The ancestors all fell to their knees when they realized who was in front of them.
"Your majesty," they shouted all at once. "It's an honor to meet you."
Scarlet looked at the lot and nodded slightly for them to get back up, but the group remained on their knees.
"You deal with them," she spoke all of a sudden and vanished from the air. When the group saw where she had vanished, their eyes widened to a point where they nearly fell out of their socket.
"W-w-where d-did her Majesty go?" one of them asked.
"She doesn't like strangers that much, so she went back to her beast space to avoid you guys," Alex said simply.
However, those words were anything but simple to the ears of the many ancestors here. When they heard that she had gone back to her beast space, that could only mean one thing.
pαпdα`noνɐ1`сoМ Alex had bonded with the Phoenix.
Only now did they understand why he was the King of the Southern Continent. Only now did they fully realize just who they were talking with.
"Your majesty, please forgive us for any disrespect we may have shown you," the ancestors spoke before the sect leader and the rest could.
"I don't feel disrespected," Alex said. "You may all get back up."
The ancestors slowly stood up.
"Now that I've given you all that you wanted, let us leave," he said and started walking away.
"Your majesty," Bai Qiyi quickly called out to him. "If you don't mind, can you explain why you say that this Phoenix fire is better than some pills? As far as I understand, doesn't it do the same thing as a healing pill? As for resources, we are spending an entire Spirit vein on this. Even if it is better, I don't see how it can be so much better than just a pill."
Alex stopped and looked at the sect leader for a bit before saying, "what do you think is unique to your sect that the other 4 sects don't have?" he asked.
"Unique? You mean our landscape?" one of the ancestors asked. The Blazing Earth sect was in the state of Re, which was the only state that didn't have snowfall like the other 4 after all.
"No, not your landscape," Alex said. "I'm talking about your sect's feature. The Nether Poison sect has its poison, the Blue Spring sect has its beast taming, what does your sect have?"
"Oh, Body cultivators," Bai Qiyi answered. "What about them?"
"Do you know how the people in the Southern Continent cultivate their bodies?" Alex asked.
The sect master's eyes moved from Alex to the fire before understanding what he was talking about. "I see," he said. "Do they use the Phoenix fire to heal themselves?"
"Yes," Alex said. "How many resources do your disciples use to heal after training? How many resources can you save if they could get beat up as badly as they wanted and healed within a few hours simply by staying in front of this fire? Do you not think it's better than any pill I could've given you?"
The ancestors looked at each other, not knowing what to say. It was true that with this fire, they would save on resources for body cultivation, but in the first place, the number of disciples that body cultivated had already gone down quite a bit.
At this point, it all felt like a waste to the ancestors.
"How strong can one even get as a body cultivator?" one of the ancestors asked.
"Do you want an example?" Alex asked.
"Are you talking about yourself?" Tai Guan asked. "Weren't you strong as a body cultivator even before?"
"I was, and I'm not talking about myself," Alex said. "I'm talking about my father."
"Me?" Graham was surprised. "Do you want me to show them how strong I am?"
"Yes, father. Uhh... why don't you punch him?" Alex said, pointing to an old ancestor with a cultivation base Saint Soul 4th realm.
"Please be on guard or you might hurt yourself," Alex told the old man.
The old man looked back suspiciously as he wasn't sure what to do. He looked at the other ancestors who nodded and walked away.
"Alright, let me see how strong you really are," the ancestor said and used a defensive technique.
Graham dashed forward, leaving massive gouges on earth as he pushed against it to arrive in front of the old man in an instant.
The old man was surprised at the speed Graham showed, even when he didn't even have a proper cultivation base.
The punch landed on the defensive technique the old man had put up and caused an explosion that sent dust flying hundreds of meters around the two fighters.
The punch had created a crater around the two of them as if a meteor had landed where they stood.
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