By comparison.
Xiang Haoqian and the others, along with the retainers and guest elders who had joined later, remained much calmer.
The only ranked faction Li Yongchang and his companions had ever joined was the Origin Sect.
They did not even know.
If they were expelled from the sect, the cultivation levels they had gained through its advancement would be taken back.
On this matter.
Xiang Haoqian and the others knew all too well.
Having reached their current heights, they could hardly have never joined another faction. They had already experienced such things before.
If a sect's advancement.
Meant it was favored by the fortune of heaven and earth.
Then the cultivators whose realms rose alongside it also shared in the sect's blessings and received the favor of heaven and earth.
Likewise.
If cultivators were expelled from the sect, its blessings would vanish from them as well.
In their place.
Whatever they had gained before would now have to be returned.
In that case.
Strictly speaking, the strength gained through a sect's advancement could not be considered entirely their own.
But by the same token.
If they cultivated on their own during that period, even being expelled later would not send them all the way back to square one.
As for Li Yongchang and his companions.
They had clearly never truly cultivated. They were more like parasites on the sect, passively waiting for their faction to advance so they could soar to the heavens in a single leap.
In the end.
Li Yongchang and the others left the Origin Sect.
No matter how they pleaded, Qin Shujian remained unmoved.
The Origin Sect's faction rank had been rising too quickly.
In just two short years.
It had shot straight from a zero-level faction to a fifth-level faction. Many people had become