"I don't know which elder it is."
Chu Yan shook her head as she spoke.
Everyone could not help feeling disappointed.
Just then, a streak of golden light suddenly appeared on the horizon, tracing a long flight trail across the pristine blue sky and immediately drawing everyone's attention.
"Has an elder from the higher sect arrived?"
"Do you even need to ask? With that incredible speed, and coming from the direction of the higher sect, who else could it be?"
"Stop talking. Hurry and welcome the elder from the higher sect."
Their expressions turned solemn, and they respectfully bowed with cupped hands toward the rapidly approaching golden light.
Standing atop the golden light, Zhang Yuan stopped above Jade Ravine Island. As he watched the great throng of cultivators bowing to him, confusion flickered in his eyes. Are all the cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm this polite?
"Eh? Who is this man? I've never seen him before."
"He looks so young. Could he be a newly appointed elder of the higher sect?"
"Impossible! If the higher sect appointed a new Purple Mansion elder, they would hold a grand banquet and announce it throughout these waters. How could we have heard nothing?"
"Instead of guessing back and forth, why don't you ask him? Don't end up mistaking him for someone else."
Noticing Zhang Yuan's unfamiliar face, everyone began exchanging secret voice transmissions, asking whether anyone knew him.
After a round of inquiries, it turned out that no one knew Zhang Yuan.
Old Demon Luo plucked up his courage and asked, "May I ask whether you are an elder of the higher sect, Senior?"
Zhang Yuan guessed that the higher sect meant the Azure Nether Immortal Sect. Unwilling to entangle himself in its karma, he shook his head. "I am [Return