The Luoling Sect's Judgment

When the gaunt man heard Chen Yan's answer, he fell silent.

A few breaths later, several chilling chuckles came from the cell opposite Chen Yan's.

"Good, a rogue cultivator!"

The hoarse voice grew louder.

"Then you really are a great villain, aren't you? You certainly qualify to be in this dungeon. Though you probably won't be here for long... The sect's bastards are likely drafting your execution order right now."

"I have never killed anyone for the sake of cultivation," Chen Yan said.

"So you just wanted to kill people, and happened to cultivate along the way. I get it, I get it!"

The gaunt man continued to laugh.

"I know a breathing method that uses my Innate Spiritual Energy to temper my bones and sinews," Chen Yan said calmly.

The gaunt man's laughter abruptly stopped.

Chen Yan felt completely at ease.

Though Chen Yan was now merely a Body Tempering Realm cultivator, his extensive experience and knowledge still let him see through the gaunt man's cultivation at a glance.

There was no sign that he had cultivated Destiny True Qi, yet his Spiritual Sense was far sharper than an ordinary person's—

Spirit 통 Realm.

The middle-aged man in tattered clothes, with disheveled hair and a scraggly beard, was a Spirit 통 Realm cultivator.

Chen Yan knew full well that although Luoling Sect was larger than any cultivation sect that had ever existed on Chenping Continent, in terms of overall strength, it could barely reach the threshold of the continent's top sects.

It was the sort of sect that the Five Great Sects could crush with a mere twitch of a finger.

And a Spirit 통 Realm cultivator, even among the Five Great Sects, was already qualified to serve as an ordinary inner sect elder.

In Luoling Sect, a Spirit