[After completing the mission, you returned to the Holy-Sword Sect.]
[The reason you didn't destroy the Gu family after finally leaving the Holy-Sword Sect was that it would take too much time traveling, and you didn't have that much time because the selection competition for the Young Holy Lord was going to be held soon.]
[In this world where the strong prey on the weak, this competition was judged solely based on strength.]
[You decided to participate in the competition.]
[You also asked your master, Wang Sheng, why he didn't participate, and he simply said he wasn't interested in such matters.]
[But you were not like your master. You wanted to inherit both the position of Peak Master of Hidden Sword Peak and become the Holy Lord, so that you could gain more resources to upgrade the system.]
[In this competition, many people from all the peaks of the Holy-Sword Sect would participate, and the final winner would become the Young Holy Lord. With this title, his peak would become the main peak of the entire Holy-Sword Sect.]
[The timespan of every Holy Lord was 500 years, and the current Holy Lord was nearing the end of his term.]
[From your master, you also learned that in terms of actual talent, very few could rival you, but there were still many old geniuses who had been waiting for this chance for over 400 years. They were your biggest obstacle in becoming the Holy Lord.]
[Your master also said that you didn't have much hope in this competition, so you shouldn't take it seriously.]
[Hearing your master's instructions, you agreed with him.]
[After all, those who had cultivated for more than 400 years—how could their cultivation be weak? At that, they were all top geniuses of their generation.]
[Even if your talent was top-notch in the entire Holy-Sword Sect, you didn't have as much practice time as they did, and you also had little hope of winning the competition.]
[But how could you let such a rare occasion pass by without competing against the geniuses of the earlier generation to increase your experience?]
[So you also participated in the competition.]
[You ranked 2998 in the entire competition and were ultimately defeated by a Void-Refining cultivator of the Holy-Sword Sect.]
[The son of the Holy Lord, Ji Wushuang, a peak Void-Refining Realm cultivator, emerged victorious in the competition.]
[It was already a very good achievement for you to rank 2998 with only your Foundation-Building Realm cultivation.]
[It was not that Ji Wushuang would definitely become the Holy Lord; there were still many chances for others to challenge him until one successfully defeated him and inherited the position as the Young Holy Lord.]
[You still had many chances ahead.]
[In the 12th year, you reached the peak of the Foundation-Building Realm and completed your seventh turn. It was much, much more difficult than the earlier turns. You were severely injured and began to recuperate.]
[Meanwhile, in the Blood-Sword Sect, Mo Jian Peak…]
[A sound that broke Heaven and Earth resounded inside Mo Jian Peak:]
"HAHAHAHA, DISCIPLE, YOU HAVE DONE IT! YOU HAVE CONDENSED THE NINE-TURN SUPREME FOUNDATION, INVINCIBLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD! HAHAHAH!"