The relay point held by the Warders on Wild Heart Isle was usually rotated with humans or demons in charge of the teleportation arrays. Many of them were tiers 4 to 5 of the Sky Realm but the leader was a tier 8.
She was a human from a dead sect. It happened in the course of cultivation that the resources that made the foundation of a sect ran out or were taken in battle, thus bringing the sect to an end.
Arianna was only 1000 years old but she had come to the Warders due to how her sect died. It had started with a petty rivalry between outer disciples of a neighboring sect but then became a massive issue as a core disciple took issue with their sect being disrespected by a backwater power.
The Yearning Flame Sect was a low grade sect known for its penchant for dual cultivation. It was normally quite amicable but its male members were known to do showy things to impress prospective partners.
