Unattached cultivators were not necessarily weak.
Those who had made a name for themselves usually had a trick or two up their sleeves.
But cultivators who qualified to enter Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven had to have formed their Nascent Souls less than a hundred years ago.
In so short a time, Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators were often still consolidating their foundations and feeling out their own paths.
Those with a master naturally had it easier. Their Cultivation Methods, Magic Treasures, and even resources to aid their cultivation had all been arranged long ago.
The Dao Protector Yu Xu's family had found for her, for example, had once been the last leader of a Nascent Soul sect in the Southern Border. Though he had fallen so far that he had no choice but to join the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, his skills remained solid.
But an unattached cultivator?
In all honesty, Fu Qinglan had no confidence in one.
For people like them, successfully forming a Nascent Soul was already a stroke of heaven-sent fortune. How could they hope to make much progress beyond that?
They would probably spend most of those hundred years stabilizing their realms. For the rest, they had to search for Spirit Lands and resources, and might even lack a suitable Cultivation Method.
How, then, would they find time to nurture powerful Magic Treasures and sharpen their combat skills?
Unlike her and the other Dao Sect disciples, these Dao Protectors would do most of the fighting inside Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven.
Most of the other Dao Protectors were at the Nascent Soul Second Layer, or even the Third Layer.
The unattached cultivator her grandfather had found was only at the First Layer, according to his letter. Could he truly manage?
And Qi Xiongcheng, whom Yu Xu had