Who Is the Cuckoo? Who Wears the Mask?

Only then did Wang Qi realize that, in the eyes of the other Exiled Immortals, his image was actually rather lofty and impressive.

The Dao Seed Award, the Daoist Artifact Award, and several other awards of the same rank were all specifically meant to reward the Immortal Alliance's most outstanding young cultivators. Whether an award recipient could break through the Heavenly Barrier was no longer even a question. Any cultivator who received one of these awards would certainly be able to advance along the optimal path of "three years of Qi Refining, six years of Foundation Establishment, nine years of Core Formation," breaking through the Heavenly Barrier in eighteen years. Those who received two awards had even more hope of attaining Nirvana.

Within the Immortal Alliance, Wang Qi was also a moderately well-known figure. By now, aside from a very few people, no one believed that Wang Qi would fail to break through the Heavenly Barrier.

And to these Exiled Immortals trapped before the Primordial Spirit Heavenly Barrier, Wang Qi's appearance was undoubtedly a shot in the arm. The cultivator who practiced Tian Ge Xing even muttered a few times, "There's hope for the Primordial Spirit... There's hope for the Primordial Spirit..."

It was as though, in their hearts, once Wang Qi achieved the Primordial Spirit, a lower-grade Primordial Spirit Method suitable for Exiled Immortals could be widely spread.

After learning Wang Qi's identity, the two Exiled Immortals immediately underwent a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree change in attitude. It left Wang Qi feeling somewhat awkward.

He knew that, at the root of it all, he could not really be considered an Exiled Immortal. Zhao Qingfeng's awakening spell had made that clear. There was not the slightest trace of an immortal in him.

But those two did not know that. Upon seeing Wang Qi,