Inside the Riverside Cave Abode.
After learning the reasons behind the incident, Li Ping sighed with feeling. "A disciple of the Confucian Sect, a mere mortal, managed to make the Spirit Firmament Lineage swallow a bitter pill. That alone shows how formidable the Confucian Sect is!"
Meng Wanjun nodded in agreement.
Although the Three Elders of the Spirit Firmament were also elders of the Immortal Alliance, there were differences in standing even among elders. They were rogue cultivators, and with three nascent souls banding together, their combined strength might surpass that of most cultivation sects.
But the sects of the Righteous Path and the Devil Dao Sect faction, led respectively by the Supreme Unity Gate and the Heavenly Refining Sacred Sect, had formed their own blocs within the Immortal Alliance. They also had great cultivators at the nascent soul late stage presiding over them.
Even if an individual sect was weaker than Spirit Firmament City, its influence within the Immortal Alliance far exceeded the city's.
That went doubly for the Confucian Sect.
Although the Confucian Sect's overall strength fell short of the combined righteous and devil factions, its cultivators maintained an orderly succession of teachings, shared the same ideals, and suffered very little internal strife.
Unlike the righteous and devil factions, whose members sometimes fell into disputes and disagreed with one another.
Moreover, the leader of the Confucian Sect was also a great late-stage cultivator, so its highest-level strength was no less than that of either the righteous or devil faction.
As such, the Confucian Sect's dominance ranked among the very foremost in the entire Immortal Alliance.
Even the Three Elders of the Spirit Firmament, esteemed experts of the nascent soul realm, could only swallow a bitter pill when facing a mortal disciple of the Confucian Sect if they were