As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xun lowered his eyes slightly. The gentle breeze by the river paused faintly. With one hand behind his back, he calmly looked toward the river's surface. "Third Sister, the knot in my heart from that matter back then, after the Heavenly River Battle, was long since untied before Senior Brother Ji and the Human King."
"Big Brother..."
"Baili of our realm are humans. Five Elements Sect Disciples are humans. Over the years, even quite a few spirit beasts of our Eternal Immortal Frontier who took human form have become humans. Your big brother may be narrow-minded, but I would not carry that hatred over to my own people."
Chen Xun's smile was like a spring breeze sweeping across rivers and mountains. "Eternal Ancient Human Race... that is quite a good name. They are also the Realm Sages of our realm, and likewise descendants of the Ancient Human Race. Even if our Eternal Immortal Frontier offers them no special treatment, they should still be treated equally."
A brilliant gleam rippled through He Ling's eyes. All this time, she had wanted to heal the shadow cast over her big brother by those events of that year—the inaction of the human race across the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Yet she knew very little about the matters between Ji Kun, the Human King, and her big brother.
"Third Sister, rest assured."
Chen Xun nodded. He had always known what everyone in the Eternal Immortal Frontier was avoiding. They only dared to speak of it, never dare to think of it. The Eternal Immortal Frontier only had Human Race Cultivators, yet no collective designation of "human race."
Now, only the Longevity Yu Family dared to secretly touch upon that taboo, and they had even needed to notify He