Before long, led by that disciple, Lu Ren arrived before a palace.
At that moment, more than a dozen cultivators had gathered outside the palace. Each wore strange and varied attire as they waited, seemingly all Artifact Refiners seeking to join the Zhao Family.
When those Artifact Refiners saw the Zhao Family disciple bringing Lu Ren over, they all swept their gazes across him. Upon noticing that Lu Ren possessed only Golden Immortal Realm strength, they withdrew their gazes.
"You can wait here. These are all Artifact Refiners. Once our Zhao Family's assessment elder arrives, he will assess you all together!"
After giving this instruction, the Golden Immortal Realm disciple left directly.
"A mere Golden Immortal dares to take part in the assessment? He truly doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
"A fifth-tier artifact refiner at the Golden Immortal Realm would never come to the Zhao Family!"
Quite a few Artifact Refiners began passing judgment on Lu Ren.
Lu Ren merely shrugged and paid them no mind. A fifth-tier artifact refiner had to be at least in the Immortal King Realm. Since he, a Golden Immortal, had come to take the assessment, suspicion was only natural.
However, Lu Ren frowned slightly, because one of the elders had caught his attention.
That elder wore coarse hemp clothing and was covered in the dust of travel, looking like an utterly ordinary elderly Rogue Cultivator.
This man had deliberately concealed his aura, but he could not escape Lu Ren's Chaos Eyes.
That elder was not an Immortal King at all, but a Ten Thousand-Tier Immortal powerhouse.
Lu Ren's own Immortal Soul had already reached the peak of the Legendary level. Combined with his Chaos Eyes, ordinary concealment methods found it difficult to evade his scrutiny.
*What is this man's purpose in