Sai returned to Robert several days later carrying the first substantial intelligence report on the Moonshade Domain, and though he was clear that the picture remained incomplete, what he had gathered was enough to give Robert a real sense of the outside world they were preparing to step into.
"Four major powers dominate the Moonshade Domain," Sai said, laying out his notes. "The strongest of them is the Ravencloud Sect. Their sect master, a cultivator named Yuan Bo, sits at Soul Manifestation Level 8, High-Stage. Their strongest known member, an elder who rarely appears publicly, has reached Level 9, Mid-Stage—the highest confirmed cultivation anywhere in the domain."
Robert absorbed that quietly. A single cultivator standing at that level would have been unimaginable to the Osborn Clan a year ago, and here it represented merely one figure among an entire domain's worth of established strength.
