Sun-Centered Golden Crow
"Which branch and which immortal palace are you from, sir? Why do you look so unfamiliar?!"
"We have never seen you before. I presume you are not a cultivator from an immortal palace of our Southeastern Branch of the Heavenly Dao Alliance. State your name, and we will send someone to investigate your background!"
"Indeed! The immortal-demon war in the Blood Sea is raging fiercely. Cultivators from every branch are making rigorous preparations for battle, and no one may leave the front lines without cause. Rather than staying in the immortal city under your branch's jurisdiction, why have you come to our Black Sand City? There is much about your conduct that is suspicious! If you cannot explain yourself clearly, then we can only invite you to take a trip to the city lord's manor."
Before Ye Qin could say much of anything, several young Nascent Soul Cultivators near the Spirit Fox Demon Saint had already fixed him with suspicious, gloomy gazes. They interrupted him and sternly interrogated him.
Though Ye Qin was a fourth-layer Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, a cut above this group of Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, they truly did not regard him highly.
Perhaps in the eyes of Golden Core cultivators, Nascent Soul ancestors all stood high above the masses, lofty in status. But even among Nascent Soul Cultivators, there were strict divisions of rank. A Nascent Soul Cultivator's standing in the cultivation world depended first on their own strength and renown, and second on the power of their backing. If one possessed neither formidable strength nor fame, nor a powerful faction behind them, then they were practically without status.
Ye Qin was only at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. Among Nascent Soul Cultivators, his strength could not yet be called particularly