After a night's rest, the disciples of the various sects set out together for the imperial palace to pay their respects to the royal family.
One disciple asked curiously, "I wonder what the Imperial Clan is like?"
For the many sects' Heaven's Chosen who had spent so long within their sects that they had long since lost contact with the outside world, an audience with the Imperial Clan was quite a novelty.
After all, in the distant past, the Ailao Domain had also had clans, which had even established powerful dynasties.
But later, for their own respective reasons, those dynasties had gradually been replaced by the great sects of today.
None had endured for a thousand years without declining like the Dali Domain's imperial family.
Thus, their visit here as sect disciples from the Ailao Domain could actually be considered a special sort of cultural exchange between the two domains.
"I heard the current Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain has already reigned for over six hundred years. He has countless children and descendants, and he alone is the ancestor of the entire Imperial Clan today."
Dongfang Yao enthusiastically shared this information with the others, though no one knew where he had heard it:
"In that case, hasn't the Dali Domain's Imperial Sovereign already reached the same level of strength as a Sect Master?"
Shen Wei looked unruffled. "Why worry about all that? Someone like that isn't someone we can stand alongside right now. Just watch quietly from afar and admire him."
Dongfang Yao waved a hand, his expression full of longing. "Of course I'm not talking about the Imperial Sovereign. I mean his children and descendants."
"Think about it. He has so many descendants, and every one of them is imperial royalty. If we could get acquainted with a