Li Tianming had only hitched a ride, but he had not expected someone to set their sights on them and come looking for trouble.
He, Ye Lingfeng, and Lin Xiaoxiao were sitting cross-legged on the Azure Sky Jadefall Qilin, chatting, when a young man with one black eyebrow and one white eyebrow happened to pass by with a dozen or so people.
As they reached Li Tianming, they stopped. Pair after pair of cold eyes settled on Ye Lingfeng.
The black-and-white-browed young man was Bai Junce, a disciple of the Azure Soul Hall's headmaster.
Among the disciples of his generation, he ranked second only to Yu Ziqian and was known as the second senior brother.
"A member of the Ghost God Clan?"
Bai Junce raised his striking brows and looked Ye Lingfeng up and down, disgust and disdain showing in his eyes.
The Ghost God Clan's bloodline was distant from humanity's; they were hardly considered human anymore.
The Land of Order belonged to humans. The Ghost God Clan was scarce. Ghost Gods had risen to power in the past, but by now, they had largely been wiped out. Those who remained had little standing: most lived at the bottom of society or were treated like rats chased through the streets.
Li Tianming and the others did not know that the Land of Order had its own hierarchy of contempt.
Here, the Order Celestial Clan looked down on its branch clans, the branch clans looked down on the Origin Beast Clan, the Origin Beast Clan looked down on ordinary humans, and ordinary humans looked down on the Ghost God Clan.
Though Ghost Gods were individually powerful and formidable against others of the same level, their small numbers had kept them at the bottom of that hierarchy for years. Many sects and