Shen Changchuan naturally had no way of knowing about the conversation between Situ Yuan and the others.
At this moment, he was half a step behind Hou Ping, racing through the high skies above the sea of clouds.
The biting air currents howled past. Amid the rolling clouds and mist, a shimmering glow of spiritual power surrounded Hou Ping and Shen Changchuan as they streaked like meteors toward the main peak of Ten Thousand Ren Peak.
Hou Ping calmly told Shen Changchuan of Situ Yuan's past, as well as the tangled grievances involved.
It turned out that
Situ Yuan had originally been a gifted disciple taken in by Master You Longzi several decades ago.
Back in their generation, he had been an almost invincible force who roamed unchecked through the Immortal Sect's Inner Sect. Thus, he had caught the eye of You Longzi, who had already been promoted to the late Spirit Wandering realm, and was accepted under him.
However, more than forty years ago, Ten Thousand Ren Peak suffered a major upheaval. The then-peak master, Mountain Mover True Person, was already sixteen hundred years old. After failing his final attempt to break through to the late Mysterious Pill realm, his lifespan was nearing its end.
Meanwhile, another Mysterious Pill realm ancestor, Qian Yuan True Person, had remained stuck at the early Mysterious Pill realm due to hidden dangers left behind from an early breakthrough. He too was now approaching the end of his life, with less than a hundred years of lifespan remaining.
On top of that, because of a certain past upheaval, Ten Thousand Ren Peak's younger generation had suffered a gap of two or three hundred years. Among the new generation of Ten Thousand Ren Peak's line, there was not even a Spirit Wandering realm peak cultivator