Chapter 62: The Successor to the Mantle
After the handover between Ning Lingge and Cihang Zhenren was completed, he officially resigned from the position of the head of Tiangang Hall, and only retained the identity of the real person. However, as long as there is still the identity of this Reference Zhenren, he is still one of the thirty-six people second only to the three deputy head of the Great True Sect and several Pingzhang Great True People, and it is not difficult to make a comeback.
After Cihang Zhenren officially assumed the position of the head of Tiangang Hall, he did not reappoint a new deputy hall master, but replaced the original eighth deputy hall master with the seventh deputy hall master, not even a flat transfer, his subordinates were still the original subordinates, but they changed their names.
Because of the battle of Cuowenbu, not only Shangguan Jing died in battle, but also the Taoist priests and spiritual officials under his command also suffered heavy casualties, and they were no longer an establishment.
Cihang Zhenren simply incorporated Shangguan Jing's old department into the Shaking Light Division under Zhang Yuelu's name, and let Zhang Yuelu be replaced as the eighth deputy hall master, and the ninth deputy hall master was vacant.
In this way, although Zhang Yuelu is still ranked last among the many deputy hall masters, if the ninth deputy hall master is appointed again, it will be ranked after Zhang Yuelu. And in this way, there is no need to configure a special spiritual officer for Zhang Yuelu, so that Zhang Yuelu suddenly becomes the deputy hall master with real power, instead of the previous showcase.
Everyone knows that Cihang Zhenren is paving the way for his disciples, but no one can say anything. After all, Zhang Yuelu was still ranked last, and he didn't cross in front of anyone, and then there was that before Zhang Yuelu was named by the earth master to become the ninth deputy hall master, Tiangang Hall was the eighth deputy hall master, and now it is equivalent to returning to the original pattern.
However, Zhang Yuelu's promotion speed is really enviable, and he has only been promoted to deputy hall master for less than a year, and he has moved forward by one place. At this rate, in another ten years, he should be the chief deputy hall master, which is a high position that can only be held by a second-grade Taiyi Taoist, and there is only one step left before the real person is involved.
This move also confirmed, in a sense, Zhang Yuelu's status as the orthodox successor of Cihang.
You must know that Cihang Zhenren not only has one disciple of Zhang Yuelu, Zhang Yuelu also has a senior sister and a junior sister, but there is only one position of Cihang Zhenren, who can inherit her mantle, resources, connections, and status, but also depends on Cihang Zhenren's own meaning.
Since ancient times, the "establishment of reserves" has been a major event, and only by having successors can we stabilize people's hearts. In the past, the battle for the Great Palm Sect had not yet entered the white heat, so this matter could naturally be ignored for the time being, but now that Cihang Zhenren has personally ended, he can't help but mention it.
In the same way, Qingwei Zhenren and Donghua Zhenren also launched their own heirs, which is also the same idea.
Because of this, Qingping will launch the Ruyi List at this critical juncture, so that Li Changge and Yao Pei, two people whose reputations were not obvious in the past, surfaced, and the deep meaning is intriguing, and it is difficult to say that there is no intention to add fuel to the fire.
Cihang Zhenren's selection of Zhang Yuelu as his heir is obviously due to many considerations, age is undoubtedly a very important factor, too old to be, too young to become.
If it is too close to Cihang Zhenren's age, for example, Zhang Yuelu's senior sisters are more than ten years different from Cihang Zhenren, and when they were young, the thirty-year-old woman and the teenage girl were still twice as old. When they are old, the ninety-year-old man and the seventy-year-old man, this age difference is nothing, and when Cihang Zhenren retires, they are also dying of old age, and they will not be able to take over the mantle, and the three deputy masters of the Great Sect and several other Pingzhang Masters have all withdrawn from the Great Palm Sect to compete for the same reason.
If the age difference with Cihang Zhenren is too big, such as Zhang Yuelu's junior sisters, who are still ten-year-old children, they will lose ten years, and they are too young to be able to walk to the right position at the right time.
Only Zhang Yuelu is at the right age, and if this trend continues, a second-grade real person in his early thirties and a forty-year-old Shenzhi real person will inevitably be a strong contender for the throne of the Great Palm Sect. Others can only say that the times are not good, and they can't blame others.
Then there is the background, Cihang Zhenren does not deny that some people can ascend to the throne of the Great Palm Sect without relying on their family background, such as the Five Generations of Great Palm Sect, but such a transcendent person cannot be judged by common sense. The six generations of the Great Palm Sect are also from ordinary backgrounds, and they also ascended to the throne of the Great Palm Sect by chance, but they have become an empty shelf.
Most people still consider the help or influence of the family background behind it.
Zhang Yuelu is from the Zhang family, so there is no need to say more, the key is that he is blue-eyed by the local teacher.
Zhang Yuelu has two great learnings, one is the "Cihang Pudu Sword Codex", which was taught to her by Cihang Zhenren, and the other is the "Six Void Tribulations", Cihang Zhenren does not know this kind of means, that is the secret of the earth's master's lineage, but Zhang Yuelu learned it, and it is undoubtedly taught by the earth's master. From this point of view, Zhang Yuelu also has some master-apprentice fate with the earth master, she said that if she is forced to go to the Quanzhen Dao, it is angry words, but not lies.
If Zhang Yuelu can become the Great Palm Sect, then the Quanzhen Dao will most likely not be fiercely opposed.
A more critical point is that Zhang Yuelu is willing to do things.
Li Changge, Yao Pei and others are certainly not good, capable, and have backgrounds, but they don't come out to do things, they just want to promote them, and they have no reason, so they are still five-grade Taoist priests, that is, alternate sacrificial wine.
Looking at Zhang Yuelu's posture, it is not far from the Sanpin Youyi Taoist.
As Ning Lingge said, there has never been a shortage of speculative people in the Dao Sect, they have no ability to compete for the Great Sect, but they want to follow the right person and ask for a meritorious service. Some people saw that it was difficult to count on the election of the Seventh Generation Great Palm Sect this time, so they hit the idea to the candidate of the Eighth Generation Great Palm Sect in advance.
The candidates of Sandao are already very clear, but they are also beginning to see the beginning. In terms of age, qualifications, and background, they are Zhang Yuelu of Zhengyi, Li Changge of Taiping Dao, and Yao Pei of Quanzhen Dao.
Among the three, Li Changge has the highest cultivation, but Zhang Yuelu has the most abundant resume. Although there are differences between the three paths, between the three paths, there is also you and me, and I have you, and the people of the Taiping Dao may not support the Taiping Dao wholeheartedly, and in the same way, the same is true for the Zhengyi and the Quanzhen Dao. Zhang Yuelu's experience of slowly climbing in the Nine Halls will make her have many more colleagues, old departments, bosses, and friends, they may not be the same people, but they have a close relationship with Zhang Yuelu, and after decades of accumulation, it is like a big net finely woven, this is a huge energy, which can not be suppressed by a high cultivation.
Therefore, many people are very optimistic about Zhang Yuelu and have begun to prepare to move closer to Zhang Yuelu.
This undoubtedly raised Zhang Yuelu's momentum, and made Zhang Yuelu's status invisibly rise a lot, and within Tiangang Hall, even the top-ranked deputy hall masters did not dare to underestimate this junior of the later ranks.
At this time, the Zhang family no longer urged Zhang Yuelu's marriage.
If Zhang Yuelu can really reach the status of Cihang Zhenren today, marriage is absolutely not feasible, and it must be a recruitment.
Tan Taiqiong even joked with Zhang Yuyue in private, thanks to Qi Xuansu, if she really made a marriage with the Yan family, she would regret it at this time.
After all, no one expected that Cihang Zhenren would be the real person of Tiangangtang, and under a series of reactions, Zhang Yuelu would surface in advance and determine the identity of Cihang's real heir.
After all, in the past, there was still a feeling of clouds and fog, except for Zhang Yuelu's own firm determination to compete for the Great Palm Sect, everyone else was not sure whether Zhang Yuelu could compete for the position of the Great Palm Sect, but they just felt that she would definitely be able to become an ordinary real person, as for the real person, it depended on some luck.
Who would have thought.
At this time, Qi Xuansu didn't know that the difficulty of marrying Zhang Yuelu was raised by another section, which was no longer a problem that could be solved by a second-grade real person.