The setting sun slowly sank.
The setting sun's afterglow reflected on the river as a tower ship sped along its currents.
"Patrol Envoy Jiang, why have you stopped drinking?" Zhong Yue looked at Jiang Ning.
"She should have stopped paying attention to us," Jiang Ning said.
Hearing this, Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi secretly let out a sigh of relief.
The reason the two had shown no reaction when Jiang Ning handed over those spoils was that Jiang Ning had secretly transmitted his voice to them.
They both understood that when one's momentum was weaker than another's, one had to bow.
If they clashed with the Qingyang Sect, not only would they gain nothing, they would instead place themselves in danger.
The Qingyang Sect was a hidden great sect possessing a complete Grotto-heaven World.
No hidden great sect was simple.
Every one of them had been passed down from the Ancient Era to the present, possessing complete inheritances, numerous old monsters, and existences comparable to Immortal Gods.
They might even possess Ranked Immortals.
Although the world's environment had changed, it was difficult for that change to affect the minor worlds independent of the greater world.
Minor worlds such as the Shangyang Cave Heaven possessed complete world laws.
The Qingyang Grotto-heaven was even more so.
For this reason, the three understood that the old woman who had appeared had to be an ancient elder, an existence comparable to Immortal Gods.
Even in the outside world, because such figures cultivated the Ancient Path to Immortality, their every move could not draw upon the world's support, and their spiritual power was limited.
Their combat power therefore fell by an entire level.
Even so, they were still beyond the three's ability to match.
In the outside world, only top Great Grandmasters among Second Grade