"Absolutely! It's true what they say, comparisons are odious!"

In a corner of a powerful faction, several female cultivators were admiring the flowers while talking about A Yao.

“I heard that this seventh young lady who has been found is not actually favored,” said a female cultivator in red.

A female cultivator in green robes standing nearby exclaimed in surprise, "That's impossible! Such a favored daughter of heaven, not being loved?"

"I heard that Madam Lu and all the young masters of the Lu family favored the Eighth Miss, treating their own flesh and blood, the Seventh Miss, as an outsider. As a result, it took her several years to find out about her, and only now do people know about her," the red-clad female cultivator said.

"He doesn't dote on his own daughter or his own sister, but dotes on his adopted daughter? This is just too unreasonable! It's simply unbelievable!" a female cultivator in blue said.

Ayao didn't care what others were saying about her; she only cared about one thing: the whereabouts of the demon beast with a diluted phoenix bloodline. Ayao was very lucky; less than half a month later, she received news about the Golden Feathered Sparrow, which possessed a diluted phoenix bloodline.

However, this news was not brought to her by Xu Fengzhi, but by her metal-type clone who discovered an eighth-level Golden Feather Sparrow.

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Mount Luqi is a sparsely populated place in the Southern Region, shrouded in miasma year-round. Ordinary people living nearby dare not easily venture into the mountains; only some cultivators enter to gather herbs. Even they dare not venture too far into Mount Luqi, as it is home to many high-level demonic beasts.

In the heart of Mount Luqi, sharp cries echoed as a gigantic bird-like monster, over fifty feet tall and with four wings, battled a girl in white.