The Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect.
Two imposing figures stood before the sect's great hall. One wore golden armor, cloaked in golden light; the other was an elderly man with the bearing of an ancient immortal. Both gazed toward the southeast of the Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect.
Zhang Yuan knew them both: the Golden-Armored Deity [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master], and the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect's Great Immortal Lord [Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu].
"Someone is conducting nature observation."
[Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] furrowed his brow, his presence commanding awe without anger.
"Indeed. Presumably a True Lord," [Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] said with a nod.
Humans were born of yin, yang, and the five elements. Yin and yang divided them into men and women, while the five elements determined their temperaments. So-called nature observation was, in fact, the use of various methods by powerful High Cultivators to observe a person's precise disposition.
During past Chaos Calamities, True Lords had often conducted nature observation to judge whether the pawns they had chosen were suitable. Those who failed to meet their expectations became expendable pieces; those who did were kindred spirits of the observing True Lord, worthy of further investment.
But that was in the past. During the more recent Chaos Calamities, with the "true nature" portion of the sha ingestion gang devoration path lost, nature observation had become time-consuming, laborious, and of little use. Fewer and fewer True Lords bothered arranging it.
"Can you tell who it is?" [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] asked.
His avatar had given Zhang Yuan a Long Halberd, proving that Zhang Yuan did not belong to an opposing camp. That meant the True Lord scheming against Zhang Yuan and observing his temperament was very likely an enemy of the Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect.
Having noticed