"Please, everyone, sit down and speak your minds."
Since the others wanted to talk, Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong naturally could not refuse. Everyone soon sat cross-legged on the nearby rocks, settling in for a discussion.
As Fang Qianyuan looked them over, he noticed that Huang Yunhao wore a blue-green robe and an ancient-style crown, giving him a distinctly archaic air. Beside him stood an exotic beast resembling a lion or tiger, golden from head to toe and faintly radiating golden light.
Huang Yunhao was a renowned expert of the Earth Rank Sixth Transformation from the Spirit Taming Sect, known as the Golden Light Daoist. His spirit creature was Golden Light, the seemingly unremarkable exotic beast beside him.
Fang Qianyuan suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen this sort of spirit beast before. It was the human rank supreme-grade spirit creature Wang Han of Yuncheng had used at the Moonlight Fairy's birthday banquet in the Flowing Cloud Grotto years ago.
That, too, had been a Golden Light, but Wang Han's Golden Light had been in its human rank form, resembling a civet. It had lacked the majestic bearing of the lion- or tiger-like exotic beast before him.
This was rather like Little White back when she had retained her human rank form despite actually possessing earth rank potential. Only after advancing and gaining the opportunity to devour black wind true meaning had she reached her current earth rank.
Fang Qianyuan then looked at Zhu Tao, a distinguished elder at the seventh transformation of earth rank from the Flying Immortal Sect. He had once headed the Hall within the sect's Administrative Affairs Institute that oversaw spirit creatures and spirit beasts.
The man was exceptionally capable. Even at human rank, he had managed affairs at every level in perfect order, earning