"Who is this man? He looks quite young, yet he has cultivation at the nascent soul middle stage."
"This is my first time seeing him too. I've never come across him anywhere in the Heavenly South."
"Could he have only just advanced?"
"Forget whether he's newly advanced or something else. He's sitting in one of the three great cultivators' seats. With him acting so brazenly, we should be in for an interesting show."
Opinions flew around the hall. Some were displeased that Lu Shang had taken a seat at the head, while others whispered among themselves.
Old Devil Yunlu glanced at him, thought nothing of it, and chose a seat on the Demonic Path side, fairly close to the seats at the head.
A moment later, someone's arrival broke through the clamor inside.
Unlike Lu Shang, this man merely pushed the door open gently and entered, but he fell silent for a moment upon seeing the expressionless Lu Shang on the dais.
"It's him!"
He was none other than Dongmen Tu, Grand Elder of the Spirit Controlling Sect. Having investigated Lu Shang, he knew quite a bit about him.
Moreover, one of his sect's Nascent Soul Cultivators might well have died at Lu Shang's hands.
Dongmen Tu had originally intended to skip this meeting because a close friend from his sect had turned out to be a Mulan spy, but he had come after being persuaded.
And that was precisely how he ended up encountering Lu Shang.
Not only had the man before him cost his sect a nascent soul stage cultivator, he was now sitting in a seat at the head. Coupled with his close friend's betrayal, the thought alone sent anger surging through Dongmen Tu.
"Where did trash like you come from? Is that a place you deserve