He had originally thought this Brother Chiyou was one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, traveling incognito through the Central Continent.
He had mingled with the Nine Phoenixes Tribe to understand the hardships of its people.
The reason Nine Phoenixes called Chiyou his elder brother
was chiefly that, upon meeting Chiyou, he had identified him as one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches from his unique aura.
He might even have been Dijiang, the leader of the twelve tribes. Although Dijiang's original form was a faceless monster, the order of his Space Law allowed him to transform freely into the likeness of any plant.
He could also use the physical form of whichever race he assumed to unleash its distinct powers of Law Origin order.
Yet at this very moment,
Nine Phoenixes discovered that Chiyou, the elder brother he had met along the way, actually possessed Three Souls.
And when he asked again, the answer was still that his name was Chiyou.
For a moment,
like lightning flashing and stone splitting beneath a thunderclap, countless legends of Chiyou, the Human Sovereign of the Human Race, flashed through Nine Phoenixes' mind-legends passed down among countless Great Shamans over endless ages.
But
in the eyes of Nine Phoenixes, a Great Shaman of the Witch Clan, the Chiyou Ancestor of the renowned Chiyou Tribe had always presided over the Human Race on the Eastern Continent.
How could he possibly leave the east so readily?
And come to this savage land on the Central Continent, where all manner of formations and tribes stood thick as trees?
Nine Phoenixes hesitantly asked Chiyou,
"Are you truly Chiyou, the legendary founding ancestor of the Human Race's Chiyou Tribe?"
"Hahahahaha!"
Chiyou's laughter rang on. "I change neither my name nor my surname. From the moment we met, I told you,