Whether it was ordinary Demon Spirits with divine-grade growth potential or Dragon Blood Demon Spirits with excellent-grade growth and above, they were all incredibly difficult to obtain!
With these high-tier Demon Spirits in hand, the strength Li Xingyun controlled had increased enormously. All of this was thanks to Nie Li.
Li Xingyun no longer looked down on Nie Li the way he had before. He could only regard Nie Li as an equal.
Ye Xuan had considerable wealth, and in his heart he carried no small amount of pride. In the path of cultivation, resources were everything. As a direct descendant of the Fire God Sect's Ye clan, the cultivation resources Ye Xuan could command were something ordinary people could never hope to compare with.
At Gu Bei's words, even Ye Xuan's expression stiffened slightly. Last year's grand finale had been a third-grade Spirit Beast — a Flowing Cloud Crane — and its price had soared past sixty thousand Spirit Stones. Only people like
The juniors of the Six Great Divine Sects and their great families had their own circles. At the very pinnacle was the tier occupied by Long Tianming — the first-in-line heir of a great family, even a contender for the position of Divine Sect Master. Even if he lost the competition, he would at least become a senior figure within the sect. To ordinary people, he was the very definition of the apex.
Below that were people like Ye Xuan,
Below them came the geniuses from small worlds and various cities. They were naturally the targets both previous groups competed to recruit. But for these geniuses to establish their own independent faction within the Feather God Sect was exceedingly difficult.
Ye Xuan, Long Yuyin, Li Xingyun, and their ilk were an entire tier below Long Tianming. Getting him to so much as glance their way was a challenge.
As for Nie Li,
Nie Li simply pretended not to hear Ye Xuan's words.
Cups clinked and laughter filled the air. After Long Tianming, more top figures from the Feather God Sect, the Fire God Sect, and the Heavenly Melody Sect entered one after another. Their presence in the side hall was undeniably the most commanding. Those around them spoke to them with utmost caution.
"That's our Heavenly Melody Sect's
Nie Li followed Xiao Ning'er's gaze toward the distance. There stood a woman of beauty as radiant as the full moon, perhaps twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. She was breathtakingly elegant, and every gesture she made carried an air of nobility. Her gossamer-thin robes faintly revealed skin like ice and bone like jade.
She was barefoot. Around her ankles hung a string of silver bells that produced a clear, melodious chime with every step she took.
The Sword Saintess, Mingyue Wushuang?
So it was her!
Nie Li didn't actually know her personally — he had only heard her reputation. In his previous life, Mingyue Wushuang had been one of the top ten powerhouses in the entire Dragon Ruins Domain, a figure standing at the very peak of the Six Great Divine Sects!
The Six Great Divine Sects had produced geniuses generation after generation, and over the course of a century, many powerful figures had emerged. Mingyue Wushuang was without question one of the most dazzling. Nie Li had heard the legend of how she had single-handedly stormed the
"That's the Fire God Sect's Yanyang!" Xiao Ning'er pointed at another figure.
He was a flame-haired youth with crimson hair that seemed to burn like living fire, yet his skin was remarkably fair. His entire body radiated an aura of fierce dominance.
The Flame Emperor?
Nie Li hadn't expected that such a small gathering would feature several powerhouses he had been intimately familiar with in his previous life. A century from now, the Flame Emperor would ascend to become the Fire God Sect Master, ushering in the sect's most prosperous era. The Fire God Sect of that time would stand supreme beneath the heavens, having once suppressed the Demon God Sect so thoroughly they couldn't lift their heads.
But no matter how powerful the Six Great Divine Sects became, they could not defy the heavens. They could not contend with the strength of the Sacred Demon Ancestral Ground — much less the Sacred Emperor.
At the thought of that most formidable enemy, Nie Li clenched his fists. Having been reborn, his starting point was far higher than in his previous life. But facing the Sacred Emperor, whose power reached across the heavens, Nie Li still had no certainty of victory. Even if his cultivation could surpass the Sacred Emperor's, the Sacred Emperor had spent millions of years building his dominion. He controlled the entirety of time and space. No single person could ever shatter his absolute rule.
In this life, to challenge the Sacred Emperor, he could not rely on his strength alone. He had to mobilize every force at his disposal!
But every last one of these supreme geniuses was proud and untamable, nearly impossible to approach. What's more, Nie Li's current strength was far too weak — he simply couldn't attract anyone's attention.