Once the matter of the sect master was decided, all that was left was to announce this change and the merge of the Hidden Dragon Sect and the Love Sect to everyone.
But of course, they wouldn't announce this without telling those people from the Love Sect first.
Unlike the people from the Hidden Dragon Sect, Lin Fan had an actual bond with these current elders of the Love Sect, so he didn't want to keep them in the dark.
So they were invited over to the secret room where Lin Fan told them everything that had happened.
While they had their doubts, they also trusted Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao after being saved by them. So in the end, they accepted the proposal that they made and were actually quite happy to see Lin Fan take over as the sect master.
With all of this taken care of, Lin Fan gathered all the members of the Love Sect and the Hidden Dragon Sect in the Love Sect's main building.
Everyone was naturally surprised and confused at being summoned here suddenly, but they all waited for Lin Fan to make his announcement.
Even the sect master and the elders of the Hidden Dragon Sect were kept in the dark about this meeting, so they had the same confused looks on their faces as everyone else.
"I will be stepping down as the sect master and my disciple Lin Fan will take over as the new sect master."
The moment that Mu Bao Bao announced this, everyone's chin dropped down in shock and disbelief.
They turned to look at Lin Fan who was standing on the side with different expressions.
The current disciples of the Love Sect all had strange looks since they had known Lin Fan for a while and they had never been able to form a proper impression of him. He was too mysterious and they rarely interacted with him, so they couldn't understand what kind of person he was.
So they didn't really know how to feel about this news.
Even the disciples of the elders had this look on their faces since they also didn't interact with Lin Fan that much, which was strange since they were technically in the same generation as Lin Fan.
They were the disciples of the elders who were in the same generation as the previous sect master, so Lin Fan as the disciple of the previous sect master was in the same generation as them.
But the elders and the previous sect master all treated Lin Fan as someone in the same generation as them.
So they were never actually able to approach Lin Fan without feeling awkward.
As for the sect master and the elders of the Hidden Dragon Sect, they couldn't help revealing a trace of excitement on their faces.
They recognized Lin Fan as the ancestor of their Hidden Dragon Sect, that would never change regardless of what happened. After all, Lin Fan held their lives in the palm of his hands, so they wouldn't do anything crazy as going against him.
They didn't know how it had happened, but somehow their ancestor had taken over as the sect master of the Love Sect, accomplishing what they had set out to do.
That would mean that in the future, their Hidden Dragon Sect would have full access to the legacy of the Love Sect!
The Love Sect was a medium grade sect that was far above a low grade sect like theirs. So as long as they had access to the legacy of a sect like this, there was no doubt that their Hidden Dragon Sect would grow.
They were already looking forward to seeing the secret techniques of the Love Sect.
After Mu Bao Bao made her announcement, Lin Fan came up and said a few words.
He kept his speech calm and simple as he said, "I'm looking forward to working with you all in the future."
But when he said this, everyone couldn't help revealing strange looks.
No one's impression of a sect master was like this.
Normally, a sect master would give a strong speech about how they would bring the sect into a new age under their leadership.
This would inspire confidence in the sect master that would make the members of the sect willing to follow them.
But this speech that came from Lin Fan almost seemed…humble.
Still, there was nothing that they could say since most of them had already accepted him as their sect master regardless of how humble he was. He had both the experts of the Hidden Dragon Sect and the Love Sect on his side, so there was nothing that could shake his reign as the sect master.
In fact, Lin Fan was actually a bit distracted since he had been staring at his system's interface out of the corner of his eye.
Specifically, he was staring at the mission panel, looking at one of the main missions.
He was waiting to see it change to say that he had finished his mission.
But before that could happen, before this sect master ceremony could finish, there was someone that suddenly ran in.
This person came over to Yue Lan who was standing on the side and said a few words to her.
As soon as Yue Lan heard what they said, she immediately knitted her brows.
Lin Fan could see them talking from the corner of his eyes and it caught his attention, but he acted like everything was normal. That was until Yue Lan suddenly started signaling him with her eyes.
As soon as he saw this, he immediately wrapped up this ceremony and headed out with her.
He didn't even bother telling anyone the reason why he left as he just left.
The Love Sect disciples and the Hidden Dragon Sect sect master and elders were all left standing there with stunned looks on their faces.
Mu Bao Bao knew that this had to be something important, so she left the rest of this ceremony in the hands of the elders before chasing after Lin Fan.
Since the two most important people were already gone, there was nothing else left for them. Little by little, this group quickly started to scatter and soon there was no one else left in this room.
The disciples went off to train while the Hidden Dragon Sect group went back to scouting out the town.
They all knew that for Lin Fan to suddenly run off like this, it had to be something important, so no one said a thing about it.
The Hidden Dragon Sect group knew that their ancestor had to keep acting the part, so they weren't worried at all. They knew that their plot had succeeded the moment that Lin Fan had been made the sect master.
They were all just looking forward to their bright future in this town.
Not for a second did they doubt that it wasn't the true ancestor.
Lin Fan quickly followed Yue Lan to the secret room in the town hall and it didn't take long for the rest of the girls to arrive.
Once they were all here, Yue Lan said, "There's a problem."
All of them couldn't help being shocked when they heard this.
Normally, there would be plenty of things that they would need to deal with, but Yue Lan had never called them a "problem" before.
She had always been able to calmly find a solution for any troubles that they faced, so they had never been worried before. But for her to call something a "problem", it meant that this was something that was very troublesome.
So after being shocked, all of them revealed worried looks as they waited for Yue Lan to continue.
Yue Lan gave a sigh before saying, "There's a message from the central government that they want to send an envoy here to declare this place a city."
All of them were once again shocked when they heard this, but then Lin Fan asked with a confused look, "Isn't this a good thing? Isn't this what we wanted in the first place."
Yue Lan shook her head as she said, "Yes and no at the same time."
Lin Fan looked even more confused when he heard this.
Yue Lan saw that look and explained, "We're still not anywhere close to being big enough to be called a city. The fact that they want to declare us a city means that someone has set their eyes on this town."
She didn't explain any further, but it was clear what she was implying by this.
Just like the Yong Family had done last time, someone had their eyes on this town of theirs.
But as they thought about it, they realized that it wasn't as simple as before.
After all, whoever had set their eyes on their town had enough influence to use the central government to declare this town a city…
The only people that had that kind of influence were the most influential ministers or…the royal family themselves.
It wasn't even possible for the ducal families like the Yong Family to do something like this.
So this meant that they had caught the attention of the very rulers of this nation.
This was without a doubt a very big "problem".
Lin Fan deeply knitted his brows and asked, "Who is being sent here?"
Yue Lan gave a sigh and said, "It's someone under the second grade official Fu Yu…but there are rumours that Fu Yu is under the second prince…"
As expected, it really was related to the royal family…
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