"Chen... Lord Sword Immortal?"
Yue Wen froze completely. Looking at the old man before him, he did not know how to pay his respects.
Instead, Chen Zhi'er waved a hand himself. "No need for formalities. Sit down and talk."
A Living Immortal had told him to sit, so Yue Wen naturally sat, though his mind was still somewhat dazed.
Not a trace of aura leaked from Chen Zhi'er. The gazes of Seventh Realm and Eighth Realm experts still carried pressure, but at the Ninth Realm, their essence, energy, and spirit were completely contained within.
His identity alone, however, placed tremendous pressure on Yue Wen.
After all, a Living Immortal was different from a Void Realm Dao Lord, and not merely by a single realm. From the Spiritual Energy Revival through the Dark Hundred Years to the present, there had only been a handful of such figures. In ancient times, they would have been reverently addressed as "Divine" and could have ruled an entire realm.
It was only because times were better now that he could still ponder what etiquette would be most polite. In the feudal society of ancient times, if he had been the slightest bit slow to kneel and kowtow before a Living Immortal, he would have been refined away on the spot.
Of course, the decline in Living Immortals' status today was not due to society becoming more open, but to the constant development and advancement of the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, which gradually increased the number of Ninth Realm cultivators in the world.
When there was only one Ninth Realm cultivator in the entire world, he was naturally an undisputed god.
Once there were more, they checked and balanced one another, making it difficult for any of them to hold power. The Human Realm's