"Is that so?"
Lin Xuan's face remained neither startled nor pleased, and he made no unnecessary movement, yet the aura around him began to spread outward, bit by bit.
Along with it came an astonishing spiritual pressure descending from the sky.
Of course, Lin Xuan did not want to draw attention. He stopped once he had raised it to the peak of Nascent Soul Early Stage, but even so, it still made the surrounding cultivators turn pale with shock. Some with slightly lower cultivation even dropped straight to one knee.
"S-Senior... Senior is a cultivator of the Nascent Soul Realm?"
"That's right. Does Lin now have the qualifications to enter?" Lin Xuan's gaze swept over the gatekeeping cultivator's face, and he spoke as lightly as wind and clouds.
"Of course. For Senior to honor this place with your presence, this junior's master would be overjoyed." The fat man lowered his brows and eyes, respectful to an extreme degree.
The cultivation world followed the law of the jungle. Steering with the wind was perfectly normal, and there was nothing shameful about it at all.
Before his words had even faded, the man casually cast out a hand seal. A hazy white glow flashed, and a pitch-black hole actually appeared in the ground. Bluestone steps wound and twisted, leading deep underground.
No unusual expression appeared on Lin Xuan's face. With the strength of his divine sense, he had long since discovered that this place was concealed by a layer of illusory restrictions.
"Senior, please!"
"Mm."
Lin Xuan nodded and did not hesitate. Though caution never led one far wrong, he and Yue'er had both advanced to Lihe. At least as far as the Human World was concerned, there were already not many things that could threaten the two of them. There was