At the main gate of Heaven Dou City, the towering city walls rose a full hundred meters into the air.
The soldier guarding the gate wore armor forged from refined iron. It reflected a metallic sheen beneath the brilliant sunshine.
He looked at Chen An, dressed in shabby coarse clothes, with a dusty face and unremarkable features, with open disdain. But a moment later, that disdain twisted on his face.
"Who do you think you're talking to?"
Silver light shimmered in Chen An's eyes, and soul power surged around him, leaving no doubt that he was a soul master.
Chen An had come to Heaven Dou City to find members of the Body Sect and join them.
And how strong was the Body Sect? To put it bluntly, even if all the experts of the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family were bundled together, they would still be no match for the Body Sect.
Faced with a gate guard who relied on his scrap of authority to look down on others through a dog's eyes, Chen An might not have been an overbearing person, but he certainly would not swallow an insult.
When the gate guard saw that this boy in ragged clothes, with dirt stuck to his face, was actually a soul master, his previously straight back immediately bent.
The Douluo Continent had a rigid hierarchy. Compared with the hundreds of millions of ordinary people, soul masters were exceedingly rare. Even among several hundred ordinary people, there might not be a single soul master.
Every soul master was practically half a noble, with status and standing far above ordinary people.
For an ordinary person to offend a soul master was no small matter. If the soul master was displeased and secretly arranged their death, nobody would avenge them so long