After offering his assessment, Venerable Scarlet asked, "Where are they now? Mofang City? Do you intend to meet them and recruit them into our sect?"
"Venerable Scarlet, cultivators like these need only remain within the alliance. I will not let them become too involved in our sect's affairs," the Shadow King said. "Our sect is our sect. The Demon Alliance and the Earth Baleful Gate are merely pieces in our hands. The Heavenly Realms Sect, however, has always possessed deep foundations, and its upper ranks also include Long-Sleeping Venerables like us, so we must handle it cautiously. Still, our Two Sects have always shared deep ties. If we can reach an agreement on present affairs, we might well unite again as we did in the past."
Venerable Scarlet said, "I will go take a look as well. It will be a good opportunity to get out and about."
The Shadow King said, "You would be most welcome."
He immediately brought Venerable Scarlet with him to Mofang City in Central Province, where they met the ancient-era Dharma Cultivators who had come to join them at a manor on the outskirts.
These ancient-era Dharma Cultivators were, of course, Wen Wei and his companions.
Three months earlier, Wen Wei and his companions had been hunted by an elder of the Thunder Household, suffering grievous casualties.
They had once taken pride in being Dharma Cultivators and disdained the present-day spirit command dao, believing that it relied on external things and failed to grasp the true essence of the Great Dao. Yet even they had been forced to seek another way, finding a means to start over with modern cultivation methods so they could fit into this era.
But their former identities no longer held any standing. They had become unregistered outsiders without roots or