Liang Zhaohuang looked toward the several Golden Core True Persons bowing as they made their petition. From where they were seated, he judged that these people were likely cultivators from small or mid-sized East Sea sects, or of Rogue Cultivator origin.
Naturally, these people had not received invitations from the Liang Family. Yet having come to offer congratulations after hearing the news, the Liang Family could hardly turn them away. Moreover, they were all Golden Core True Persons; the Liang Family could not arrange them at the outer banquet alongside Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators, and could only specially set aside several seats for them at this inner banquet.
Liang Zhaohuang naturally understood this. From their seats alone, he could determine their origins.
As for their petition, perhaps one reason was indeed to try experiencing the Phoenix Dharma Aspect's baptism of five-colored fire rain. But what Liang Zhaohuang cared about more was their intention to pledge allegiance.
Although in recent years, Liang Zhaohuang's—and indeed the entire Liang Family's—focus had been on helping him make an all-out push toward the Nascent Soul Realm, he was not wholly ignorant of external affairs, especially the circumstances and intelligence of the East Sea. The family's intelligence division had continued monitoring and gathering information on the East Sea.
As far as he knew, the East Sea had not been peaceful in recent years.
Especially after the great war between the Immortal Dynasty and the Demon Country erupted, the East Sea had gradually been dragged into it as well.
Not to mention that one of the front-line battlefields between the Immortal Dynasty and the Demon Country lay in the waters of the East Sea's Pearl Island Chain. Back in the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm, the East Sea sects had joined forces with the Immortal Dynasty