Yinan and Liaofan

Ling Qing and the others followed the man all the way to an assembly hall.

It was much like an ordinary conference room. At the very front stood a host's platform, with seats below it.

Tiered seating lined both sides.

But unlike an ordinary conference room, there were no chairs on the stage or below. Instead, everything was furnished with meditation cushions.

The half-meter-high cushions allowed people to sit cross-legged atop them or dangle their legs over the side like stools.

Clearly, they had been set out because most people were already accustomed to meditating.

Yet, in consideration of those unaccustomed to sitting in meditation, the cushions had been raised to half a meter.

Quite a few people were already seated inside, though most occupied the rear half and the seats along the sides.

The seats in the front half, as well as those on the platform, remained unoccupied.

"Daoist Lingguan and Daoqing True Person, please come with me. The other True Persons, please follow my colleague." The Special Affairs Department member at the head led Daoist Lingguan and Ling Qing to cushions in the front center.

Li Li and the other three took seats on the tiered platform to the left.

Once their places had been arranged, the man withdrew.

Daoist Lingguan began conversing with those who had arrived earlier.

There were only a little over twenty people seated there. That was no small number, because every one of them possessed Earth Immortal cultivation.

When Daoqing Temple had first opened its gates, the entire cultivation world had possessed only five Earth Immortals.

Yet now, so many had sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain.

It seemed there truly were capable people in this world.

Following Ling Qing and the others' arrival, members of the other sects also gradually began