He Li immediately felt relieved when he got all of that out. Maybe it was his imagination, but he could feel the looks of respect and fear in Zu An and the emperor’s eyes.

  He was a cultivator at the peak of the ninth rank after all, someone who received respect wherever he went. Even in a place like the capital where cultivators were more widespread, his presence still carried considerable weight.

  And yet it was precisely his arrogant self who had constantly been overshadowed..