"Princess, what is this creature? This old man has never seen something like this in my long years of life", a voice reverberated in the ears of participants who had gathered around the second princess.


    A figure appeared in the air soon after and a fearful look appeared on the face of the four winged sky dragon after the mysterious person walked towards it.


    The mysterious person revealed himselfpletely after he stopped near the sky dragon. He was a decadant looking old man with deep wrinkles all over his face. He was holding a bronze book in his left hand and there was a stick in his right hand to support his body from swaying in the air.


    The mysterious expert seemed to be an ordinary looking old man but the faces of the peak experts spoke otherwise. Collective gasps came from the crowd after they heard the murmuring of peak experts around him.


    "It is unbelievable. Fortune seeking old man is still alive!", crowd started to talk among themselves.


    "How many years it has been since west heard about him?", a cultivator asked to hispanion.


    "It has been thirty years since hisst appearance", hispanion replied.


    "Senior, please ept this bow from me. I, Xie Lanying am fortunate that I manage to meet you during my life time", the second princess bowed towards the decandant looking old man.


    The old man finally turned his head and took a look at the second princess. "Girl, no need to act modest before me. It wouldn''t be long before you enter the emperor realm", he spoke with a light smile on his face.


    "Senior, please don''t embarass me. I still need to cultivate for a while before dreaming about the Martial emperor realm", the second princess replied.


    "Your father must be happy about you. It is the Xie family ''s fortune that they have such a good talent", the fortune seeking old man spoke.


    "Now, tell me. What is this creature and why have you brought this infront of the crowd?", he looked towards Xie Lanying.


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    "I can''t beleive it. There is such a problem in our continent!


    We must learn the entire truth after the princess ends her conversation with the fortune seeking senior", the top hundred participants started to talk among themselves.


    The fortune seeking old man didn''t linger around for much longer after finishing his talk with the second princess. "I am going to speak with your imperial father", he spoke before vanishing from the eyes of the entire crowd.


    ''Finally, the old monster is gone. With him around, I can''t be at ease in the grand sectpetition'', Zhan Chen thought to himself. He threw a curious look towards the humanoid creature and looked towards Xie Lanying.


    "Princess, please tell us about this creature. The fortune telling old man has shown himself. This means it most be a very important matter", an expert from a prominent sect asked Xie Lanying.


    "Has everyone heard about the shadows?", Xie Lanying looked towards everyone present in the crowd.


    Confused expression appeared on the faces of many as they had never heard the word shadows in their lives before but the facial expressions of few peak experts changed as soon as they heard the words of princess Lanying.


    "Princess, don''t tell me it is the devil race?", an expert asked with trepidation in his voice.


    "Exactly, what we are facing now is one of the three biggest races, the devils from the shadows", Xie Lanying nodded her head seriously.


    "How is it possible? The astral wind has always prevented the devils from invading our humans", an old expert who seemed knowledgeable voiced his opinion on public.


    "We have yet to ascertain the details. But from our investigation, we have found out that these devils areing out from a space crack near the Red mountain", Xie Lanying spoke.


    "So, princess. The changes to this year''spetition is.....?", an expert looked towards Xie Lanying withoutpeteting his sentence.


    "Yes senior, the changes has been made in the grand sectpetition. So that, we can prepare for any eventuality", Xie Lanying spoke.


    Many experts still had doubts in their minds but Xie Lanying herself didn''t speak anymore and returned to her ce. The Spirit pce experts allowed the top participants to disperse. So that, they could be briefed about unforeseen situation from the experts of their respective ns and sects.


    The grand sectpetition stopped for a while because there were confusion and chaos among the crowd. Zhan Chen returned to the Lu n ce after the top hundred participants started to disperse.


    "Zhan Chen, have you ever heard about the shadows?", the second elder of the Lu n asked Zhan Chen as soon as he returned to their side.


    "Senior, I have heard a little but it will be best if I can hear the details from you", Zhan Chen replied.


    "Mingxi, what about you? Have you ever heard about the shadows and their inhabitants?", the second elder of the Lu n looked towards Lu Mingxi. Lu Mingxi shook her head as she had never given any effort to learn about the different races of others.


    "Well then. I shall exin about the shadows and the devil race. Listen carefully. We must prepare ourself if any unforeseen events unfolds", the second elder of the Lu n spoke with a solemn look on his face.


    All the Lu n cultivators and Zhan Chen''s women perked up their ears as they were really curious about the matter rting to the shadows.


    "There were countlesss in the vast starry sky and myriad of races lived in theses. The nature of a actually decided by its proximity to the regions of the immortal realm", the second elder of the Lu n spoke.


    "Immortal realm!", collective gasps came out from Lu n cultivators after they heard the words of their second elder. Immortal realm always seemed to be a topic from the fairy tail but they became surprised after hearing the words from their second elder ''s mouth.


    "The immortal realm is broadly divided into four domains. Nether domain, Chaos domain, Spirit domain, Shadow domain.


    Human experts generally live in the Spirit domain and our Seven sea is also located close to the Spirit domain.


    As for the shadows, you can guess already. Theses located close to the Shadow domain where devil experts and evil beings live."


    "I have never thought that there will be such intricacies. It means the legends are real! If we somehow cross the emperor realm, then we can think about seeing the immortal realm some day", Lu Mingxi murmured to herself with an awestruck look on her face.


    "Girly, stop day dreaming. First work hard to reach the Martial emperor realm. Then you will know how hard it is to ascend to the immortal realm", the second elder of the Lu n spoke with a smile on his face.


    "This is a creature from the shadows. I understand this much. But why is the imperial family panicking? Do not they have their sage realm experts?", Lu Tai Cang asked with a confused look on his face.