Although Mi Tao and the withered old man were only suppressed by one simple stage, the withered old man is after all a member of the Demonized Organization, a great evil organization that has been passed down for thousands, tens of thousands of years. There's no telling what special Cultivation Techniques they might possess.
Therefore, it is quite normal for Mi Tao to be beaten without any power to fight back.
At the same time, Zhu Bufan also learned that in this world, there are masters at the peak of the Heavenly Sensing Stage, but whether there are masters at the Soul Transformation Stage or higher is not very clear.
But then, Mi Tao revealed another piece of information to Zhu Bufan; in this world, there exists a group of hermit families, some of whom have been in seclusion for a thousand years, and some even for ten thousand years. Therefore, whether there are any masters at the Soul Transformation Stage or higher among these hermit families remains an unknown.
