True Immortal Yongheng made it sound easy, but he still explained Wuyou's background in the end.
Wuyou was half within the sect system, following a master-disciple lineage, which was why he had fellow disciples.
The Golden Glow Sect he belonged to had been founded by Golden Glow True Immortal, and its Nascent Soul Realm lineage had never been broken throughout its history.
The Golden Glow Sect had always wanted to advance into a major sect, but every time, it missed the opportunity due to one mishap or another.
This sect had been entrenched within Pangxing City's territory for a long time and had all sorts of complicated interests tied to the local area.
Like Great Leaf, Pangxing City was also a first-tier city. It was even livelier than Great Leaf City, though its level of prosperity was fairly average.
As an aside, although Great Leaf City was located on the frontier, this place really was not poor.
It had resources from being close to the sea, as well as unofficial foreign trade. Even the number and scale of its Spirit Veins were quite impressive.
Although Golden Glow only called itself a sect, the sect system here differed from Dongsheng's. Independent sects could possess Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
Since it was a sect, it could take in disciples. And since Golden Glow had never lacked Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, there was naturally no shortage of people willing to join it.
In fact, Wuyou and his two Nascent Soul Realm fellow disciples were not purely independent cultivators. All of them had family backgrounds behind them.
The family and sect systems in Central Province were actually quite distinct, but this sort of situation was still perfectly normal.
Any sufficiently large family would think about not putting all its eggs in one basket to