The Names on Fu Qian's List

Neither Chen Yan nor Lin Xinyang had expected to encounter an old acquaintance here.

But Chu Xiyao paying her respects to Fu Qian before the cold pool in Cangwu Studio was entirely to be expected.

Ever since the Dao Asking Conference on Chenping Continent ended several hundred years ago, Chen Yan had never seen Chu Xiyao again. This genius, once spoken of in the same breath as Qin Qingyu, had long since been swept beneath the rising tide of one generation of prodigies after another.

Now, Chu Xiyao was in the early stage of the Wanhua Realm, having condensed only a little over twenty strands of Destiny True Qi.

Back then, the sect elders had judged her talent to be on par with Li Haowen's.

But now, Li Haowen was on the verge of entering the Upper Three Realms.

As for Chu Xiyao, she had only recently entered the Wanhua Realm.

Several hundred years ago, after Chu Xiyao resigned as Chief Disciple of Qingchan Peak, the sect had abandoned her completely.

The two prodigies of Empty Mountain Sect's younger generation had now fallen nearly two hundred years apart in their cultivation.

As for Qingchan Peak, it had become a fiefdom ruled by Elder Zhengfa Bai Qiming.

Chu Xiyao could only collect Spirit Stones, pills, and other cultivation resources each month from the Shang Gong Hall on Qingchan Peak, an amount equivalent to what an inner-sect Core Disciple received. She was also kept "under house arrest" on Qingchan Peak.

Although her treatment was still better than that of many marginal inner-sect disciples, this level of cultivation resources was a mere cup of water against a burning cart of firewood when it came to Chu Xiyao's talent.

And because she was "under house arrest" on Qingchan Peak, Chu Xiyao could not earn