Hou Niao met the Way of Harmony's True Person. There was only one, their sole True Person: Yuantong True Person.
She had maintained her appearance with graceful elegance and looked like a young girl, much younger even than her disciple, Immortal Maiden Dong. No one would have imagined that she was already eight hundred years old, approaching the thousand-year limit of the Nascent Soul stage.
He actually wanted to say that there was little point in preserving a young girl's appearance; the finest years of a woman's life were really the full bloom of young adulthood and middle age. But he could not say that. It was merely his personal preference, and he had no right to pass judgment.
Neither side discussed anything substantive at first. They simply chatted about everything under the sun, from Jinxiu to Hell Star, then back to the continent's current tangled situation.
It was clear that Immortal Maiden Yuantong attached great importance to relations with the Quanzhen Sect, not because the Way of Harmony needed muscle, but as a way of mending the roof before the rain came.
Who would ultimately unlock the shackles binding the Splendid World? They dared not speculate about those envoys from the upper realms, nor could they guess accurately. But among Jinxiu's native cultivators, Hou Niao was unquestionably a special presence.
Gradually, they came to the matter at hand. "Seven people have come, each from a different tradition. I know you may have had opportunities to encounter them on Hell Star, Sect Leader, so in the interests of fairness, I won't introduce their backgrounds, traditions, names, or other basic information."
Hou Niao nodded in understanding. Given the rather unusual testing process, it would be difficult to account for the influence of preconceived impressions, so concealing their identities from one another