"What do these people do?"
"No idea. They seem to be Divine Descentors, those strange beings rumored to have come out of Materialized Heaven..."
When the seven Divine Descentors spotted them, they immediately grew wildly excited, howling as they drove their mounts toward them. Lin Xi and Xiao Linyue were somewhat startled, then recalled the rumors that had circulated among Cloud Province and the Immortal Alliance's envoys in recent years.
They were lofty Supreme Elders. All these years, they had merely been stationed in Cloud Province to guard against Li Chen personally invading Cloudview Heaven, so they knew little about these subjects of Materialized Heaven. Yet they had heard plenty of rumors. Almost every member of the Immortal Alliance and disciple of the Cloudthunder Sect who had dealt with them had come away with a deep impression.
According to their reports, these were a pack of lunatics, a gang of evil fiends. Wherever they appeared, the very style of the world seemed to warp. They could practically contaminate minds and twist people's views of life, values, and the world.
The higher-ups were rather puzzled by these obscure descriptions and had tried to investigate the Divine Descentors' origins. But apart from discovering that they all resembled Intelligent Machinery, with empty shells bearing no trace whatsoever of a Primordial Spirit or True Spirit, they had found nothing else.
On this matter, the many knowledgeable cultivators within the Immortal Alliance offered differing opinions, broadly divided into two schools of thought.
The first held that these were all artificial life created from virtual personalities, essentially Intelligent Machinery similar to Half-Insect Men.
High-Rank Cultivators of the Puppet Dao had all studied the Creation-Promotion Secret Art to some extent. Li Chen, moreover, was a Great Power of the Wisdom Dao who had risen through that very