(I've finally finished editing the third chapter. Uploaded it. Three chapters today—nearly seven thousand words.)
Hearing the crowd's discussion, Qin Fengming could not help opening his eyes. Although he had long heard of Ouyang Chen's great name, he had never met him before.
As for his master, Ancestor Tianji, Qin Fengming had also heard of him long ago. Back when he was at Manghuang Mountain, his senior brother Shu Jingliang had introduced him to some representative figures in the Yuanfeng Empire's immortal cultivation world. Most of them had been Great Cultivators from various first-rate sects or immortal cultivation lineages.
Yet Tianji Zi, despite being only a mid Core Formation Rogue Cultivator, had received a particularly detailed introduction from Shu Jingliang, who was likewise at the mid Nascent Soul stage.
The reason was that although Tianji Zi's cultivation had not reached the Great Cultivator realm, his Formation Attainment had already reached the pinnacle. Even when facing a Great Cultivator, he could rely on his formations to contend with them for a while.
There was another, even more important reason: Tianji Zi was a demonic cultivator, and he had always been on bad terms with Manghuang Mountain. This stemmed from the time before Tianji Zi had taken on disciples, when he had gone to Manghuang Mountain three times, intending to challenge its Supreme Elder of that era through formations.
At that time, the Supreme Elder renowned for formations at Manghuang Mountain had been Ancestor Tianji's master.
Faced with a challenge from a Core Formation cultivator, the Supreme Elder's status was too lofty for him to appear personally, so he naturally did not show himself. However, out of regard for Tianji Zi's reputation in The Path of Formations, he still sent a cultivator to receive the challenge. That person had been the then