Inner Sea, Bright Cloud Sea Region!
On an unnamed island shrouded by a mysterious grand array...
Inside a great hall!
"President, more and more powerful cultivators are arriving in these waters. How should we handle this?"
Within the Sea Dragon Association, a white-haired Golden Core True Person spoke with a face full of sorrow.
The Sea Dragon Association was neither a sect nor an immortal clan faction, but an organization spontaneously formed by powerful cultivators who roamed the Inner Sea!
Although there were virtually no sects or family factions in the vast Inner Sea jointly ruled by the Immortal Alliance and the Demon Race, organizations like the Sea Dragon Association were as numerous as the hairs on an ox!
Yet such organizations possessed little foundation, and even their strongest experts generally stopped at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
Moreover, experts at the Nascent Soul Early Stage were also few and far between in these waters!
The leaders of most factions were only at the peak of the Golden Core Realm, though the cultivators under them were almost all Golden Core Realm cultivators.
Therefore!
Within organizations like the Sea Dragon Association, the status of the many cultivators was relatively more equal.
Likewise!
Joining and leaving were relatively freer.
However, joining was far more difficult than leaving.
After all, they would be companions exploring and adventuring together in the future, so they naturally imposed extremely high requirements on the combat strength, background... and other aspects of cultivators wishing to join.
Those who failed to meet the standards simply could not join.
This showed just how formidable the backbone of such organizations was!
Otherwise, they would not have been able to cultivate in the resource-rich Inner Sea.
However, ever since signs of a Secret Realm's emergence appeared on Xianyang Island, everything had changed!