"Such a huge thing happened—why didn't you ask anyone for help?"
Unable to hold it back, Qin Shaofeng voiced the doubt in his heart.
The moment he said that, three snorts of laughter rang out at once.
Other than Little Xu'er, Miao Woman and the other two looked at him as though they were looking at a fool.
Little Xu'er explained, "You've been in the Boundless Starry Sky for too short a time. You know far too little about it. The Boundless Starry Sky indeed has seven powers coexisting, or eight now, but there are only truly three powers."
"Which three?" Qin Shaofeng asked.
"The overlord's imperial clan stands eternal through countless ages; Water Overflowing Mountain breeds generation after generation of prodigies; the River of Time flows without end through endless time," Little Xu'er explained.
Her words sounded like an unclear doggerel verse, yet Qin Shaofeng immediately understood.
It really did seem that only those three could be considered powers.
The Governor's Mansion was indeed powerful, but it was only a Lineage.
Sword Tomb was more like a secluded refuge hidden from the world. Though these past generations might have undergone some changes in mentality, that might not be unrelated to the so-called seven great powers.
As for White Peak Mountain...
What a joke. With only an uncle and nephew, not even servants or subordinates, what right did it have to call itself a power?
Miao Territory was more like an ethnic group than a power.
"Everything in the Boundless Starry Sky can change, except those three powers. And once those Ghost Cultivators are truly discovered by outsiders, the most likely thing the Boundless Emperor will do will not be to help Miao Territory resist them."
"He would be even more likely to cooperate with the stronger Ghost Cultivators. Even