Many of them had been silent figures in the Jianghu for decades, while others were recent cultivators who had achieved Innate status in recent years.
Among these experts, each proud and haughty with formidable strength, conflicts between the older generation and the new crop of talents were inevitable.
Nevertheless, they all had status and had weathered great storms, so even if there were conflicts, they mostly stopped once a point had been made. After gauging each other's depths, a few harsh words would be exchanged, and then acquaintance was acknowledged.
Before seeing True Immortal Chen, no one truly wanted to fight to the death with a fellow Innate cultivator of the same realm.
Even those with old grudges tried to restrain themselves, preferring to set aside personal enmities in favor of the chance at Immortal fate.
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In the Chen Residence, the courtyard with its little bridge remained, and the stream flowed as ever.
