"After me, the next Demon Cultivator to enter the Blood-Refinement Land..."
Half a month later, within the ancestral grounds of the Black Wind Clan in the Sky-Demon Realm, a beautiful female cultivator clad in a blue palace gown learned of Island Lord Ye's arrival.
At first, she had paid little mind to Island Lord Ye, this "mixed-blood Demon Cultivator," treating the news from her friend as nothing more than an amusing anecdote. But... upon seeing that cultivator's familiar appearance, her tranquil, waterlike eyes finally changed.
"Someone from my homeland?" The blue-gowned female cultivator narrowed her eyes slightly, a thoughtful look appearing on her lovely face.
A moment later, she rose into the air and arrived at the great hall where Island Lord Ye was attempting the trials of the Blood-Refinement Land. Without a word, like the other cultivators who had rushed over after hearing the news, she quietly took a seat in a corner of the hall.
The Blood-Refinement Land was a necessary path for outside Demon Cultivators seeking to join the Sky-Demon Realm. Its difficulty was determined by the purity of the true spirit bloodline within the Demon Cultivator undertaking the trial.
Yet regardless of whether one's bloodline was lofty or lowly, once one successfully passed the Blood-Refinement Land's assessment, one gained the qualifications to directly join any major clan in the Sky-Demon Realm and become one of that clan's core disciples.
Therefore, the cultivators who had hurried to this hall upon hearing the news were, for the most part, representatives of their respective clans. They waited for the final result of Island Lord Ye's trial before deciding whether to invite him into the faction they represented.
Of course, there were also idle spectators like the blue-gowned female cultivator, who had received no mission from their clans and had