This Junior Brother is Fated to Be With Us

Xiao Xuan came back to himself. Hearing Dao Xuan's words, he was stunned for a moment.

A Dao Child of the Interception Sect, nineteenth on the Great Sage Stone challenge monument.

There was no doubt that either one was enough to make his expression change repeatedly.

He was undoubtedly a genius, but he was not a disciple of one of the great sects. He came from the Heavenfire Sect of the Upper Domain.

Not everyone above the Mythical realm was necessarily a disciple of a great sect. As a Mythical expert of the Heavenfire Sect, Xiao Xuan could certainly be called extraordinarily gifted. He had reached the level of thirteen fires while still in the Golden Core realm, making him fairly well-known in the Eastern Domain. The Heavenly Court had once sent people to approach him and ask whether he wished to join.

Although going there would undoubtedly grant him better resources and a broader, boundless world, there was a saying: better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. In the Heavenfire Sect, he was the number one prodigy, and half the sect's resources would fall upon him.

But if he went to a great sect, he would have to fight for them.

He understood his own circumstances. There was still a considerable gap between those above the Mythical realm cultivated by Upper Domain powers and those cultivated by great sects. Even if he went, he might not receive more resources. Moreover, as someone from an Upper Domain power, he knew very well that there was a difference between disciples like himself and disciples raised within a great sect. Unless one possessed crushing talent, there would always be a difference in closeness between those not cultivated internally and those who were.

That difference was