The Grand Sky Palace conference concluded with great success, and everyone, including the Sect Master, unanimously agreed to appoint Chu Xinghe as the chief planner for this Millennium Grand Festival.
Even the Deputy Sect Master didn't stir up any trouble this time.
After all, this is the Millennium Grand Festival.
I, Yan Shoujing, am just unlucky, not out of my mind. If I dared to mess around now, Wu Xingyun wouldn't even need anyone else to take action; he could take me down himself.
During the festival, both the righteous and evil sides cease all hostilities, and even the biggest issues must wait until the festival ends.
It's not like no one has ever tried to act recklessly before.
Once the festival ended, they were hunted by both sides... and met a miserable end.
So Yan Shoujing knows that no matter how much he desires the sect's destruction, during the festival, he can only quietly remain as the Deputy Sect Master of the Grand Sky Sect.
I wonder if Wu Xingyun will bring Little Cui'er to the Grand Sky Sect for the festival this time...
It's been almost two hundred days since I last thought of Cui'er...The news of the Grand Sky Sect choosing Chu Xinghe as the planner for this Millennium Grand Festival quickly spread.
With this news, the world was abuzz.
First, the smaller sects were stunned to hear that the Grand Sky Sect had appointed a disciple as the chief planner.
"Is the Grand Sky Sect crazy? Letting Chu Xinghe be the planner?"
"Yeah... How old is Chu Xinghe anyway? If he plans this, won't the Millennium Grand Festival be a mess?"
"You don't understand... It's likely that Chu Xinghe is just a figurehead... There are probably other elders behind the scenes. The Grand Sky Sect wants to make Chu Xinghe famous..."
"This is the Millennium Grand Festival. Even if the Great Elder doesn't step in, it should at least be a heavyweight elder, right?"
"Isn't the Grand Sky Sect being a bit disrespectful to the Millennium Grand Festival?"
These small sects lack insight, and many have only heard of Chu Xinghe's reputation without ever seeing him.
Many small sects even think that the Grand Sky Sect is deliberately trying to make Chu Xinghe famous, with other elders secretly planning everything, and Chu Xinghe is just a nominal figurehead!
The major sects across the world were speechless at the thoughts of these small sects.
They say small sects lack capability and insight.
Trying to make Chu Xinghe famous?
What are you thinking? Is this about fame?
A hundred years ago, the Cloud Soar Sect organized the Nine Hundred Year Grand Festival, which was grand, but what was the result?
The Great Elder of the Cloud Soar Sect, Ling Su, who was the chief planner, was criticized so harshly that even someone as shameless as Ling Su almost became reclusive.
There are so many people in the world.
No matter how well you organize the festival, there will always be people who criticize it, and from their perspective, their criticisms are valid, and you can't refute them.
So when the Grand Sky Sect chose Chu Xinghe as the chief planner, anyone with some understanding of the festival knew that it was definitely not about making Chu Xinghe famous with other elders secretly planning everything.
If the Grand Sky Sect says Chu Xinghe is the chief planner, then Chu Xinghe is indeed planning everything.
What? The small sects say Chu Xinghe, a disciple, has no qualifications?
What do they know?
They haven't even seen Chu Xinghe, so how can they understand his abilities?
Any major sect that knows what Chu Xinghe has done in the past two years has no objections to the Grand Sky Sect choosing him as the chief planner for the Millennium Grand Festival.
At least in terms of ability, no one thinks Chu Xinghe lacks the qualifications just because he's a young disciple.
What has Chu Xinghe done in these two years?
Every move he makes shakes the world.
Every move he makes changes the world's landscape.
Someone who can treat the world as his chessboard and move freely—if he doesn't have the qualifications, who does?
But aside from qualifications and abilities, the major sects also think the Grand Sky Sect is crazy.
What... is your Grand Sky Sect always this reckless?
Aren't you afraid that after the Millennium Grand Festival, Chu Xinghe will be criticized so harshly that he'll become reclusive or even fall?
There are stories of young geniuses being destroyed by public opinion.
Public opinion can truly destroy a person.
So having Chu Xinghe as the chief planner might ruin him.
Even outsiders are puzzled, and even Zheng Yu, the idea king, can't understand why Senior Brother Xinghe would take on this chief planner role.
If it were Martial Emperor City hosting, Zheng Yu would never step up, because while it seems like a chance to gain fame, it's also a chance to be harshly criticized.
His master and the elders would never agree to let him be the chief planner.
So what is Senior Brother Xinghe planning?
Senior Brother Xinghe, I, Zheng Yu, can't see through you at all...
Apart from Zheng Yu, the other top ten forces in the world also had a big question mark regarding the Grand Sky Sect letting Chu Xinghe be the chief planner.
Aren't you afraid Chu Xinghe will be criticized to the point of falling? Aren't you cherishing Chu Xinghe too little?
We all dream of having a Chu Xinghe, and you're just letting him go like this?
Even as an outsider, I feel bad for Xinghe...
In the Grand Sky Sect, Chu Xinghe didn't know if the outside world felt bad for him, as he was discussing various matters of the festival with Senior Brother Feng Fei.
Senior Brother Feng Fei had just detailed the previous ten festivals.
"Wait, Senior Brother Feng Fei, wasn't it nine times? How is it ten?" Ma Liang, who had somehow snuck in, looked confused when he heard Senior Brother Feng say ten times.
To Ma Liang's confusion, Senior Brother Feng Fei gave him a look as if he were an idiot and suggested that Ma Liang should learn some arithmetic instead of just cultivating.
Damn it, the first festival was held after the war, then every hundred years, so the first hundred years was the second time, right?
Nine hundred years, nine times, plus the first one after the war, makes ten, right?
Ma Liang suddenly understood... Is it really that amazing?
Senior Brother Feng Fei found all the records of the ten festivals and personally recounted the events of each one.
The first festival after the war was the simplest, as although the human race won, it was a pyrrhic victory, and the war with the evil spirits left the Blazing Sun Continent in ruins, even halving the spiritual energy.
Countless strong ones fell, so the first festival had to be simple.
The hundred-year festival after that was hosted by Martial Emperor City, and at that time, the Grand Sky Sect was far from being powerful.
Each subsequent festival became grander over time.
Until a hundred years ago, the Cloud Soar Sect hosted the Nine Hundred Year Grand Festival, creating the largest event in history, which propelled the Cloud Soar Sect to become the third most powerful sect today.
Of course, besides the Cloud Soar Sect's success, there were also some stingy hosts who didn't accomplish much.
But these are irrelevant to Chu Xinghe, who aims for grandeur, so why listen to those stingy ones?
Chu Xinghe then asked Senior Brother Feng Fei to elaborate on what the Cloud Soar Sect did for the festival a hundred years ago.
But upon hearing it, he was truly shocked!
What? The Cloud Soar Sect invited a million people to gather for an unprecedented festival?
Senior Brother Feng, you call gathering a million people a grand event?
Senior Brother Feng, aren't you being too conservative?
Isn't this festival about the entire Blazing Sun Continent?
So can a million people represent the entire continent?
Are you kidding me?
If our Grand Sky Sect could accommodate it, I'd even want to invite everyone in the world!
So there's no need to listen to what the Cloud Soar Sect did, because following their plan would cost just a little money.
People might think our Grand Sky Sect is as poor as the Cloud Soar Sect.
So Chu Xinghe discarded all previous festival records, as they were useless to him.
These ten festivals, even the largest one by the Cloud Soar Sect, cost just a little money.
Is that the style of the Grand Sky Sect?
If we're going to do it, it must be unprecedented and unparalleled.
And planning the Millennium Grand Festival based on those records would still just be a ceremony.
No matter how grand a ceremony is, how much can it cost?
So Chu Xinghe knew he needed to overturn all previous festival content and create something unprecedented.
Soon, Chu Xinghe proposed his first idea.
Since the Millennium Grand Festival involves the entire Blazing Sun Continent, why invite just a million people? Even if we invite ten million, what about the rest?
Wouldn't that be disrespectful to those left out?
So my idea is, since this involves the entire continent, everyone should participate!
Before Feng Fei could speak, Ma Liang was already dumbfounded.
With Ma Liang's arithmetic skills, he couldn't calculate how many people there are in the world, and how could so many people fit into the Grand Sky Sect? Even if it expanded tenfold, it couldn't accommodate everyone, right?
Feng Fei also had a big question mark.
Junior Brother Xinghe, do you hear what you're saying...
Letting everyone in the world participate in the Millennium Grand Festival is impossible, okay?
How could our Grand Sky Sect accommodate so many people?
But as Feng Fei and Ma Liang were left speechless, Chu Xinghe revealed his idea, leaving both of them stunned...
They both had only one thought... Damn! Is this even possible?