In Cultivation, What Seniority Is There?

Xie Tingxuan, clad in a moon-white Daoist robe, smiled faintly as he looked at the two men with a friendly expression.

"Scholar Teng, Scholar Li."

Li Rui cupped his hands slightly. "Greetings, Scholar Xie."

Indeed.

Xie Tingxuan, once a prodigy of the Jiedao Sect, had become a scholar of Hongwen Pavilion not long ago, just like him.

After all, a Daoist son of White Jade Capital in Taihua Province like him needed only a word from Master Zhu to enter Hongwen Pavilion. Xie Tingxuan surpassed him by a considerable margin in both cultivation and background, so it was hardly surprising that he too had entered Hongwen Pavilion.

In truth, cases like theirs were not uncommon.

Hongwen Pavilion held no real power to begin with.

Allowing certain people of lofty status to join not only strengthened communication between the two sides, but might even preserve some inheritances. To the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty, it was a business requiring no capital, so naturally they were more than willing.

The imperial clan of the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty also often used this to befriend experts from the major factions.

Li Rui secretly sized up this former Dao Lord, who had been enlightened from the moment of birth and broken through the Secret of the Womb.

He did not dare underestimate Xie Tingxuan in the slightest.

He had once been a Dao Lord. Even without his Dao Fruit, his methods still far surpassed those of ordinary Spirit Severing Realm cultivators.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, what people feared most was not geniuses, but old monsters reincarnated like Xie Tingxuan.

Once one reached the Spirit Severing Realm, the proportion of reincarnators became much higher.

After all, even if a Celestial Realm cultivator made every preparation possible before reincarnating, the odds of embarking upon the Immortal