The moment these words fell,
Wei Tu was slightly startled.
Back in the Purple Zenith Realm, he had heard from Lin Tianqi about how the Southern Splendor Sect had led its people in secretly crossing over to the Spirit Realm... By all rights, he should have long been prepared for He Sanyao's words and should not have been so surprised, so shocked.
But that was because... what the three words "Southern Splendor Sect" represented was far too different from the other lineages of the Purple Zenith Realm.
The Southern Splendor Sect had first been an ancient immortal sect that ascended from the human realm, and only afterward had it become a lineage of the Purple Zenith Realm!
In other words,
this sect should, in principle, have been a human race force. Its cultivators should likewise have been human cultivators, not cultivators of alien races.
Yet he—
forgive his poor eyesight, but over the past few months, he had not seen any sign that this man in scholar's robes was a human cultivator.
Though this cultivator possessed a human form, beneath his scholar's robe could still be glimpsed certain traits unlike those of the "human race"—for instance, several faintly visible scales and palms shaped like sharp claws...
"Was it because 'bathing in dragon blood' had made the human aura in his body too faint? Had he ceased to be pure-blooded? Or had the Southern Splendor Sect, after ascending as an entire sect to the Purple Zenith Realm, fully integrated into the Purple Zenith Realm and no longer remained merely a human-realm force or a human-race force?" Wei Tu looked toward the scholar-robed man, thoughts flashing endlessly through his mind.
He was more inclined toward the first conjecture.
For the scholar-robed man had first honored the agreement with the Feather Dragon Clan—transforming