Great Bamboo Peak.
Inside Shou Jing Hall.
Tian Buyi sat upright in a Grand Tutor Chair.
His already-small eyes were fixed on Ye Xuan, who stood below him in the hall.
The atmosphere was somewhat stifling.
Even oppressive.
Su Ru sat quietly beside him, holding a teacup.
She took a light sip, her gaze moving between her husband and their disciple.
"These past two years."
"Have you gained anything on Heaven-Piercing Peak...?"
After a long while.
Tian Buyi finally spoke.
His voice was low, tinged with a complicated emotion that was hard to put into words.
It was a question that came out of nowhere.
Anyone else hearing it would have been completely baffled.
But Ye Xuan understood.
He lifted his head slightly, his gaze clear as he looked directly at his master.
In this Zhu Xian World, everyone had secrets of their own.
Tian Buyi had his, Su Ru had hers, Cang Song had his, and Daoxuan had even more.
Ye Xuan's greatest secret was his identity as a transmigrator and his system.
Of course.
His encounter at the Ancestral Hall behind Heaven-Piercing Peak counted as one too.
Wan Jianyi.
A name Qingyun Sect had deliberately tried to forget, yet one the older generation of peak leaders remembered deeply.
At that moment.
Tian Buyi wasn't asking about anything else.
He was asking about Wan Jianyi's famous technique—Slay Ghosts and Gods!
"This disciple gained quite a bit."
Ye Xuan didn't dodge the question. His voice was calm and firm.
"Clack!"
Tian Buyi froze in place as if someone had cast a spell on him.
He had already suspected as much.
But hearing the answer with his own ears still made his heart clench painfully.
"You learned it?"
Tian Buyi's throat felt dry, and his voice grew even hoarser.
"I learned