Situation

Guqian County was a huge city, larger than most Immortal Cities outside, though it was far less prosperous and lacked any air of immortality.

Chen Lin did not go directly to the County Office to find Xu Qingyuan. Instead, he began looking around the city.

He soon discovered that more than half the people here were cultivators, but their Cultivation was not high. Most were in the Qi Refining Stage, with relatively few in the Foundation Establishment Realm. As for Golden Core-level cultivators, he had not seen a single one.

Even so, his expression turned grave.

Because after investigating these past few days, he had basically confirmed that the natives here were also suppressed in Cultivation, no different from outsiders like him.

In other words, the Qi Refining cultivators here might originally have been at the Foundation Establishment Realm, or perhaps the Golden Core Realm—even the Nascent Soul stage.

The current Foundation Establishment cultivators had originally been at least Spirit Transformation Cultivators. He himself had been a Spirit Transformation Cultivator, yet after being suppressed, he had become a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator. There were even Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators here. Their original Cultivation could likely have reached the Void Refinement Realm.

The entire city was packed with big shots!

Looking at the figures around him, Chen Lin sighed inwardly. They had once all been mighty powers who shook the world, yet now they had become peddlers and laborers.

They did not even know that they had once been powerful. The Ancient Kingdom Ruins had existed for who knew how many tens of thousands of years, and the memories of the people here had been reorganized countless times. They had long forgotten who they were.

What kind of terrifying power could cause such a mighty