"Could they be putting on an act for us on purpose?"
This elder was named Ximen Tianyun.
His name was truly imposing, but his cultivation was only at the Third-tier Heavenly Venerate.
Even though he had become an elder, he held little authority within the sect. If not for his relationship with Ximen Li as granduncle and grandnephew, he likely would never have attained his current position.
Precisely because his cultivation and status were insufficient, he had been assigned such a task.
Yet as a sect elder, he knew quite a bit about the people within the sect.
Even the hidden seed disciples—he had heard of nearly all of them, and had met more than half.
But among those people, he dared say there was no one like the person before him.
Not to mention that among the people following behind this man, he did not recognize a single one.
Could this group, like those dozen or so people, be a performance arranged by some great power?
Ximen Tianyun did not live as comfortably in the Chasing Stars Sect as those with genuine status and authority, but his loyalty to the sect was absolute.
His strength was too low, so he understood clearly that if the Chasing Stars Sect fell, even if he could join another faction, he would definitely only be a lowly errand-runner.
To ordinary people outside, the Heavenly Venerate Realm might seem very lofty.
Only someone like him, who could come into contact with the true core of a faction, understood that Heavenly Venerates below the Seventh Tier were not much different from those at the Heaven Star Position.
If someone at the Heaven Star Position had a decent backer, the life they lived within a faction would definitely be better than that of many fifth or