Su Xin had no particular feelings about these reclusive Jianghu powerhouses, but now they wanted to step forward and pressure him, to interfere with his killing of Gongyang Qi—this was something Su Xin could not tolerate.
Moreover, Su Xin's earlier words had not been entirely an indiscriminate broadside. At present, at least most reclusive independent cultivators were indeed like this.
When reclusive cultivators went into seclusion, most of them entered life-and-death closed-door cultivation. If they did not succeed, there was only one road left for them: silent extinction and a return to ruin.
Those who chose to emerge now had either succeeded, or harbored distracting thoughts and had never truly entered life-and-death seclusion, like that Gongyang Yu.
Even if such people cultivated in seclusion for a hundred years, their progress would remain extremely limited. They were nothing to worry about.
But at that moment, a somewhat displeased voice rang out.
"Lord Su, those words are mistaken. When we went into seclusion in the past, who could have foreseen that Great Jin, then blazing like the noonday sun, would collapse completely in merely a dozen years? Slandering the senior powerhouses of the former Jianghu behind their backs is not the conduct of a gentleman."
At that moment, a handsome young man dressed in white approached from the distance. He too possessed Soul Fusion Realm cultivation.
Yet everyone present could see that this man was even younger than Yan Dongchen had been. His actual age was likely only a little over thirty.
Reaching the Soul Fusion Realm at such an age was simply too terrifying.
The crowd subconsciously turned their gazes toward Su Xin. After all, this man seemed to have entered the Soul Fusion Realm at an even younger age than the person before them.
Su Xin turned his gaze toward