Humiliation

"Isn't that the Fifth Plane? The place Empana is from? Don't tell me he lost to this kind of trash?"

The people of the Eighth Plane were quite indifferent to what was happening. They couldn't communicate with those outside of their pillars, so other than casually observing those that were around them, they didn't care to do much else. But when this was suddenly noticed, they all turned toward the pillar Ryu and Mae were on.

Not only was there no Empana, but it didn't even look like any of the Lizard Demon Race were present.

Empana was quite famous amongst the youths of the Eighth Plane. If one wanted to rise to a higher Plane, you couldn't just be mediocre if you wanted a place. The kind of pressure you would face was unimaginable, and with so many geniuses around them, why would powerful Sects of the Eighth Plane care to recruit people from as low as the Fifth Plane? If anything, they might give the Seventh Plane a glance.