"Who? Who was speaking just now?"
The burly man's expression darkened. Following the voice, he looked toward the second floor of the tavern. "How can my Yuhuo Cult allow outsiders to meddle in our affairs?"
As he spoke, he stopped concealing his aura.
A powerful surge of Mana, signifying the late stage of Foundation Establishment, emanated from him.
A cultivator at the late stage of Foundation Establishment was powerful enough to support an entire family.
Many cultivators in the tavern immediately looked shocked.
The Dao Commencement Assembly was attended by disciples under thirty from all the various immortal sects.
After all, the Yuhuo Cult wasn't exactly a major sect. Given that the burly man had reached this level of cultivation at his age, it wasn't hard to understand why he was so arrogant.
But don't assume cultivating immortality is easy just because Lu Bai's cultivation had shot up like a rocket.
Among the immortal sects participating in the Dao Commencement Assembly, many of the smaller ones still had Qi Refining cultivators as the strongest members of their teams.
The youth sitting on the tavern's second floor showed no fear. He picked up a cup of wine, downed it in one go, and spoke with a hint of drunkenness. "What? You think a little bit of cultivation gives you the right to act like this?"
As the burly man revealed his cultivation, several well-informed cultivators evidently recognized him.
"Could that man be Xi Ao Yan?"
"That's right, it fits. I heard the Yuhuo Cult Leader discovered him while traveling and brought him straight back to the cult to train personally. He began cultivating at eight, advanced by leaps and bounds, and was hailed as the most prodigious genius the cult had seen in a century."
"They say he reached Foundation Establishment