Although Heavenly Wind Ancestor's gaze was not particularly piercing, it was instead rather gentle and calm.
Yet even that gentle gaze, sweeping over them so casually, placed immense psychological pressure on Liu Yu and the other Golden Core Cultivators.
The man at the head of the hall stood above countless cultivators, an existence at the very pinnacle of the Cultivation World!
In the present-day Southern Heaven Cultivation World, Qi Refining Cultivators occupied the lowest rung, while those in the Foundation Establishment Realm formed its backbone.
Golden Core Cultivators, meanwhile, already belonged to the upper ranks of the Cultivation World.
They were either supreme elders of small or medium-sized sects, ancestors of great lineages, or powerful rogue cultivators whose names resounded throughout a region.
Wherever they went, they were figures who inspired awe.
The Nascent Soul Realm above them was even more elusive-a divine dragon whose head might be glimpsed, but never its tail-with a maximum lifespan of fifteen or sixteen hundred years.
They could sit and watch the world change, seas turning into mulberry fields!
Nascent Soul True Lords!
Even many Foundation Establishment Cultivators might never have the good fortune to meet a Nascent Soul ancestor in their entire lives.
After all, the Foundation Establishment Realm granted only a little over two hundred years of life, while a Nascent Soul True Lord might spend decades or even a century in a single seclusion, refining a powerful treasure.
To worldly mortals, they were already no different from immortals, so calling them "Earthbound True Immortals" was no exaggeration.
As for the even more distant Spirit Transformation Realm, it had all but become a legend.
Even Golden Core Cultivators like Liu Yu had never had the chance to meet one. That required a tremendous stroke of fortune.
Thus, in the present Cultivation World,