"But no matter how much we say, these are not matters we can advance or stop."
"There are too few chief seats from the Outer Academy above. Compared to those native to the Nine Heavens, or people from those small realms, there are simply too few of us."
Song Wen spoke words that would have shocked any bystander. Yet only those involved could hear the faint thread of desolation within them.
White Crane sighed as well. "There's no helping it. A bigger fist is the only proper logic. Who told us the soil in our land isn't fertile enough?"
The Profound Heaven Domain was vast, that was true. Otherwise, it could not have served as the source that stirred up this great age of a thousand years. But vastness did not mean it possessed as many Heavenly Secrets. Compared to them, the foundation of the Nine Heavens' Fate Allotment was immensely vast and magnificent.
The land was large, but when spread evenly, there were far too few spirit veins and earth veins.
"Take it slowly. With this Star-Dipper Transformation, every great age produces those blessed with great Providence. I have already met a few among them. That can be considered leaving behind a good affinity, a handful of seeds. But for those seeds to grow into towering trees, Providence alone will only make them withered saplings, unable to withstand the wind and waves outside."
White Crane said, "We're old anyway. The young people's affairs should be left to the young people."
"This place is still better. That place is too heavy, too stifling, and too unchanging." White Crane spoke faintly, then brought up Lu Qing again.
"You saw that person's disciple, didn't you? What did you think?"
The most senior elder of the Outer Academy suddenly smiled. "All those of