"May I ask who this little Daoist friend is?" Yu Chenxiang asked with a beaming smile as she looked at me. She kept one hand hidden in her pocket and had never taken it out, so I had no idea what made it so formidable that people called her the Incense Divine Fist. "This junior is Xia Yitian." I performed a Daoist salute and gave my name. The two official Earth Immortals could not help showing a flicker of surprise in their eyes. Yao Zhongxi looked me up and down. "You're that Dao Comprehension cultivator Xia Yitian who killed Zuo Zheng?" "I was merely lucky." I answered. Yao Zhongxi nodded, but he still could not understand how I had dealt with Zuo Zheng. Given the difference in levels, even a hundred more of me would not have been able to hold Zuo Zheng back, yet I had somehow killed him. It was only natural for them to find that inconceivable. In fact, no one could figure out how I had done it. "Your name has been entered into our official records several times. I've looked through your files. Your life more than twenty years ago was utterly unremarkable, yet you've suddenly risen like a force from nowhere. It's simply unbelievable. The phrase 'peerless genius' was made for people like you." Yu Chenxiang smiled. "This junior wouldn't dare accept such praise." I answered politely. Since I had begun cultivating the Mysterious Arts, even a cursory account of everything that had happened would be impossible to finish in a short time. But reaching this point had not been a stroke of luck. It had all been bought with the times I had nearly lost my life.
"From the way you speak, you seem to understand the Calamity Disaster. I don't know whether