Using people as bait

Hearing Chen Yuanye describe everything with animated expressions and dramatic rises and falls, as though he had been there himself, Lin Yu merely nodded without much interest.

"So that's how it was. A highly skilled Demon Lord was simply beaten to death."

"What was so special about his corpse that, even two years later, someone still had to hire an escort agency to transport it?"

As Lin Yu spoke, Chen Yuanye opened his mouth again.

"You don't know the whole story... Back then, five martial arts schools each found and took away part of Xie Chong's corpse. They claimed they wanted revenge and would grind the Demon Lord's bones to dust."

"But not long afterward, rumors began to spread that Xie Chong's corpse concealed an earth-shaking secret!"

"It was said to be a secret that could allow any martial artist to reach the Grandmaster realm. After all, judging from Xie Chong's experiences, he had indeed reached an almost invincible transcendent realm twice."

At this point, Chen Yuanye looked at Lin Yu.

"Junior Sister... since you've already seen the corpse, did you notice anything unusual?"

Lin Yu shook her head proudly.

"I didn't feel anything."

"On the path of martial arts, you can only rely on yourself no matter how far you go. Is there really not enough of your own techniques to practice?" Lin Yu looked at Chen Yuanye with some disdain. "To reach the Grandmaster realm by relying on a corpse... A Grandmaster like that would be better off not becoming one."

"Besides, it's the corpse of a Demon Lord. If Xie Chong truly made rapid progress in martial arts by killing his fellow disciples and murdering his master to prove his path, are you, Senior Brother Chen Yuanye, planning to imitate him?!"

By the end, Lin Yu was