Xia Qiuer's appearance changed the situation.
Qiu Ran and the Origin Immortal Palace Heir looked at Xia Qiuer and discovered that the woman before them had no fixed cultivation level. At first glance, she seemed like an Immortal Emperor; at second, a Great Emperor; by the third, a mere mortal.
With their experience, neither had ever seen a cultivator whose cultivation fluctuated so wildly.
"Are you the Imperial Court's Saintess?"
Qiu Ran asked. Xia Qiuer's peculiar condition instantly reminded him of the leader of the Imperial Alliance.
After arriving in the Thirty-Three Heavens, he had heard a few things about the Imperial Alliance, including stories of Xia Qiuer.
Xia Qiuer, disciple of the Enlightenment Ancestor Tree, daughter of the Imperial Alliance's strongest, the Imperial Lord, Saintess of the Imperial Court, and leader of the Imperial Alliance.
Beneath all those fearsome titles, what surprised Qiu Ran and the others most was that Xia Qiuer had chosen the Mortal Dao!
The Mortal Dao was exceptionally unusual. Very few cultivators had ever practiced it; throughout all of history, only a handful had even tried. Those who had successfully walked this path were rarer still.
Neither Qiu Ran nor the Origin Immortal Palace Heir had ever met one.
Xia Qiuer was the first.
Just as the ancient texts described, Xia Qiuer had no fixed cultivation level. No one knew her limits, high or low.
Both Qiu Ran and the Origin Immortal Palace Heir couldn't help but be intrigued by her.
By all rights, with Xia Qiuer's background and talent, cultivating normally would have given her a far better chance of succeeding than practicing the Mortal Dao. In fact, her rise would have been all but guaranteed.
Yet she had chosen a far harder road.
"Greetings, fellow cultivators."
Xia Qiuer was very courteous. Even though