Mr. You had left.
He had likely already departed from Moxu Mountain.
However, with Chen Yan's current Unity realm spiritual sense, he was completely unable to track the Immortal Venerable's whereabouts.
The sky was gradually darkening.
Tomorrow at the Hour of the Snake, the special envoy from Mirage Palace would once again summon all cultivators above the Qi Sea Realm from Moxu Mountain at the tea house in Wushi Town.
Then, the people from Mirage Palace would gift that sheepskin parchment, supposedly inscribed with a "fragment of the Heavenly Summit Mountain scripture," to "Chu Fan."
Thinking about it was rather amusing.
Both the fragment of the Heavenly Summit Mountain scripture and Chu Fan were as illusory as a mirage, utterly false.
Seated by the window, Chen Yan lightly closed his eyes, resting his left hand on the windowsill outside, gently tapping the stone ledge as he faced the evening breeze.
Chen Yan looked toward the direction outside the inn.
He saw a middle-aged man, clad in an expensive-looking purple-gold daoist robe, leading a group of more than ten swordsmen in a grand procession toward the inn.
By his side was a young boy who appeared to be around fourteen or fifteen years old.
It was precisely the Young Manor Lord who had clashed with Little Su that afternoon.
They were people from the Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor.
The middle-aged man at the lead had a late-stage Qi Sea Realm cultivation.
He must be the Manor Lord of Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor.
And slightly behind and to the side of this middle-aged man and his son was another stern-faced man, about thirty years old, at the peak of the Martial Spring Realm.
Aside from these few, the other swordsmen included two or three who were also above the Martial Spring Realm.
As for the rest, the lowest cultivation among them was at the late stage of the Qi Circulation Realm.
It seemed he would have to handle these troubles himself.
Chen Yan thought to himself.
However, he was unwilling to appear in person, because he did not want the Grand Elder Jing of Mirage Palace to detect his trail.
But Chen Yan still had his own solution.
A wisp of natal spiritual energy seeped out from the tip of Chen Yan's finger, and then this wisp of clear-colored spiritual energy began to slowly expand, taking shape into a human figure.
An External Incarnation.
It was not formed from heaven and earth spiritual energy or the spiritual energy in his own qi sea.
Instead, it was derived from his natal spiritual energy.
At present, there was no difference between an External Incarnation derived from natal spiritual energy and one formed from qi sea or heaven and earth spiritual energy.
But Chen Yan was certain of one thing.
If his cultivation realm reached the Divine Ability Realm or higher, the External Incarnation derived from his natal spiritual energy would be able to use his natal divine ability.
The natal divine ability was the dividing line between a Unity realm cultivator and a Divine Ability realm cultivator.
In fact, the vast majority of Divine Ability realm cultivators throughout history who had learned a natal divine ability found it quite mediocre.
But as everyone knew, the natal divine abilities obtained by Divine Ability realm cultivators from Heavenly Summit Mountain were generally half a level above those of the Divine Ability realm cultivators from the Five Great Sects.
Among the cultivators above the Divine Ability Realm from Heavenly Summit Mountain, the one with the most powerful natal divine ability was the tenth-generation steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain, Pure Dust True Person.
The reason Pure Dust True Person had become the Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator with the strongest sustained combat ability and the least backlash from the collapse of heavenly laws was precisely because of her natal divine ability.
And Qiu Siruo's strength had also sparked a conjecture within the cultivation world of Chenping Continent.
The strength of a natal divine ability was likely related to the cultivation method one practiced and the level of one's comprehension.
For example, Pure Dust True Person, due to her naturally Glazed Pure Body, did not practice the Heavenly Summit Mountain scripture as her cultivation method, but rather the Pure Dust Glazed Art.
Aside from Pure Dust True Person, if another outstanding figure from the Five Great Sects with a remarkable natal divine ability were to be mentioned, it would be True Person Kongmiao of Kongshan Sect, Yan Yunhe.
Qiu Siruo practiced the Pure Dust Glazed Art, while Yan Yunhe created the Kongshan Annotation of True Understanding on his own.
These two great powers of the Immortal Ascension Realm were either perfectly in sync with their own cultivation methods or had almost complete mastery over the cultivation methods they had developed.
Therefore, their natal divine abilities far surpassed those of ordinary cultivators.
This was a speculation within the cultivation world of Chenping Continent, not fully confirmed one hundred percent.
But if it were true, then Chen Yan, whose Hidden Immortal Art had already reached a masterful level, would definitely obtain a natal divine ability of no low grade.
For the vast majority of Divine Ability realm cultivators, the natal divine ability was relatively mediocre.
For most cultivators at the Eighth Realm, the improvement of the Divine Ability Realm was more about a further quantitative change in spiritual sense and spiritual energy.
Those cultivators from Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor had already taken their positions in the inn's courtyard.
"Where are the two who clashed in this courtyard this afternoon?" the middle-aged man at the lead, dressed in the purple-gold daoist robe, declared loudly.
Just as Mr. You had said earlier, the Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor could be considered one of the cultivation sects around Moxu Mountain whose status was only slightly below that of the Han Crow Sect and the Jiugong Sect.
The current Manor Lord of the sword manor was Duan Ziyi, a late-stage Qi Sea Realm cultivator, Lord Duan.
And the Sword Holder of Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor was Wang Yuzhe, a young talent who had only just turned thirty-one and had already reached the peak of the Martial Spring Realm.
If nothing unexpected happened, it was already a sure thing that Wang Yuzhe would step into the Qi Sea Realm within a few years.
When that happened, the prestige of Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor would certainly rise another level around Moxu Mountain.
As for the owner of this Moxu Inn, the Qingmo Sect, its current sect leader was only at the early stage of the Qi Sea Realm.
Although both were at the Qi Sea Realm, the Qingmo Sect's foundation was shallow and had no standing at all in front of the Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor.
In fact, when the Young Manor Lord of Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor, Duan Tai, came to rest at the Moxu Inn, the inn didn't even charge him money.
Seeing the Manor Lord of Fuliulin Willow Sword Manor arriving in person, the innkeeper, a cultivator from Qingmo Sect at the early stage of the Martial Spring Realm, immediately rushed into the courtyard with a flattering smile:
"Lord Duan, please calm down. Lord Duan, please calm down. Let's talk things over. Why make such a big fuss?"
But Duan Ziyi completely ignored the innkeeper of Moxu Inn and continued shouting toward the inn:
"Where are the two who clashed in this courtyard this afternoon?"
"Oh dear, Lord Duan..."
The innkeeper of Moxu Inn appeared flustered and uncertain.
Just as he was about to begin his words of appeasement, two figures in gray daoist robes emerged from the inn.
Both looked to be only about thirteen or fourteen years old.
It was Zhou Jinyun and Su Hongzhen.
"Senior, what business do you have with the two of us?"
Zhou Jinyun's voice was neither humble nor arrogant, speaking slowly.
Although her current cultivation was only at the mid-stage of the Martial Spring Realm, she was confident that even against an opponent at the late-stage Qi Sea Realm, she had sufficient ability to handle the situation.