No qualifications.
Palishanya's words were resolute. Angel had thought it involved rigid class divisions or some other hidden reason, but after hearing Palishanya's further explanation, he realized the reason was actually very simple.
Its strength was insufficient.
Palishanya and Naimeicui had been born in the same era, and both had been born in the Lost Forest. Thus, they had known each other since their days as spirits.
However, differences in talent, coupled with their differing later fortunes, had ultimately left them worlds apart in strength.
But the issue of strength had not affected their friendship. Palishanya's continued residence in the Lost Forest was proof enough of that.
Moreover, long ago, Palishanya had even lived permanently at the heart of the Lost Forest.
It was only six hundred years ago that Naimeicui suddenly told Palishanya it was going into seclusion to break through to a higher level. Palishanya naturally supported Naimeicui's decision. Yet as Naimeicui entered seclusion, a vast, surging aura began spreading outward from its retreat.
The Lost Forest had always possessed a powerful aura, and Palishanya had once been able to ignore it with its own strength. But now, the pressure grew stronger by the day, seemingly without end, and Palishanya gradually began to struggle as well.
Palishanya could hardly go discuss it with Naimeicui, who was in seclusion. It could only endure.
Palishanya held out for more than three hundred years before finally being forced back. Unable to withstand the increasingly terrifying pressure, it retreated from the core region of the Lost Forest and settled in this area.
Palishanya had long known that the oppressive aura Naimeicui emitted was an aura that would unconsciously radiate once one's power surpassed a certain limit.
Naimeicui could restrain its aura, but doing so consumed a great deal of mental effort.
That