What none of them knew was that, apart from the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, one of Xiao Ying's main reasons for hurrying home was the Otherworlders.
Or rather, the Otherworlders' Heaven-Mending Divine Ability!
At present, of all the Otherworlders in Mercury World, Di Wushuang should have had the highest cultivation and strength aside from Xiao Ying. She was already a Peak Loose Immortal, comparable to the finest among the natives. With the enhancement of her Great Huan fruition rank, she could match first- and second-rate historical generals such as Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Cao Ren, and Yue Jin. Even leaders of the leading Otherworlder factions, such as Demon Empress Ying Ying, Xuanyuan Menghen, and Song Datian, had reached the late Loose Immortal Realm after so many years of quiet cultivation. All they lacked was the enhancement of a fruition rank.
This heralded the arrival of the Otherworlders' era. As a group, they were already strong enough to compete with the natives and vie for supremacy.
The transition from a technological civilization to a cultivation civilization required a long period of adjustment and adaptation. Forging the Sacred Court had been running for nearly thirty years now. The time was about right!
However, this also meant that, barring any surprises, no Otherworlder should have ascended yet. Even if someone had, they would not discover the Game Dragon Ring's secret so quickly. This was Xiao Ying's greatest advantage.
Xiao Ying's foremost plan now was to take control of the Otherworlders before anyone else could, making them one of the main forces in Great Huan's immortal region's campaigns across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
Naturally, this did not mean the Otherworlders' cultivation aptitude far surpassed that of the natives. The opposite was true: the vast majority of Otherworlders were born with poorer cultivation aptitude