Indeed...
Over the past dozen or so years, Li Xiaoya's Water-Element Clone had visited roughly a quarter of the major cities on the Sacred Lord Continent without stirring up any trouble...
Through his observations over those years, Li Xiaoya had learned that although the Sacred Lord belonged to the Devil Race, he was considered the foremost cultivator in the Immortal Spirit Realm. From what Li Xiaoya had uncovered, the Sacred Lord had most likely already attained True Immortal cultivation. Though he had unified the Immortal Spirit Realm, his rule primarily extended to its upper ranks...
He paid little attention to ordinary cultivators or mortal races. Nominally, the entire Sacred Lord Continent was under his control, but most cities and regions were actually governed by their own sects and races, without overly heavy-handed interference...
It was nothing like the campaign to demonize the entire Immortal Spirit Realm that Li Xiaoya had imagined...
That did not mean the Sacred Lord was a good cultivator, however. His policies simply served the needs of his rule. No matter how formidable he was, he was still only a single member of the Devil Race. Reportedly, there were hardly any Devil Cultivators in the entire Immortal Spirit Realm. Just where this Sacred Lord had come from was a question worth investigating... but Li Xiaoya had found no answer...
The Sacred Lord's lax policies were somewhat similar to those of the Immortal Court in the Thirty-Three Star Realm. He interfered in almost nothing, merely keeping the High-Ranked Cultivators of the major races and sects in check and commanding a contingent of them... Of the Immortal Spirit Realm's three continents, neither the Ten Thousand Isles Continent nor the True Such Continent was truly under his control. Their submission was nominal. The True Such Continent hardly mattered, since it