The outcome of the vote was as expected.
After three rounds of voting, Wang Ping received an average of thirty-two votes for the Third Seat, placing him second. The cultivator from the Earth Cave Sect came in first with forty-three votes.
This meant that the two of them alone accounted for the majority of the votes. Among the other five candidates, the highest vote count was a mere three, which went to the cultivator from the host, Lishui Prefecture. The remaining four each received a single consolation vote.
As for the votes for the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Seats, the proportions were nearly identical to the vote for the Third Seat, as the candidates were simply retainers and disciples from the factions of the new Third Seat holders.
It had even become customary to only read aloud the vote counts for the Third Seat.
"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Changqing and Fellow Daoist He Feng..."
