In the Star Realm, the Azure Cloud Sect alone had more than fifty Earth Rank elders. Nearly twenty to thirty percent of them were gathered in Spellbreak City, so Fang Qianyuan met a dozen or so Earth Rank elders of similar standing all at once.
Even the youngest of these Earth Rank elders was over thirty, while the oldest were nearly a hundred, but all of them were warm and welcoming toward him.
Whatever they thought privately, on the surface at least, none of them wanted to offend a young junior with such boundless prospects. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
Several of them even made obvious attempts to draw him to their side.
At first, Fang Qianyuan felt they were a little too enthusiastic. During the welcoming banquet, they kept pestering him with questions about anything and everything. Only later did he understand that this was because the Star Realm was simply too vast, too immense.
It was the collective name for the many interconnected grotto worlds spanning vast expanses within the Outer-Domain Void, and was also known as the "Heavenly Realm."
If the entire Outer-Domain Void was a boundless ocean, and the Heavenly Stars and grotto worlds large and small were islands floating upon it, then the Star Realm could be described as an independent archipelago beyond the continent that was the Spirit-Taming World.
The Star Realm often held all manner of strange resources and living beings, and the various sects and factions fought over them from time to time.
It was also a dangerous point of contact with the outside world. Remnants of ancient cultivators, demons and monsters, Outer Domain Heavenly Demons, Primordial Mutants, and alien races from other worlds all had to pass through the Star Realm to reach the Spirit-Taming World. Descending there by other means