Lian Cheng smiled and leaned back. His eyes fixed on the elder as if everything were under his control.
"That is true. The laws of Heaven and Earth do not allow it. But as you know, laws can be bent, depending on who is bending them. Traveling from the Immortal Realm is certainly challenging, but not impossible."
"What!?" The elder's eyes widened in shock. Did this mean the stranger before him was someone from the Immortal Realm?
The elder tried to sense the stranger's cultivation, but there was no response from his spiritual probe. He considered applying pressure, but if the man truly came from the upper realm, that would be a foolish move.
The elder thought for a moment, weighing everything the stranger had said, especially the code phrase used to summon him. He was already eighty percent convinced of the man's authenticity.
