At this sight, the immortals' expressions shifted slightly.
Luo Xiuyuan was a Second-Step Great Dao Immortal. He had awakened to the Dao from childhood and cultivated the Dao of the Heaven-Earth Cosmos. After three hundred thousand years, he had proven the Dao and reached the Second Step. He was a descendant of an Innate Being of the Immortal Realm.
It was said that his youth had been miserable. He had been suppressed fiercely, unable even to reach the stage of first showing his edge.
Yet this man had been fortunate. He had entered many secret realms and obtained countless supreme treasures. There was no helping it—the natives of the Three Thousand Immortal Domains could no longer monopolize Heaven and Earth's resources as they once had. They had even learned of his proving the Dao only after the fact.
And such matters were merely a microcosm of the Three Thousand Immortal Domains.
Luo Xiuyuan's seemingly discourteous manner had another fundamental cause: the enormous, latent conflict between the Immortal Realm natives of the Three Thousand Immortal Domains and the Immortal Realm's Innate Beings, a conflict that had yet to erupt.
Back when the Overlord Clans of the Great World ruled the age, the ancestors of these present-day cultivators had suffered grievously at their hands.
In truth, cultivators like Luo Xiuyuan, who still had the chance to prove the Dao and become Immortals, ought to have been grateful to Chen Xun and the others. Yet none of that could be seen. After time's vast transformations, the impact of that earth-shaking war upon the hearts of all living beings had dwindled to almost nothing.
"This Luo Xiuyuan..."
"Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory was founded by the sages of our Three Thousand Immortal Domains. This child's conduct disgraces us cultivators."
The old Heavenly Master spoke solemnly,