As soon as these words fell, the Mist Ghost Clan elder who heard them first froze, then widened his eyes and stared at Wei Tu in utter disbelief.
The emissaries of the various races and factions who had come bearing congratulatory gifts were likewise struck dumb, their faces filled with astonishment and disbelief.
There was no other reason—the Feather Dragon Clan was an overlord faction of absolute authority among the myriad races of the Spirit Realm.
Leave aside showing up to support someone or rushing to congratulate another's "Body Integration Ceremony"; even the threshold of their clan was not something ordinary factions could step across.
And these "ordinary factions" included the Mist Ghost Clan, which had only risen to prominence in the past ten thousand years.
Previously, it had merely been a local tyrant occupying one corner of the Spirit Realm, a regional faction. Only after its ancestor, Old Ghost Pei, broke through to the Mahayana Realm did it leap into the ranks of powerful races comparable to the Ten Spirit Clans.
But... it was only "comparable"!
In terms of heritage and foundations, the Mist Ghost Clan could not be mentioned in the same breath as any one of the Ten Spirit Clans.
Lacking such foundations, its connections naturally could not extend beyond the Ten Spirit Clans and reach the Feather Dragon Clan, one of the three great hegemonic races of the Spirit Realm.
Moreover, most crucially, Wei Tu was not an ordinary Feather Dragon Clan cultivator at present, but the disciple of a Mahayana Immortal within the Feather Dragon Clan!
"Purple Chi Lord's reputation is indeed formidable, but I... have never heard that he had a disciple named Lin Tianqi?"
Very quickly, some Body Integration Cultivators came to their senses and secretly cast doubt upon Wei Tu's identity.
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