Seeing how stunned the four were, Lan Huaichuan felt exceptionally pleased.
At last, he could let others experience what he had felt.
When he had first learned of this, envy and jealousy had nearly consumed him.
Letting others experience those emotions gave him a wicked thrill of schadenfreude.
"So, the man who remained unruffled even while facing a siege by a group of powerful cultivators inside the Divine Furnace was Daoist Jiang."
A plump Daoist holding a whisk tightly by its handle said, "But this old Daoist clearly heard that Daoist Jiang had not made it out of the Divine Furnace in time and had been taken away by experts of the Wildsea Royal Clan. Could that have been a rumor?"
Back then, Jiang Ping An's performance within the Divine Furnace had spread outside.
Many had heard that the Island Lord Residence had produced an extraordinarily powerful freak, and they had also heard that this freak had failed to emerge from the Divine Furnace in time.
At the time, many factions had celebrated the fall of this genius from the Island Lord Residence within it.
They had never expected him to still be alive, much less to have reached the Divine Power Realm Peak. It was simply unbelievable.
"It was not a rumor. I was indeed abducted by people from the Wildsea Royal Clan, but I later escaped and returned," Jiang Ping An said calmly.
"So that was it. No wonder the Freedom Alliance Intelligence Division learned the locations of those who had been taken away. That information must have been provided after you came out, little brother."
The only female expert among the four suddenly changed seats and moved closer to Jiang Ping An, a delicate fragrance washing over him.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Bei Shuangling,