As for how Zhou Cheng should have been dealt with, Ye Chen thought back on it. Given your temperament, you probably would not have spared his life, so he had burned Zhou Cheng to death right before Jin Wuya. Such a trivial matter truly had no need to wait until you emerged from secluded cultivation to handle.
Ye Chen had also learned these flames with your help—the three divine flames, all from the same lineage. And how powerful was Jin Wuya's perception? From this one move alone, he could tell just how solid Ye Chen's foundation was. It was actually two parts stronger than Jin Jue Ming's had been back then. One had to know that Jin Jue Ming was a Pureblood True Dragon with hopes of becoming a five-clawed Golden Dragon! Not even the Cold Abyss Imperial Vein should have been able to compare.
After turning around, Ye Chen thanked Jin Wuya with great enthusiasm. He even said that once you emerged from secluded cultivation, he wished to invite Jin Wuya to Snow City as a guest.
Yet Ye Chen's manner instead put Jin Wuya more at ease. He could see that Ye Chen was deliberately imitating you, but people were different. Even between father and son, Ye Chen could only learn your form, not your essence. A genius without convictions of his own was still threatening, but far less daunting than the latter...
When Ye Chen left Jin Wuya's side and was about to return to Snow City to await your emergence from secluded cultivation, he saw Jin Peirou as soon as he stepped outside. Jin Peirou's bearing remained as graceful as ever, no different from the last time she had met Ye Chen. Yet the ever-forthright woman now carried an irrepressible sense of guilt.
Although she had