Yang Qing noticed most of the domain-level guests all had the same reactions, the moment he did, while some like Lin Guiren from Golden Bamboo Pavilion and Yan Meifeng from Maple Leaf Manor seemed to have noticed the six guests earlier than Yang Qing.
No matter when they discovered them, every single person had looks of shock on their faces.
Within a few seconds, the six guests appeared at one of the entrances of the Star blooming mist valley.
The moment they appeared, Yang Qing noticed Su Bai disappear from his seat and reappeared at the entrance the six guests had appeared in.
Yang Qing's pupils constricted because he didn't even detect the Spirit Council member disappear. He only realized it when he saw him with the guests.
The six guests were in two groups and they both wore different robes and had contrasting demeanors.
The moment Yang Qing saw them, it all made sense on who would be able to send a soul formation expert with no worry about their base. At face value, only three people met that criterion; one was the Order and the other two were the Holy Lands.
The six guests were from the two holy lands and they had both sent three members each, almost as if they had a prior agreement.
The group from the Radiant Sword Sect wore peach robes that had an emblem of swords revolving around a mountain, which was their insignia. At the lead was an elderly man with white hair neatly tied into a bun, with not a hair out of place. He was tall and walked with measured steady steps and if one looked closely, it almost seemed like the ground was carrying him forward instead of him walking. At his waist was a simple sword in a grey wooden scabbard that looked to have experienced the vicissitudes of life. It was faded and had a few scratches on it. One wouldn't expect someone from the Radiant Sword Sect, one of the two holy lands, to have such a scabbard.
"Is he a core elder or supreme elder?" Yang Qing wondered as his gaze trailed from the old man to the people next to him.
Behind him were two males; one of them looked to be just about 14 years old. He had black hair that was tied in a Daoist topknot. His eyebrows and eyes were as sharp as blades edge. At his waist was a single long sword sheathed in a charcoal black scabbard.
Unlike the elderly man in front of him who looked like an ordinary person, the 14-year-old youth might have well been a sword in human form because of how much unbearable sharpness was leaking from his body.
Some of the weaker guests had even bled from their eyes just by throwing a quick glance at him. Though the most shocking part about the youth wasn't his sword-like demeanor, but his cultivation realm. At the tender age of 14, most of the senior cultivators had looks of shock on their faces when they detected his palace realm cultivation base. Yang Qing discovered he was in the second stage of the palace realm.
Even though he tried to hide it, one could detect the inborn pride and arrogance coming from him.
Next to the 14-year-old palace realm cultivator from the Radiant Sword Sect was a young man who seemed to be in his late twenties to early thirties. Yang Qing's gaze narrowed as he saw an additional symbol next to the sect's emblem. It was a heart that had a sword in it. He automatically knew what that signified, since he had seen someone with that symbol on their robe when he was competing at the One thousand hall battle palace. The person who took first place, and was from the Radiant Sword Sect, had that symbol on their uniform and said person was a sword heart disciple of the sect.
This could only mean that the late twenties to early thirties member of the Radiant Sword Sect was also a sword heart disciple, which was a rank held by the best talents in the whole of the sect. Anyone who held that rank had gone beyond the realm of genius and had firmly placed their feet in the ranks of pure monsters.
This was already evident because the fluctuations of that disciple drew even more eyes than the 14-year-old palace realm cultivator beside him. The reason for that was his domain level fluctuations, even though it seemed like he had only broken through recently, it was still an eye-opener since that meant he was a thirty-something domain expert which was rarer than a 14-year-old early-stage palace realm expert.
Next to them was the group from the Flowing Valley Sect, and just like the Radiant Sword Sect, they too, were a holy land. They had on light green robes that were edging closer to yellow. In the lead was a young man who looked to be in his mid-thirties. His hair was black, long, and lightly curled, and he had this otherworldly beauty to him that would draw anyone in, irrespective of gender or even species.
Behind him were two people, a young man, and a young lady, though the latter seemed more mature of the two. The young man looked to be in his late teens to early twenties. From what Yang Qing could gauge that young man was definitely younger than him, though it did not seem by much. However, despite being younger, the young man had a higher cultivation base than him, like way higher. The young man was already in the peak stage of the palace realm.
"Is he….?" Yang Qing wondered.
The young age and the high cultivation base, there was one person who met that criterion from the Flowing Valley Sect, and it was the current holder as the youngest palace realm cultivator over the past century, who broke through to the palace realm at 11 years. If the person he saw was that same person, then the absurd cultivation realm made sense. Ten years had passed since then.
The lady next to him looked to be in her late thirties and she was in the first stage of the domain realm just like the sword heart disciple from the Radiant sword sect side.
Both disciples from the Flowing Valley Sect had a gold leaf symbol on their robes which Yang Qing recognized as the symbol highlighting that both were saint leaf disciples of the sect, which was the equivalent of the Sword heart disciples from the Radiant Sword Sect.
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"Fellow Daoist Han Meng, Fellow Daoist Luo Yong, I'm glad you could all make it in time for our humble festivities," Spirit council elder Su Bai said as he cupped his fist in greeting toward the Radiant sword sect elder and the Flowing valley sect elder respectively.
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