Ved created avatars and made them leave the minor world. They spread out to all part of the world.
He was trying to find a way to break through his bottleneck. Unfortunately he couldn't take human form so he couldn't live in the cities.
However with his clones and stealth trait, he could closely observe his subjects without being discovered.
He didn't reveal himself to anybody, not even the leaders of those cities. He knew if he did they would fawn over him.
Time passed, he got to see Goldi from afar, the old man was really successful, he was adorned in gold chains and rings with beautiful spirit crystals.
He even had one of the modern runic tech car invented by a Chinese formation master through combining science with array formations.
The beast race didn't have this kind of technology yet so it was extremely hard to get hold of due to the lack of trade between the two races.
