Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

Enveloped in mist, the gate of the Luoyun Sect was much more magnificent than before.

Su Chen frowned.

I was in a rush before and didn't have time to look at it carefully.

The Luoyun Sect today is vastly different from when Lin Wanwan and I returned last time.

The time I came back with Lin Wanwan.

The Luoyun Sect is still quite destitute.

At first glance, its foundation is in no way inferior to that of the former number one sect of the Xuanhuang Continent, the Starry Sky Dao Sect!

Even more so!

However, I am a little curious about what the Tai Xuan Sect is like now.

I guess I'll have to bring Lin Wanwan back next time.

I've never heard her say that she misses Qingzhou.

The disciples guarding the mountain saw the approaching person from afar and treated him with great respect.

"True disciple, senior brother."

"The True Heir".

Su Chen walked slowly with his hands behind his back, the hem of his dark robe being lifted by the mountain wind.

Wang Yuyan landed half a step to his side.

The gauze dress stained with blood had long been replaced by a clean, moon-white ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress).

Wang Mang lagged behind, his sword still resting on his shoulder, the weariness on his round face impossible to conceal.

"Su Chen".

Wang Mang lowered his voice.

"Your Daoist partner and I were, after all, the ones who killed Han Ye."

"Is it appropriate to come back so brazenly?"

Logically speaking, after killing the Nascent Soul cultivator nominally affiliated with the Tai Xuan Sect in the Luo Yun Sect, Wang Mang and Wang Yuyan should have laid low for a while.

We'll have to wait until this storm passes.

But Su Chen insisted on taking the two of them back to the mountain gate.

Su Chen glanced at him and raised the corner of his lips.

"What's there to be afraid of?"

"Since it's for my sake..."

"I'll take responsibility for anything that happens."

"Besides, I'm sure my master won't care."

That was a rather decisive statement.

But seeing Su Chen's confidence, Wang Mang had no reason not to believe him.

Could it be...?

...

The dignified Holy Maiden of the Haori Sect.

Naturally, he was used to being unruly and arrogant.

They looked down on cultivators from the lower realms.

Just look at the way this woman looks now.

Su Chen knew she was going to cause trouble.

A jade-like foot gently stepped down into the void.

The pressure of the Void Refinement Realm cultivator poured out from that silver ring.

The moment the spiritual pressure spread out, the dark mass of heads in front of the mountain gate all shrank by half.

The Golden Core cultivators all knelt on the ground, and even the Nascent Soul cultivators turned pale.

"Everyone's gone."

Lin Zhiya's voice was soft and sweet, yet it carried a condescending chill.

"Aren't you afraid of offending my eyes?"

The crowd dispersed in a flash.

Lin Zhiya had been used to that superior feeling since she could remember.

At Haori Sect, if she frowned, an elder would immediately step forward with a smile.

The moment she opened her mouth, all the senior brothers on the mountain had to prick up their ears to listen.

Su Chen watched this scene from the side and frowned slightly.

This woman is really troublesome.

Even for the smallest thing, they have to put on this airs.

"Don't be so ostentatious."

Su Chen casually remarked.

"This is the Luoyun Sect, not the back mountain of your Haori Sect."

Lin Zhiya glanced at her sideways.

"I am willing."

Su Chen was too lazy to pay attention to her anymore.

...

Just then, an aged voice came from the side hall halfway up the mountain, and entered Su Chen's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Let's forget about Han Ye's matter."

"I never intended to investigate further."

It was Li Changfeng's voice transmission.

Su Chen didn't stop walking, but the corners of his lips slowly curved up.

Old Deng saved himself a lot of trouble.

He raised his head and bowed respectfully towards the temple high in the clouds.

"Our master is deeply righteous."

"This disciple has finally lived up to Master's expectations from years ago."

Su Chen stopped mid-sentence.

He left half a sentence there.

High in the clouds, that ancient aura suddenly froze.

We will live up to your expectations.

Li Changfeng was no ordinary person; he instantly grasped the meaning behind those two sentences.

The source of the spiritual veins of the Xuanhuang Continent!

We've found the kid!

That thing that had been buried for who knows how many years is now in this kid's hands!

"good!"

"Okay, okay!"

In Li Changfeng's telepathic message, there was a hint of elation that even he himself didn't realize.

The spiritual veins of the three continents are complete, from Black Mountain and Qingzhou, but this last one is missing.

The thing I'd been longing for day and night was delivered right to my door by this kid.

"Let Wang Mang and your Daoist partner stay here!"

"Come to the main hall quickly!"

"I've missed you so much!"

Su Chen's lips twitched when he heard "I miss you".

This old man is usually as cold as a block of ancient iron.

Now, for the sake of this spiritual vein's source, I've even said things like "I miss you."

...

Beneath the cloud-top training ground, Lin Zhiya froze in place.

The pageboy, carrying his book box, also looked completely bewildered.

With Li Changfeng's cultivation at the Mahayana stage, even from several miles away, he could sense the arrival of the two with a slight sweep of his divine sense.

I am, after all, a junior who came down from the upper realm.

Regardless of whether my martial uncle welcomes it or not.

The two of them came here carrying news from the upper realm.

My uncle didn't ask about this at all.

On the contrary, he became so close to that disciple from the lower realm.

A simple "I miss you" is more heartfelt than anything else.

He ended up leaving himself stranded in the wind in front of the mountain gate.

Lin Zhiya felt a lump in her throat, unable to breathe.

She finally raised her head and called out towards the clouds:

"Uncle-Master!"

"Lin Zhiya has come from both the upper and lower realms to have a chat with you!"

There was an urgency in her voice that she herself didn't even realize she was hearing.

There was a moment of silence in the clouds.

Li Changfeng's aged voice slowly drifted down.

"Girl, it's you."

"I am busy right now."

"Elder Lei Sha of my Luoyun Sect will entertain you."

"I'll catch up with this lad before I summon you."

At that moment, Lin Zhiya felt her Dao heart nearly crack.

I'll call you back after I catch up with this kid.

He was summoned again.

She had never been left out like this before.

In the Haori Sect, whether it's the white-browed, white-bearded elders or the outstanding senior brothers of the same generation.

Upon meeting her, everyone treated her with utmost respect, first offering her three points of courtesy.

But at this moment.

Li Changfeng actually left behind the Holy Maiden who had traveled thousands of miles from the Upper Realm in order to catch up with that disciple from the Lower Realm.

Lin Zhiya bit her lip, her delicate hands clenching the edges of her gauze dress into wrinkles.

In those few exchanges, I really...

He admitted that, in terms of talent, he might indeed be inferior to that kid.

She didn't want to admit it from the bottom of her heart.

But the laws of space, the power of heavenly tribulation, and that jade pen that devours the heavens and the earth.

One by one, they were laid out before her, leaving her no choice but to recognize them.

Even so...

Even so, she was still the Holy Maiden of the Haori Sect!

...

Lei Sha led the way, his face taut and tense.

Ever since Han Ye was reprimanded by his master for that incident, this Nascent Soul elder of the Falling Cloud Sect has become increasingly cautious in his actions.

"Holy Maiden, this way please."

A quiet and secluded guest room; upon opening the door, one finds the furnishings to be quite elegant.

The boy carrying the book box bowed to Lin Zhiya.

"Holy Maiden, I live right next door."

"If you need anything, just call me anytime."

Lin Zhiya waved her hand.

...