Tianming was only there to hitch a ride, but he had inadvertently attracted some people's attention. He was currently sitting with Xiaoxiao and Lingfeng as a youth with black and white eyebrows coincidentally passed by where he was with a group of ten or so people. They stopped before Tianming and glared at them. The group’s leader was none other than the disciple of the head instructor, Bai Junce, recognized to be the vice chief disciple of the group second only to Yu Ziqian.

"A specter?" Bai Junce raised his eyebrow as he inspected Lingfeng. In his eyes was a look of derision. Though specters were also humanoid, and stemmed from the same ancestor as normal humans, the branching had happened so long ago that they weren't considered to be the same anymore. Orderia was also a place where humans dominated, so specters were the minority. Though they had factions that had risen in the star's long history, they had basically been entirely...