Establishing Authority at the Gate

The Lingfeng Sect had been passed down for more than five thousand years. Every generation had never lacked Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to hold the fort, and it was a fairly renowned force in the Cultivation World of the Flowing Cloud Continent.

Moreover, to cope with the pressure from the three superpowers, the Lingfeng Sect had formed a loose alliance with several major sects unaffiliated with those three superpowers, making its position even more secure.

The present Lingfeng Sect was also enjoying one of the rare glorious periods since its founding. The previous generation's Supreme Elder, who possessed Fifth-layer Nascent Soul cultivation, still had two or three hundred years before reaching the lifespan limit of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, while the next generation's Supreme Elder, who possessed Nascent Soul Second Layer cultivation, was not yet fifteen hundred years old.

With these two Nascent Soul Stage cultivators holding the fort, and no possibility of a generational gap among Nascent Soul Stage cultivators in the next one or two thousand years, Lingfeng Sect cultivators were always full of confidence when traveling outside. They would not even spare ordinary small-sect cultivators a proper glance.

As those above acted, so those below followed. Even ordinary disciples behaved thus; naturally, the Golden Core Elders of the Lingfeng Sect were even prouder.

As a Golden Core Elder of the Lingfeng Sect and its chief Formation Master, Xiao Yuanshan held a lofty and weighty position within the sect. Only the two Nascent Soul Realm Supreme Elders, the sect master, and a handful of others stood above him. His reputation for arrogance was known far and wide even among nearby Golden Core Stage Cultivators.

Unless someone truly needed to ask something of him, even the other Golden Core Elders within the Lingfeng Sect did not wish to