The Evil Demon Great Forest.
This was the habitat of the Evil Eye Tyrant Clan, a clan of spiritual-type Soul Beasts, as well as the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Sect.
In the year since he had left the Sun Moon Continent, bolstered by industrial civilization and backed by the Sun Moon Empire, the Holy Spirit Sect and the Body Sect had developed rapidly. In just one short year, they had grown from nothing into two of the foremost sects on the entire continent.
Of the two, the Holy Spirit Sect was especially well known.
Because its cultivation methods allowed rapid progress, and because, unlike the Body Sect, it did not recruit only Soul Masters and Soul Engineers with Body Martial Souls, the Holy Spirit Sect had grown from its original few dozen members to over a hundred, and its expansion was still gathering momentum.
The moment the two stepped onto the sect's outskirts, patrolling disciples spotted them and blocked their path. "Stop! Where did you come from?"
Even with the improvements brought by immortal arts, some of the Evil Soul Masters' basic traits remained. Their tempers were hardly good; refraining from violence alone made them as merciful as bodhisattvas, living Buddhas walking the earth.
Seeing this pair-a handsome man and a beautiful woman, utterly at odds with the image of Holy Spirit Sect disciples-they naturally grew suspicious.
That was not to say everyone in the Holy Spirit Sect was a crooked melon or a split date. At least compared with ordinary sects, their looks were more unusual, and their bearing leaned toward the dark side. In short, they did not take the usual path.
Lin Qian remained perfectly composed. "Go back and tell Zhong Lixuan his big brother is back."
Seeing how young he was, the disciple looked thoroughly