At that very moment, a hundred li away.
A figure in plain white streaked through the low sky, followed by three figures in dark Daoist robes, hot on his heels.
Chen Yan's External Incarnation was in quite a sorry state.
The three unidentified Immortal Cultivators pursuing him were all in the Wanhua Realm.
His External Incarnation, however, was only in the Spirit 통 Realm.
Not long after attending the Purple Sky Sect's Dao Discussion Conference, before Chen Yan had even had time to gather much intelligence, he realized that someone had set their sights on him.
As for why they had targeted him...
Spirit stones?
It was certainly possible that they were after his spirit stones, but Chen Yan believed that, rather than those, what these people wanted was probably something else—
The Fragment of the Purple Mansion Record.
But if the Fragment of the Purple Mansion Record had been their objective from the outset, why had they not bid against him at the auction instead of choosing to "kill and plunder"?
Perhaps they did not want to thrust those dozen-odd pages of the Fragment of the Purple Mansion Record into the eye of the storm.
If they had bid against him at the auction, they would inevitably have drawn the attention of certain factions.
Rather than let things develop that way, it would have been better to let Chen Yan win the fragment of the Purple Mansion Record, then snatch it back from him.
Of course, these were merely Chen Yan's guesses.
But right now, several Wanhua Realm cultivators were indeed pursuing him.
Only thanks to his advantages in cultivation methods and experience had Chen Yan barely managed to escape the Great Sun Immortal Kingdom and flee desperately toward Forgotten River City.
No matter what, he had to relay