The Next Stage

In any case, acting too familiar and courteous would also cause trouble and lead the other party to feel like he had other hidden intentions, and although Di Tou didn't like looking at the world through the lens of cultivation levels differentiating one's status, creating a situation where a Golden Core cultivator wasn't 'qualified' to speak to him, he also understood it was just a part of this world's social structure.

Just like Earth had divisions by nationality, wealth, and cultural upbringing, the differences in cultivation styles, factions, and cultivation levels were natural social structures here. To act like they didn't exist would cause one to be an oddball, which inherently wasn't wrong or a bad thing, but right now Di Tou was looking for stability and was going through a negotiation process, so the last thing he needed was random variables and troubles to shoot up.