Inside the enormous thatched hut, Qin Fengming was the only person who could have spoken with such domineering confidence.
When he had seen Jiang Zhe and the other two appear and openly declare that they would protect the Su Clan, he had thought the matter might simply fade away and come to an end.
Who could have imagined that Hu Jie had acquired such an exalted status, one that allowed him to do whatever he pleased within the Heavenly Phoenix Tribe? Even Jiang Zhe and his two companions had been shaken into silence.
From Su Yun's explanations, Qin Fengming had already gained some understanding of how the Fengyang Clan ranked its tribes.
The Fengyang Clan's tribes were divided into seven ranks, from highest to lowest. These ranks were determined not by population, but by the cultivation levels of the cultivators within each tribe.
The lowest-ranking tribes were those without any Integration Realm cultivators. Such tribes stood at the very bottom of the Fengyang Clan and were also the most numerous.
Sixth-rank tribes had Integration stage cultivators, but only three or four at the early or middle stages. Although the Su Clan tribe had no late Integration stage cultivator, it had five Integration stage cultivators and could barely qualify as a fifth-rank tribe.
A tribe without a Spirit Severing stage cultivator could only be considered one of the lowest tribes in the Fengyang Clan.
For a tribe like that, what major tribe would be willing to offend a Profound Spirit cultivator who commanded five hundred Orange Guards?
Yet at this moment, a voice rang out. Its target was the man who had become a disciple of His Highness Zhuo, who commanded five hundred Orange Guards and was regarded by the Fengyang Clan's cultivators as the most likely to achieve advancement to