Luo Chen's journey through Southern Heaven was no spur-of-the-moment whim.
Ever since he learned that the Dao Sect's territory had split into three, a vague idea had taken shape in his mind.
More importantly, this continent might hold something he needed!
Of course, it was also worth learning how the forces on the Southern Heaven Continent were arranged. That knowledge would help his clone rise in the future.
After leaving White Egret Marsh, Luo Chen traveled north from the south at an unhurried pace.
Along the way, he refined the Crimson Sky Sword Qi while Little White roamed outside, gathering information for him.
The depth of the Heaven Origin Dao Sect's foundations was beyond most people's imagination. It had fought wars on every front, suffered the calamity of the Demon Phoenix, and split into three, yet the strength it displayed on the Southern Heaven Continent remained formidable.
Two Great Houses stood at the top!
The Zhan Family had the Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator Zhan Bingtao holding the fort. As for the Mo Family, descended from Sect Master Mo ShouZhuo's line, it had somehow nurtured two more Nascent Soul True Persons in a mere dozen or so years!
Together with the capable family head Mo Shengxing, they had stabilized the situation.
The backbone of its strength consisted of Nascent Soul Families formed by Heaven Origin's Aristocratic Families and former Star Gate Guest Elders.
That backbone was no weak thing. By Little White's count, it alone included around a dozen Nascent Soul True Persons.
Add the True Persons of the two Great Houses, and the Southern Heaven Continent had roughly twenty Nascent Soul experts!
That number would have been nothing beside the Heaven Origin Dao Sect at its peak.
But under present circumstances, it was an impressive force.
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