Take the initiative to ask: "What is the purpose of the fourth elder's visit?"
"I want to ask you, which mountain and peak are you a disciple of now?
Who is your artistic mentor?
How long have you been practicing?"
Xiao Tong said.
Ye Ming responded: "Reporting to the Fourth Elder, I am not a disciple of any mountain or peak, but a disciple of Shougu, responsible for guarding the Immortal Valley.
I have been practicing for almost thirty years, and my current mentor is Master Xu Shangxu, a prefecture-level disciple of Huang Pinggu."
"oh?
is that so?"
The fourth elder looked surprised.
It seemed that he was a little surprised by Ye Ming's background.
Maybe it's because both his identity as a disciple of Moriya and his mentor are somewhat inconsistent with the performance of a super genius.
It makes people wonder how he could cultivate to such a high level with these factors and show his extraordinary talent.
While the fourth elder felt surprised and strange, he couldn't help but feel happy.
He smiled and said: "So, Xiao Duan, your current mentor is no longer suitable for you, and his strength is not enough to guide you to move forward.
Have you ever considered finding a new mentor?"
Ye Ming said hurriedly: "The disciple's achievements today are all due to the teachings of his mentor, so how can he accept someone else as his master?
Moreover, I feel that there is still a lot worth learning from my mentor."
Xiao Tong chuckled and said: "Xiao Duan, it is really good for you to have such a good character of respecting teachers and teachings.
However, if you delay your own development because you attach too much importance to emotions, then the gains outweigh the losses.
Unless you want to stay at the prefectural level for the rest of your life and never make progress.
What's more, when you become a disciple of the Heavenly Formation, or even a disciple of the Immortal Formation, even if you don't want to become another teacher, you won't be able to do so.
Moreover, it does not mean that if you become a new mentor, you will have to sever ties with your previous mentor.
You were masters and disciples before, and you will be masters and disciples for the rest of your lives.
This will not change just because I worship another teacher.
When I say this, you should understand, right?"
"This...disciple understands."
Ye Ming responded.
"Now that you understand, let me ask you, are you willing to join my sect and become my disciple?"
Xiao Tong asked.
It seems that this is the purpose of his trip to find Ye Ming in person.
Ye Ming seemed to be shocked by Xiao Tong's words.
Stunned on the spot.
Xiao Tong saw Ye Ming's reaction in his eyes.
Smile.
In his opinion, if he, the Fourth Elder, was presented with the perfect opportunity to take the initiative to become a disciple for the first term, as long as he was not a fool, he would definitely agree immediately.
And the Duan Tiancheng in front of him, since he is a super genius, will he be a fool?
Therefore, Duan Tiancheng would definitely become ecstatic at this time and agree immediately.
However, what Xiao Tong never expected was that Duan Tiancheng's face in front of him showed a look of surprise and surprise at first, but soon returned to calm.
Then he said to him: "Fourth Elder, thanks to your respect, you are willing to accept me as my disciple. Of course, I am very willing to do this. However, it is currently the time for the Heavenly Formation Competition, and the results of the competition have not been announced yet. I would like to thank you at this time.
Is there something wrong with being a teacher?"
Faced with Duan Tiancheng's reaction, Xiao Tong was quite surprised, but he still didn't feel dissatisfied. Instead, he admired Duan Tiancheng even more and looked at him more favorably.
He smiled and said, "What's wrong with this?
That's right! Logically speaking, it is indeed not suitable to accept disciples during the Great Competition.
But what I mean is not that I need you to formally become a disciple now, but that I only need you to give me a clear answer.
In this way, when the competition is over, I can officially accept you as my disciple!"
"This..." Ye Ming looked hesitant.
Xiao Tong frowned slightly.
I began to feel dissatisfied with Tiancheng's hesitation.
As a high-ranking fourth elder, he had already taken the initiative to find Duan Tiancheng and offered to accept him as a disciple. He had even arranged the time for accepting him as a disciple. Such preferential treatment has only been enjoyed by a few people so far.
, Duan Tiancheng should feel extremely honored.
But Duan Tiancheng had hesitated once before when faced with such preferential treatment, and now he was hesitant again. What does this mean?
Do you look down on yourself, the Fourth Elder?
Do you disdain yourself as your teacher?
However, Xiao Tong certainly would not really think that Duan Tiancheng looked down on him, the fourth elder.
Although I was dissatisfied, I still didn't get angry because of it.
Instead, he continued to say with a smile: "Xiao Duan, I'm afraid you are still thinking about gaining higher honors by being promoted to a disciple of the Heavenly Formation, or even a disciple of the Immortal Formation, and receiving greater attention from the master, so that you can become a disciple of a more powerful person.
,Would you like to be his disciple?"
"That's right, with your strength, the disciples of the Heavenly Formation are already within your grasp, but the disciples of the Immortal Formation... I don't expect you to win this spot."
"Because of this Heavenly Formation Competition, there are so many masters and geniuses.
There are many geniuses with much greater strength and potential than you.
They have a better chance of winning the spot as a disciple of the Immortal Formation than you."
"Even these genius disciples have long been spotted by the elders, and like you and me now, they have already secretly agreed to worship these elders as their teachers.
We only need to wait until the quota of Immortal Formation disciples is released, and then we can officially become a disciple!"
"Because of this, you should be able to imagine that these elders must hope that the disciples they have already appointed can shine in the Heavenly Formation Competition.
In this way, after they formally become disciples, they can also gain some brilliance.
Therefore, they had secretly given many good things to these talented disciples before.
This virtually enhanced the morale and strength of these talented disciples.
In this case, you want to beat them in the competition.
The difficulty has been increased a lot.
There is even less hope of being promoted to a disciple of the Immortal Formation."
"But if you can't be promoted to a disciple of the Immortal Formation and can only win the spot of a disciple of the Heavenly Formation, then it's hard to say that you can win the attention of other elders.
It can even be said that basically no elder will take a fancy to you."
"So, Xiao Duan, do you hope that the situation I mentioned will happen and you will end up missing all the opportunities to become apprentices to the elders?
Or do you want to cherish this rare opportunity now and agree to become my disciple?"
Listening to Xiao Tong's long speech, Ye Ming finally no longer hesitated this time, but nodded decisively and said: "Okay, Fourth Elder, the disciple agreed."
"Very good! Haha!"
Xiao Tong laughed heartily.
He looked very happy.
He then said to Ye Ming: "In that case, when the competition ends, I will officially accept you as a disciple! And as I said before, other elders have given treasures in advance to the scheduled genius disciples.
Give them a helping hand, and now, as a master, I will not be stingy!"