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"May I ask where the two seniors came from and where you are headed?" The two Earthcore cultivators, one man and one woman, looked us up and down. Seeing our attire, they immediately felt a sense of kinship. The clothes they wore were rather strange, giving them an incompatible air compared with the cultivators of the Nine Provinces.
The Daoist robes we wore from the Nine Provinces looked simple and dignified, while theirs were intricate and elaborately patterned, like a riot of flowers on an ethnic minority's dress. As a result, some of the more radical cultivators here felt that we were looking down on them. That was why Hu Qingya had changed my senior brother and me into these greasy-green Daoist robes covered in knobby patches.
Unexpectedly, the moment they saw us, their expressions brightened exactly as expected. Senior Brother Yan was not good at deceiving people, but I took out two identity plaques and said, "We are cultivators from Wanzhou, affiliated with the Anti-Divinity Alliance of the Nine Provinces. You two should be disciples of the Myriad Ages Immortal Sect, right? Could you take us to your Ascension Assembly?"
"Oh? Senior, you actually know of our Myriad Ages Immortal Sect? What an honor!" The female cultivator's opinion of us immediately improved. After praising us, the male cultivator quickly added, "Guests from the Anti-Divinity Alliance have arrived? Naturally, that's no problem. We were waiting here on the shore precisely to welcome guests from the Nine Provinces."
They did not ostracize visitors from the Nine Provinces. After all, with the Ascension Altar Assembly imminent, they could not successfully ascend without dealing with cultivators from the Nine Provinces. If they were poor at diplomacy, how could the other sects give them places to attend the Ascension Altar? If they heard