Luo Chen saw it clearly. The clothes of those Foundation Establishment True Cultivators waiting outside the hall bore, more or less, some emblem or insignia.
They either belonged to a family or bore the mark of a sect.
Although three Nascent Soul True Persons within the Ten Thousand Immortals Society had brought their own forces with them, the emblems of those three forces were not among the ones before him.
Wu Ruofu carefully explained from the side, "These people should be prodigies from Divine Origin City who came to the Three Oceans Defense Line through Old Sang's connections to gain experience."
"Prodigies?"
Luo Chen raised a brow.
His sharp gaze swept across them.
Sure enough, most of these Foundation Establishment Cultivators looked young, while even the older ones appeared no more than middle-aged.
Cultivators could use spiritual energy to nourish their bodies and preserve their beauty in their everyday cultivation, but that consumed spiritual power. Those with aspirations toward immortality would not do such a thing.
If an entire group looked like this, it could only mean that they truly were young.
Wu Ruofu nodded. "Yes. The current Righteous-Demonic War has grown increasingly chaotic. To guard against total annihilation after being forced into battle, some factions send the promising seedlings of their sects to neutral powers."
"After all, eggs cannot be placed in the same basket. Divine Origin City is the headquarters of the Heavenly Origin Commerce League, with the Heaven Origin Dao Sect of Central Province behind it. It is truly the safest place in the Northern Sea at present."
"These years, more and more young cultivators with outstanding aptitude have appeared in Divine Origin City. At first, when this junior saw so many people at my same realm who were decades or even a century younger than me,