C96 The Competition in the Ordeal Hall Began

Gervais, beaming with pride, advanced through the throng of disciples surrounding him.

He had recently aced the assessment, ascending from a mere disciple to a deacon within the Outer Sect and embarking on the sect's bureaucratic ladder.

Pausing at the head of the group, he flashed a grin at a strapping young man in his early twenties and quipped, "Leon