Zhang Yang looked at Yao Xi, the woman from the Immortal Realm, and said with a smile, "I heard you've been doing very well at the Azure Cloud Museum lately. You're a little proud, perhaps, but as a direct descendant of an Immortal King, you've still done quite well.
"After working there for so long, have you gained any insights?"
Yao Xi said with feeling, "I never imagined that the Azure Cloud Sect of the lower realm could have such a stirring and impassioned history after only a few thousand years. You must know that the lower-realm Azure Cloud Sect has existed for only two or three tenths as long as the one in the Immortal Realm.
"Especially the hardships of the past thousand years—they were truly worthy of song and tears.
"The Sect Master truly deserves to be called a figure of his generation. Born amid peril, he nevertheless created such a situation and ultimately opened the Divine Dao. He is indeed worthy of being the Divine Dao Lord!
"By comparison, the Azure Cloud Sect in the Immortal Realm seems far more uneventful."
"Mm." Zhang Yang nodded slightly. "The Azure Cloud Sect's few thousand years of history can be summed up as flourishing to the point of decline, and declining to the point of flourishing. Amid those rises and falls, it instead composed a magnificent symphony of the mortal world.
"Besides...
"You are now a member of the Azure Cloud Sect, so let me correct one of your notions.
"This land is not the so-called lower realm of yours. It is the place where Heaven and Earth first existed, also known as the Primordial Land.
"The Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor walked out from here.
"Later, the Exquisite Monster Emperor, the Samsara Ghost Emperor, and the Nine Nether Demon Sovereign