Qingchenzi had not never seen Zhang Qingyuan before.
Back when Zhang Qingyuan and One Page Scholar had used the East Boundary as their base to resist the Outer Realm Gods and Demons, Qingchenzi had personally set off to invite him into the Heavenly Court.
At that time,
he had seen Zhang Qingyuan's face.
Back then,
Zhang Qingyuan's strength had only just touched the True King realm.
Though his strength had been formidable, allowing him to reach the pinnacle of the Cultivation World from the mortal realm, he was indeed worthy of being called a peerless monster unseen for ages.
Among the prodigies who had risen abruptly over the past ten thousand years, anyone who saw him would have had to lower their brows.
But even so,
Qingchenzi, as the sect leader of the Taiqing Sect, one of the Four Ancient Holy Lands that had stood at the pinnacle of the Cultivation World for countless millennia, had still possessed the confidence to look down upon him.
At the time, Zhang Qingyuan's refusal had seemed to him like nothing more than seeking his own death.
So he had paid him no further attention.
It was hardly strange that he had thought so.
Because
though talented monsters could display stunning talent, rapidly break through realm after realm, and soar above Dao Integration Heavenly Beings at an unimaginable speed,
the road beyond that was not so easy to walk!
In his eyes,
Zhang Qingyuan had most likely obtained the inheritance of some Great Emperor or Great Power from ancient times by sheer luck, or perhaps devoured the Dao Fruit of some ancient Great Emperor.
That was why he had been able to break through continuously in such a short span of time, defy common sense, and possess such an incredible cultivation speed.
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