"What did you say? Then you mean I'm the fake one?" My expression suddenly turned cold.
"Little friend, don't be hasty. Hear me out." Venerable Jadeclear Immortal stroked his beard with a smile, then looked toward Xia Ruize and said, "If that person resembles you, why haven't you considered that he might share even more similarities with that other person?"
"What?!" I was shaken to my core. Venerable Immortal Azureclear also turned his gaze toward Xia Ruize, then finally back to me. "I see no difference. All of us are existences approaching the root of the Great Dao. Senior Brother Jadeclear, do I not resemble them as well?"
Aside from the hint of dark red in Venerable Immortal Azureclear's beard and hair, his appearance did bear a slight resemblance to mine and Xia Ruize's. Looking at it this way, even Jadeclear and Grandclear resembled one another. No wonder the divine statues on Earth looked similar. It seemed that those claims weren't entirely baseless nonsense after all.
"The root of the Great Dao produces a single lineage, and countless people throughout the world resemble one another. We are all images of the Primordial Ancestor Immortal. The only difference is who resembles him more. The closer one is to the Great Dao, the closer one is to the Primordial Ancestor Immortal. What problem is there with that? However, our true forms are all different and cannot be lumped together." Venerable Immortal Jadeclear chuckled.
Xia Ruize had clearly fallen into deep thought because of this, but I shook my head and said, "This isn't the time to recognize relatives and ancestors. If I can't save Jiu'er, I won't rest even if I pierce the heavens!"
"That goes without saying. However, perhaps we can't save her by relying on outside forces, but there must