Hope to Defeat It, Yet Long to Become It

Outside Longyun City, Huai Jin True Person watched the crowds rapidly converging from every direction, a flicker of surprise passing through his eyes.

As a bona fide native of the Northern Province, he knew better than anyone how difficult it was to make Northern Province people leave their homeland before they had truly been driven to the brink.

Even he himself, though the sect had broken his heart and he had long since lost his freedom, still could not let go of this land. In the end, he had remained at the border, keeping watch over it.

Even he, a great cultivator at the peak of the Violet Palace Realm, just one step away from advancing further, who could call himself an unfettered wanderer, was like this.

How much more so for those ordinary people below, who were still unimaginably far from transcendence?

"How did you manage this?"

Huai Jin True Person looked at Ye Xiu in confusion. There was still not the slightest ripple of emotion on the other man's face, as though everything before them had long been within his calculations.

"Didn't I tell you? Those Myriad Clouds Sect cultivators who leave here and travel across the Northern Province will become this city's best advertisers."

Ye Xiu looked at Huai Jin True Person.

"Those involved are lost in the maze; those watching see clearly. You truly underestimate the symbolic significance and influence the Myriad Clouds Sect holds on this land."

"Far too many people both hope to defeat it and hate themselves for being unable to become it."

"You mean the Azure Dragon Pill gave these people hope of becoming part of the Myriad Clouds Sect?"

Huai Jin True Person rolled his eyes dramatically. "But how is that possible? You and I both know that, at its root,