The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple

Chapter 1274: Chapter 379: A Subtle Smile from Shen Hanyi’s Lips

"Nowadays in this Fourth-level Cultivation Country, your name is truly well-known." Yama clapped and laughed, the bone armor emitting a crisp clinking sound.

"Such a young Fourth-level Array Master... truly has a boundless future." His tone shifted suddenly, becoming low and somber: "I have a clan brother who is also a Fourth-level Array Master, but unfortunately..."

He waved his hand, "Let’s not talk about it. Are you interested in joining the Yan Family? Within a hundred years, I guarantee you’ll step into the Spirit Severing Realm!"

"The Yan Family!" Zhao Muye’s eyes widened in anger, "Don’t you understand first-come, first-served? My Zhao Family has long invited Brother Zhou!"

Yama let out a disdainful laugh: "A bunch of brute fighters who only know how to swing their fists."

He looked at Zhao Muye contemptuously, "What would Master Zhou do in your Zhao Family? Help you lift stone locks and bronze tripods?"

He deliberately elongated his tone, "Over the years, haven’t there been enough Array Masters and Pill Masters who left disheartened after being ’warmly invited’ by your family?"

"You!" Zhao Muye was so furious that his Spiritual Power surged violently, but he didn’t know how to refute.

Zhou Qing stepped forward just in time, standing between the two, cupping his hands in salute: "I appreciate the kindness of both of you. However, I am naturally free-spirited and dislike constraints."

"Moreover, the path of arrays is vast like the sea. I have only just begun to glimpse its mysteries and need to calm my mind and comprehend its profound secrets."

Not far away, Xuanyuan Chong and others all had complex expressions upon hearing this.

They never expected that Zhou Qing would be so highly sought after by great foreign families now.

It seems that future considerations of the Taiqing Sect must be reassessed...

Facing Zhou Qing’s gentle refusal, Zhao Muye grinned, appearing quite smug.

Yama slightly frowned but soon smiled and said: "No matter, if you ever change your mind, the Yan Family’s doors are always open for you."

Zhou Qing just nodded faintly, his gaze inadvertently sweeping towards Shen Hanyi’s direction.

The breeze lifted the corner of her veil, vaguely revealing her slightly upturned lips...

The next moment, Yama turned his gaze to the four Xuanyuan Chong, a playful smile on his lips: "It’s said that it’s better to resolve enmity than create it, for any previous offense, I apologize to all of you here."

He casually cupped his hands in a bow.

Xuanyuan Chong, seeing this, cautiously returned the salute: "Taoist Friend Yan, you are too kind... Are you from the Celestial Fate Sacred Dynasty?"

"Indeed, from the Celestial Fate Sacred Dynasty’s Nanhuang State." Yama’s blood-red eyes flickered slightly, then he changed the topic, "I actually came here to ask if you could do me a small favor."

He raised his hand, directing Spiritual Power to condense an incredibly lifelike image of a young man in mid-air, "I wonder if any of you have seen this person?"

The man in the image had handsome features, a gentle smile at the corner of his mouth, yet giving off an inexplicable sense of detachment.

Like a smiling tiger.

Upon seeing the image, Xuanyuan Shuo’s pupils contracted abruptly but quickly returned to normal.

His heart was pounding like a drum, for he knew this person all too well!

Years ago at the borderland, he hid in the shadows and watched as this man performed a soul search on his apprentice, Jiang Pojun.

Moreover, from what he heard, this person was pursuing that silver-haired, veiled woman, and then perished?

Wait, could it be—

Quickly, piece by piece, the information connected in his mind, and a hypothesis surfaced in his thoughts.

The Qinluo Beast Demon Emperor island, with the formed obsession area, could it belong to this person?

No mistake!

I knew it, with even Spirit Severing Realm experts in the Dynasty and the number of Demon Emperors fitting, how could another Spirit Severing Realm obsession area just materialize out of nowhere?

Furthermore, that silver-haired veiled woman appeared repeatedly within the Dynasty, for a Spirit Severing Realm powerhouse to silently fall, who else could it be but her?

After all, the Spider Emperor Ye Luo was crushed to death with just a single finger from her.

Forget it, better less trouble than more.

Matters involving two top-tier powers, any misstep could plunge the Dynasty into endless trouble.

"Never seen him." The Old Emperor Xuanyuan Chong carefully scrutinized it then shook his head; after all, he hadn’t left the Imperial City for many years, then he turned to the others, "How about you?"

Xuanyuan Shuo and others all shook their heads, showing no flaw at all.

Upon hearing this, a trace of disappointment flashed in Yama’s eyes: "Alright, I was just inquiring along the way, after all, around Celestial Fate Sacred Dynasty, there are just a few Cultivation Countries, if you haven’t seen him, then forget it..."

Before his words could finish, Zhao Muye suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted: "It’s dawn! It’s dawn!"

The first ray of golden light pierced the clouds, perfectly illuminating his excited face.

But when he turned his head, all that was left was a space rift in the process of closing, with no sign of Yama.

"Damn it! Are you kidding me?!" Zhao Muye erupted in fury, "Old Bai! Smell out where that bastard went!"

Bai Xiang’s long trunk drew an arc in the air, suddenly settling on a position, emitting a low-pitched trumpet.

Without hesitation, Zhao Muye mounted the elephant, and as Bai Xiang’s front hoof stepped down, the space tore like cloth, and man and elephant instantly entered within.

"Gone."

Almost simultaneously, Shen Hanyi raised her delicate hand, silently opening a space rift.

She took hold of Zhou Qing’s arm and stepped into it, disappearing without a trace.

Xuanyuan Chong watched the successively closing space rifts, his brows tightly knitted: "The favor of the three great super families..."

He sighed lightly, "After plotting for so long, it seems we... don’t have that fate."

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