Chen Xuan was greatly astonished; he never expected to hear such intelligence.
No emperor?
"Then who governs this place?"
"Who else, of course, those cultivators whose eyes are practically raised to the heavens," Old Gu sneered, "You might have seen those jade-like coins, right? They are made by them, not much more useful than copper coins, just to show how special they are."
Cultivators ruling... but there is no emperor, doesn't that mean the ruler is not a single person? "Is the ruler a sect?"
"Oh, it seems you're not entirely ignorant about our place," the other stroked his beard and said, "But the reality is much more complicated than imagined. Those cultivators, in order to avoid inner conflict, came up with an alliance to 'discuss major affairs' just like a martial arts conference, and they call it the Immortal Alliance."
