Just as these young members of the Lineage were growing suspicious, a black figure suddenly appeared.
Clad in a black robe that snapped in the wind, he stood tall and straight, his gaze cold as ice. A suffocatingly powerful aura radiated from his body, leaving no one daring to underestimate him in the slightest.
He was an ordinary guard Li Hengwen had stationed here, tasked only with receiving cultivators brought into the Myriad Phenomena Domain.
Earlier, when he sensed the aura of cultivators appearing, he had assumed that another batch of miners had arrived to report in and had immediately prepared to receive them.
Yet when he appeared and took a look, he found that every one of them was brimming with energy. Unlike the usual arrivals, none of them lay unconscious waiting to be awakened, and a trace of confusion rose in his heart.
Fine beads of sweat had already formed on the forehead of the leading young man. He tried to suppress the tidal waves of anxiety in his heart, but the flustered feeling refused to disperse no matter what he did.
He had never imagined that there would be other cultivators in this unknown space. More importantly, he could not see through this man's cultivation realm.
Furthermore, the overwhelming aura this man released without restraint left him unable to muster even the slightest thought of contending against him. There was only fear in his heart.
He could clearly sense that if they made even the slightest rash move, the man before them would not bother with any explanation and would kill them all on the spot.
It seemed that Longqing City had not been the first to arrive in this space. Before Longqing City came, other cultivators had already existed here.
As for just how powerful these