In the span of a few breaths, two more human Saints arrived.
One was the former headmaster of the Extraordinary Scholars Academy in the Central Plains from seven or eight thousand years ago. He had retired for countless years, and several generations of his successors had already died. He was incomparably ancient.
No one had expected this king of recent antiquity to still be alive—and to have successfully entered the Saint realm.
It was said that the Extraordinary Scholars Academy possessed part of the Formation Secret and guarded an ancient starry trial road leading beyond the domain. With such profound foundations, having a Saint in residence was not unreasonable.
The identity of the other man was even more startling.
He proclaimed himself Li Ruoyu, master of Zhuo Peak from Mystic Gate in Wei Territory of the Southern Region.
Mystic Gate was merely the dominant sect of a small nation in the Southern Region. Though it possessed one hundred and eight inheritances, most of its peak masters were only at Dragon Transformation, while a minority had reached the first level of the Immortal Platform.
Its strongest foundation amounted to no more than a handful of mighty experts at the second level of the Immortal Platform.
How could such a shallow pool nurture a True Dragon like the old man Li Ruoyu?
What people did not know was that Zhuo Peak not only inherited the Dao of Nature, but also guarded one of the Nine Secrets.
The inheritors of this lineage believed in "great completion seems flawed, great fullness seems empty, great skill seems clumsy." They excelled at concealing their abilities. This was pure Daoist thought, one branch of the lineage of Heavenly Venerable Daode.
Among them, the most outstanding representative was Li Ruoyu, the inheritor of this generation.
At first, he