"In the past thousand years, the Northern Domain has endured four Great Hunting Wars. Countless sects and clans that once stood at the height of power were wiped out in those calamities, leaving not even their bones behind. Yet the Divine Pavilion survived all four wars. It only grew stronger with each one, and it still stands today."
"Over the years, Xuan Yuan single-handedly brought every rival within the Divine Pavilion to heel. Neither his unruly fellow disciples nor the ambitious descendants of the pavilion elders could shake his position."
"And so he became the undisputed choice to lead the Divine Pavilion next. Young and old alike accept him without reservation."
"That's almost unheard of among the great powers with long histories and factions at every turn."
Zi Yan clicked her tongue inwardly.
The Great Thousand World truly was full of extraordinary people. She and Lin Ming had stood at the very pinnacle of the Dou Qi Continent, yet they had barely arrived here and had not even found their footing before hearing of so many astonishing talents.
There was the Netherworld Palace's Myriad Gu Purgatory, She Yuan's City-Devouring Bloodlust, the Monster Emperor's uncanny brilliance, and now Xuan Yuan's fearsome strength, which had placed him above every rival in the Divine Pavilion.
And these were only the younger generation in one corner of the Northern Domain.
Zi Yan soon cast the pressure from her mind.
So what if they were prodigies? So what if they had places on the Dragon-Phoenix Record? The man beside her had started as a lowly Dou Zhe in the Jia Ma Empire and risen to become the Dou Qi Continent's first Dou Di in ten thousand years. Now he had stepped into the Great Thousand World. At what point along that road had he not