The onlooking disciples could only smile wryly, wishing that they were in Severin’s shoes. It was the


    peak masters’ offers that startled them the most. While the disciples were still grappling with the shock


    of finding out what happened, the nine peak masters wrestled for Severin’s coveted favor. After all, his


    rise to seventh-grade alchemist had sent shockwaves throughout the sect.


    Danie, the Sixth Mountain’s peak master and a renowned alchemist, had spent decades trying to go


    from sixth-grade high-rank to seventh-grade. Severin, however, achieved it in just over half a year!


    His prodigious talent more than deserved the attention of all the peak masters, and his youth was


    hinted at the potential for him to reach even greater heights, perhaps even bing an eighth-grade


    alchemist in the future. Such an person wouldmand the respect of even royal paragons, for the


    benefits to be gained from an eight- grade alchemist was simply too great. Thus, everyone valued the


    achievements he made in addition to the prospects of his future promise.


    By contrast, his rise to level nine supreme saint-while impressive in and of itself-did not spark the same


    excitement. Three of the five core disciples had already attained paragonhood, so Severin’s


    achievement was less shocking I that sense.


    Severin felt bewildered as he faced the bickering peak masters, as he never imagined his


    advancement would trigger such a frenzy. As he was pondering over how best to respond to them, a


    thick fog of


    purple energy swirled in the sky and carried with it the power of heaven and earth. From its depths


    emerged a figure surrounded in the same purple fog.


    It was none other than Oskar, the Grandiuno Sect’s leader. His arrival anchoce greeted him.


    “Greetings, Sect Leader!”


    Oskar red at them with a gravely disappointed expression. “Must such esteemed paragons like


    yourselves squabble over a seventh- grade alchemist?”


    His expression softened somewhat as he turned to Severin. “Not bad. You’ve sessfully be a


    seventh-grade alchemist, it seems.”


    Severin chuckled. “I was just lucky.”


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    Oskar reached into his robes and retrieved a green token. He tossed it to Severin and said, “Since


    you’ve now reached seventh-grade, I shall appoint you an elder of the Alchemy Chamber. I trust that is


    eptable for you.”


    The peak masters gasped in surprise.


    “What?!”


    They had all offered positions as prestigious as that of elder and deputy peak master to Severin, only


    for Oskar to one-up them by granting Severin the esteemed role of Alchemy Chamber elder! The


    position held immense power, as he was to oversee the entire sect’s pill allocations and resources.


    That would bestow a status on par with that of sect elders.


    Moreover, the Alchemy Chamber’s elder was traditionally never selected from a disciple like Severin.


    Such a position was reserved for the most skilled alchemist within the sect elders, and even then, it


    was only bestowed after the sect tournament to whichever elder who had the best talent in alchemy.


    Oskar looked at the astonished people and asked, “Do any of you object?”


    Danie and the others hurriedly shook their heads. “No! No objections!”