The Powers Waiting to Make Their Move

"Ling Wuyuan had not appeared for a long time. Several challengers had successively gone to Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to challenge him, only to be sent away on the grounds that Ling Wuyuan had extremely important matters to attend to."

This intelligence did not actually seem to have any problems.

After all, everyone had all kinds of matters that required their full attention.

For example, secluding oneself for arduous cultivation or exploring a secret realm and having no time to accept challenges was perfectly normal.

But when combined with Ling Wuyuan's previous conduct—

His attitude of beating up anyone who refused to submit.

His daring to beat up every contestant in the Imperial Grand Competition.

Even his initiative in changing the competition rules, using high-level manuals as bait to lure numerous audience members and later contestants who originally could not take the stage onto it, then beating them all half to death—

The situation immediately seemed rather unreasonable.

Ling Wuyuan was extraordinarily proud!

Even if they could only infer it from intelligence reports, everyone could see that fact with great clarity.

When faced with challenges from outsiders, logically speaking—

So long as the other party could demonstrate genuine qualifications,

Under normal circumstances,

Ling Wuyuan should not have refused them.

Especially not repeatedly—

Analyzing things based on Ling Wuyuan's personality,

There were only two possible reasons for this situation.

Either Ling Wuyuan truly could not get away, perhaps engaging in a deathly closed-door cultivation at any cost, or recovering from some grave injury after causing some major problem.

Or he simply was not currently at Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.

And someone who was not present naturally could not accept those challenges.

Next, although there were several possible truths behind the matter,

After pondering it over and over for a