After hearing Chongxuan Sheng out, Jiang Wang rose without a word and headed for the door.
"What are you doing?" Chongxuan Sheng asked, taken aback.
Without looking back, Jiang Wang replied, "Obviously, I'm going to find my worthy elder brother Yan Fu!"
Chongxuan Sheng gritted his teeth. "With that face of yours, you've got seventy percent of Xu Gao'e's style!"
"Don't throw stones from a glass house." Jiang Wang waved over his shoulder. "Don't waste my time!"
Just before Jiang Wang reached the door, Chongxuan Sheng called out again. "Jiang Wang!"
"What is it?" Jiang Wang stopped and turned around.
Chongxuan Sheng hesitated, then said, "Don't get your hopes up too high. If I get it, I'm fortunate; if I don't, it's fate."
There wasn't a trace of teasing in his voice now.
Jiang Wang grew serious too. "Why do you say that?"
"When I said we'd each rely on our own abilities, that was on the condition that nobody could sweep all before them and stand head and shoulders above everyone else."
Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow. "Who could?"
He wasn't being arrogant. Within Qi State, he really hadn't found an Inner Palace cultivator who could earn his wholehearted respect and make him concede defeat. Of course, someone like Tian Anping, who had fallen from Divine Presence to the Inner Palace, didn't count.
But seeing Chongxuan Sheng's expression, he realized what he meant. "Him? There isn't enough time, is there?"
Even Zuo Guangshu knew that Chongxuan Zun wouldn't have time to take part in the Yellow River Assembly. That showed just how many people in All-Under-Heaven regarded Chongxuan Zun as their imagined rival.
And Chongxuan Zun had been in seclusion at Jixia Academy for over half a year, with no word from him.
He had been absent for a