The powers of the Cultivation World across the Mountains and Seas Five Continents each had their own distinguishing features.
The Eastern Wasteland had many sects, temples covered the Western Desert, the Northern Sea revolved around its major islands, and though Central Province nominally fell under the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, it was essentially divided among Cultivation Families of every size.
The many powers of the Southern Border, meanwhile, were mostly sects.
For example, the Heavenly Mountain True Person whom Luo Chen had known before came from the Heavenly Mountain Sect.
The Shadow Reflection Sect was the same.
From his brief contact with the Southern Border Cultivation World, Luo Chen had vaguely grasped the reason behind it.
The key lay in the word "Gu"!
Gu insects were quite mysterious. When faced with an unfamiliar Gu insect, ordinary people simply did not dare use it to aid their cultivation.
Only with trust from the bottom of one's heart would one dare let a Gu enter one's body.
Thus, the powers great and small in the Southern Border built their doctrines around all manner of strange Gu insects, guiding their followers and gradually forming countless different sects.
The Shadow Reflection Sect was no exception.
Before a palace hung two large red lanterns, while tree shadows swayed outside its doors.
Inside the hall, Luo Chen was fiddling with the Shadow Gu he had casually asked the Lantern Bearer for earlier out of curiosity.
"So that's how it is!"
"Using the Gu insect's five senses to record the general circumstances of a scene, then extracting its memories—it can preserve images and sounds."
"It is rather ingenious."
Luo Chen wore an admiring expression, but that was all it was—admiration.
It was ingenious enough, but lacked grandeur.
To cultivators, it was no more than a way to