Inside Peacock King's small world, the people who had been fighting moments ago now sat together.
Ye Fan looked at Daoist Master Huiming, who had turned from guest to host, then at the Ji Family Holy Master, Peacock King, and Azure Flood Dragon King seated on either side and chatting merrily with the Daoist master. He could only feel that this world was far too bizarre.
No, it was not the world that was bizarre. This world had always revered strength above all else!
Ye Fan knew that all these changes stemmed from Daoist Master Huiming's overwhelming strength—strength great enough to instantly kill the Shimmering Light Holy Master...
"What are you thinking about?"
Adam's call brought Ye Fan back to his senses.
"Nothing. I've merely gained a deeper understanding of the nature of this cultivation world."
Those lofty experts were, at their core, no different from cultivators of the Wheel Sea Dao Palace Realm, or even ordinary people on Earth.
They flattered the powerful, trampled the weak, bullied the weak, and feared the strong...
As he spoke, Ye Fan looked toward Daoist Master Huiming.
In such a short time apart, he had leaped an entire secret realm in cultivation and somehow acquired an imperial weapon... Or perhaps the Daoist master had already possessed an imperial weapon before?
"The world is just one giant ramshackle troupe. There's nothing wrong with recognizing that sooner rather than later... Aren't you going to talk to your father-in-law? He's about to leave."
"He isn't..."
Ye Fan instinctively tried to refute him, only to see Daoist Master Huiming cast him a smiling, knowing glance.
"Oh? There's really nothing between you and that girl Ji Ziyue?"
"..."
Ye Fan blinked and shifted his gaze away with a touch of guilt.
"If you're worried about family background, as