Blood Demon True Person's confidence had not come from nowhere; it had its reasons.
In truth, even outside the Sacred Sect, if any sect, great or small, produced a Great True Person at Foundation Establishment Late Stage, it would be a heaven-shaking, earth-overturning change.
Because Great True Persons had hope of Golden Seeking.
Even if that hope was pitifully low, nearly nonexistent, it was still a sliver of hope. And even a single thread was enough to make people take it seriously.
Therefore, Great True Persons generally met one of three outcomes. The first was that the Fruit Position indicated by their Dao Foundation was vacant and not controlled by the Four Major Powers. Such people were the most carefree, but they also had no one to rely on. Without backing, they were instead the most likely to fail at Golden Seeking.
The second was being born into a renowned great sect.
For instance, True Person Chongguang's desired Fruit Position lay within the Sacred Sect, and he had the Sacred Sect's True Lords supporting him. He belonged to the group with the greatest hope of Golden Seeking.
The third was when someone already occupied the Fruit Position.
Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou were both like this. One had his Fruit Position attained by someone else ahead of time, while the other's Fruit Position was controlled by the Pure Land, which allowed no one else to attain it.
In such circumstances, one was basically finished.
Great True Persons who fell into such a predicament either were directly killed by the True Lord occupying the Fruit Position, or gave up Golden Seeking and were absorbed by that True Lord.
Patriarch Tingyou was the former.
Blood Demon True Person was the latter.
That was right. Blood Demon True Person had also attained Covered