The Nanmen Lineage moved remarkably fast.
The very next day, they sent a clan elder to find Chen Lin and discuss the Dual Cultivation Ceremony.
Chen Lin could not help wondering whether the Nanmen Lineage had run into some trouble and urgently needed Hongming Ancestor's name to resolve it.
Or perhaps they had discovered his identity as the "key" and were eager to stake their claim on him first.
Otherwise, this was far too rushed.
But Chen Lin did not particularly care.
If he really was the only key capable of opening the Cage World, that would actually be a good thing. No one would be safer than him. The powerful cultivators who wanted to leave the Inner World and seek true immortality would all have to protect him with their lives.
Still, he felt that this claim about a key remained open to question.
There was no way to verify the truth of something recorded in a notebook, so there was no need to read too much into it.
There was, however, one thing Chen Lin did care about.
He could not hold the Dual Cultivation Ceremony at the Nanmen Lineage's estate and make it look as though he was marrying into their family.
So, in his capacity as Sect Master of the Kaiyuan Sect, he purchased the headquarters of a sect that could no longer sustain itself in Sanding City's Outer City. He established a branch of the Kaiyuan Sect there and, after a little tidying up, used it as the venue for the ceremony.
Although time was tight, the Dual Cultivation Ceremony still caused quite a stir.
The Nanmen Lineage ranked just below the Three Great Factions and had once been one of the dominant powers on the Soul-Severing Continent. Countless people wanted to attach themselves to