Chen Yan only smiled, and didn’t say anything more.
He said Lin Xinyang practiced the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art?
No, that was impossible.
In the Chenping Continent world, the vast majority of cultivation methods channel and circulate true qi in essentially the same directions and manners.
Only a very small number of methods are anomalous.
The heart technique of the Weaving Dreams Tower counts as one, Chen Yan’s Purple Mansion Record, and the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art formed by integrating it with Kongshan Art, count as another.
The Hidden Immortal Art’s true qi circulation method should also be different.
But due to the Hidden Immortal Art’s technique characteristics, even if it differed, it likely would not be noticed.
As for Lin Xinyang.
Xiao Bo'an must have noticed that when Lin Xinyang circulated his true qi, the way his true qi flowed was different from what most methods used.
So he instinctively assumed that the technique Lin Xinyang was using must be the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art.
Suddenly, Chen Yan remembered what Lin Xinyang had once said to him on Xuanyuan Street.
“She said my true qi circulation is also very strange.”
According to Lin Xinyang’s words, the technique he was circulating back then was only Kongshan Art.
If he was telling the truth, there were only two possibilities.
One, Qin Yue’s judgment was mistaken.
Two, Lin Xinyang himself had some inherent problem.
Chen Yan’s brow furrowed slightly, then quickly smoothed out as he smiled toward Xiao Bo'an and said:
“The Purple Mansion Kongshan Art is not exactly a top secret within the Kongshan Sect, perhaps Senior Brother Lin has already taken it up.”
“I see.”
Xiao Bo'an replied.
“Then Chief Disciple Xiao, I will be going ahead.”
Chen Yan said.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Bo'an raised both hands and cupped them toward Chen Yan:
“Wishing Chief Disciple Chen continued success in battle.”
...
At the Daoyan Arena, on the viewing stand.
Chen Yan returned to the spot where the Kongshan Sect disciples were seated.
Lin Xinyang and Chu Xiyao sat to his left and right, and the empty seat between them was his.
Chen Yan walked back to his chair and sat down.
“Senior Brother Lin.”
He pretended nothing had happened, smiling as he greeted Lin Xinyang.
“Junior Brother Chen.”
Lin Xinyang likewise nodded toward the newly seated Chen Yan.
“How did the talk with Elder He go?”
Chen Yan asked.
At Chen Yan’s question, Lin Xinyang’s eyes dimmed for a moment:
“I told my master that there might still be a Valley Qin inside agent within the sect.”
“And then, what did Elder He say?”
Chen Yan pressed.
“My master said he would investigate thoroughly, and asked me not to worry about such things and to focus all my energy on the upcoming Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry.”
Lin Xinyang said:
“I feel like my master was brushing me off.”
He really was being brushed off.
Chen Yan thought so in his heart.
What else could he do, admit his connection with Valley Qin?
Although the evidence Chen Yan currently had could not directly challenge He Furen, based on the intelligence gathered through many cycles and Chen Yan’s present deductions, he could be certain everything that had happened was related to He Furen and the Huo Mu behind him.
It was just that, up to now, Chen Yan still did not know what their ultimate objective was.
What they planned to do on Heavenly Summit Mountain.
“The draw for the second round of the Heavenly Summit Dao Inquiry has been released.”
Chu Xiyao’s cool voice suddenly sounded.
“Has the first round all finished?”
Chen Yan asked, surprised.
“Mm.”
Chu Xiyao only nodded.
Chen Yan had not watched Chu Xiyao take the stage and duel.
He recalled that in a past cycle, when Chu Xiyao was seventeen, she had once fought Valley Qin in the Enforcement Hall courtyard of the outer court.
Chen Yan did not know the final outcome. He only knew that if Chu Xiyao needed to be protected, she would have been at a disadvantage in that fight against Valley Qin.
That did not mean Chu Xiyao was weak, because Chen Yan was well aware of Valley Qin’s strength and experience.
“Our opponents in the next round are mostly fine, but Chief Disciple Chen, you—”
Chu Xiyao suddenly paused:
“In the next round, your opponent is Ye Xiu.”
...
At this moment, on the other side of the viewing stand.
“Ye Xiu, what do you think?”
Zhang Zhuang, the Beiyuan Sect elder leading the team, asked Ye Xiu with some worry.
“Please rest assured, Elder.”
Ye Xiu said in a deep voice.
“Although Chief Disciple Chen of the Kongshan Sect is only an early Martial Spring Realm disciple, he is—”
“Please be at ease, Elder.”
Ye Xiu slightly intensified his tone:
“I will handle it.”
“...Very well, then.”
Zhang Zhuang had nothing more to say.
Ye Xiu was the unprecedented, unrivaled genius in Beiyuan Sect history.
If he developed smoothly, his future cultivation realm would surely start at the Unity realm.
That represented the potential of an upper three realms cultivator!
Although Ye Xiu had not yet fully realized that potential, his latent status within the sect already ranked above any elder.
Potential for the upper three realms was not guaranteed to materialize.
But for Ye Xiu, stepping up to the Qi Sea Realm and even the Passable God Realm would be a piece of cake.
“I’ll step out for a breath.”
Ye Xiu said, then stood and walked out of the Daoyan Arena.
“Hahahahaha!”
A remorseless old man’s mocking laugh echoed inside Ye Xiu’s mind.
“You brat, you’re so looked down on by your own peers. It’s laughable that a peak Martial Spring Realm cultivator would be worried about losing to a scrappy early Martial Spring Realm kid!”
Elder Mo taunted Ye Xiu.
“...Servility!”
Ye Xiu flushed and cursed loudly:
“That old bastard Zhang Zhuang always kowtows before the Five Great Sects. Even when he first arrived at the Heavenly Summit Mountain ferry, he let some outer court steward from Wind Ravine Valley shout him around!”
“Hmph, isn’t that normal?”
Elder Mo sneered:
“That Zhang fellow will never have any hope of breaking through to the Passable God Realm in this lifetime. He’ll be stuck on Beiyuan Sect’s little patch of land for his whole life.
“He fears the might of the Five Great Sects, so what’s so wrong with that?”
“But that Wind Ravine Valley outer court steward’s cultivation is far beneath his!”
Ye Xiu spat in anger:
“I will rip off the Five Great Sects’ veil of shame!”
“Hahahahaha, what an arrogant tone!”
Elder Mo laughed heartily:
“I wouldn’t have dared speak so grandly back in my day!”
“But I dare!”
Ye Xiu clenched his fists.
“Mind your limits.”
Elder Mo advised:
“Do not take Chen Yan’s life. The Kongshan Sect has already lost Qin Yue at this Dao Inquiry. If another Chen Yan falls, not even I will be able to protect you.”
“I understand.”
Ye Xiu reined in his fury and said coldly:
“I do not want Chen Yan’s life. I want to humiliate him, so that every time he thinks of my name in this life and the next, he will suffer for the rest of his days!”