Not Associating with Petty People

This was Chen Yan's first time seeing the legendary figure.

More than seventy years ago, when Yun Yichen was still the Sect Master of Empty Mountain Sect and had yet to become the sect's Supreme Supervisor Elder, Chen Yan had served as the Martial Suppression Elder of Kongyuan Mountain. Back then, he had heard Yun Yichen recount tales of Li Haoran's younger days many times.

Even without Yun Yichen's stories, Chen Yan had of course heard plenty about Li Haoran's youthful exploits.

The foremost figure of the Immortal Dao in Chenping Continent, Falling Star Sword Immortal's close friend from eight thousand years ago, the Supreme Cardinal Elder who had held the reins of Empty Mountain Sect for seven thousand years—he was the only living legend in Chenping Continent to have witnessed the era before its Immortal Path was severed.

"This junior pays his respects to Elder Li!"

Standing in the hall, Chen Yan respectfully bowed toward the diminutive old man seated atop the steps.

Li Haoran did not answer at once. He merely studied the handsome young man before him, who had shed the gold-trimmed Cloud Crane-patterned Daoist robe that had once marked him as a member of Kongyuan Mountain and changed into a spotless white one.

A glimmer of something hard to detect flashed in his eyes.

"Congratulations, Supreme Elder Chen, on returning all things to unity."

After a pause of about half a breath, Li Haoran finally spoke to Chen Yan:

"From setting foot on the Path of Immortality to breaking through to the Seventh Realm, it took you a little over three hundred years... Your cultivation speed is not one bit slower than Yichen's."

Li Haoran was comparing Chen Yan to Yun Yichen.

"I had originally planned to summon Yichen into the Cardinal Court as my deputy