The Otherworld had stabilized.
For a time, all the alien races waiting outside surged in.
They had truly waited far too long for this day.
Even those who had arrived last had waited a full ten years or so. The earliest arrivals had waited nearly twenty.
They had long since been unable to contain their impatience.
The Otherworld was where great powers of antiquity had fallen. It contained countless exotic treasures and opportunities enough to count until one's hands went numb. Most importantly, though, were the inheritances—the supreme inheritances passed down from the Primordial World of ancient times. Those were what every cultivator dreamed of.
After the Great Destruction, not only had the inheritances of the entire Primordial World been severed, but even the scattered remnants had been locked away. Other than direct bloodline descendants, they were never passed on to outsiders.
There might be countless sects nowadays, but in truth, they were nothing more than empty skins. The families had long since carved those vast sects up cleanly between themselves.
Even Sword Inquiry, Seed of the Way, and Ancient Shaman were filled with factions and countless hills of their own.
Take the Heart Sword branch. While it was a sect Sword Inquiry had planted outside, it was also one of the factions within Sword Inquiry's main sect.
Pei Feng's aunt had now become the personal disciple of this faction's Grand Elder, a true inheritor of her teachings. Once matters in the Otherworld were over, she would return to Sword Inquiry, join the Heart Sword main sect, and inherit one of the three great sword arts of the Sword Inquiry lineage—the Mortal World Sword, the advanced form of the Calamity Heart Sword.
If Pei Feng kept progressing, he would most likely enter the main sect as well.
After all, he