The Mountain Protector Elder was a white-haired old man in the late Golden Core stage, who, although he regarded Li Shiqing and his two companions with slight pride in his eyes, maintained a fairly amicable attitude without attempting to make things difficult for them or, to put it another way, he viewed such actions beneath him.
After a round of investigation and confirmation, it was determined that Li Shiqing, the newly advanced Golden Core, indeed came from the Yunping State, originally a vassal power of the Yuanming Sect—the Li family of Da Rong Island.
"No problem," nodded the Mountain Protector Elder, summoning a disciple in charge of welcoming guests to lead them through the gates of Shen Leishan.
Compared to the Yuanming Sect, Shen Leishan was immeasurably higher in status. Its core territory alone stretched over a thousand miles, larger than the entire Yunping State, not to mention the peripheral areas.