What an old dog.
How had things come to look as though the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty simply could not do without him, Qing Chen?
He was utterly numb. When all was said and done, he was just an ordinary Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator!
Up north, they wanted him to go head-on against the Barbarian Race's Wang Tribes cavalry; down in the Southern Borderlands, they wanted him to disrupt Wu Gui's plans.
He was not some tattered rag for plugging whichever hole sprang a leak in Great Jin.
There were so many top Nascent Soul cultivators in Imperial Pole Hall, and even several Spirit Transformation Venerables. Did they not look far more dependable than him?
Just as that old man from earlier, some Right Director of the Clan Court who carried an inexplicable arrogance of the Imperial House, had said, he was still very young.
Of course, Qing Chen did not know the real reason Xiao Canglan had come to the Imperial Capital. The man was actually just taking a casual opportunity to disgust him.
This newly ascended Spirit Venerable might seem to have attained the exalted positions of Circuit-Surveying Governor of two circuits and Spirit Martial Great General, holding Heavenly Abyss Pass and wielding great authority over the Southeastern Lingnan Circuit, but his circumstances were not necessarily as comfortable as outsiders imagined.
He had only recently ascended to Spirit Transformation and effectively did not possess a single Spirit Treasure that truly suited him.
Although the Two-Circuit Circuit-Surveying Governor Seals were immensely powerful, they were, after all, weighty treasures of the Immortal Dynasty's fortune. Away from the great cities and fortune nodes of the two circuits, their power fell short of even supreme-grade Magic Treasures. They were also constrained at every turn by the Immortal Dynasty's laws and could not