Lancelot couldn't fly, not really, so his slow descent eventually brought him to the ground between the crowd and Grace.
Yet, by then, the crowd had exploded into a cacophony of murmurs.
"I heard these names,"
"I know! He's the famous eight-spiritual-roots genius!"
"The one whose core evolved to living fire?"
"Yes! But why is he here? The Secret Jade Sect is near the Inner Circles."
Liam heard everything, and dots had connected in his mind long before that. He recalled his Master mentioning the living fire when discussing the dantians' evolution. He just couldn't understand what that famous genius was doing in such distant reaches of the Kingdom.
Of course, Liam hadn't known the Ancestral Phoenix's bloodline was involved, but Lancelot's behavior made more sense after he compared him to Anastasia.
