Although he did not fully understand what Senior Sword Ancestor meant by those words, he grasped the general meaning.
So it was because of the First Speaker?
The First Speaker truly was formidable—he actually had such standing even with Senior Sword Ancestor.
"Moreover, in a sense, the reason he went through all those things also has something to do with me."
What did that mean?
Clearly, Senior Sword Ancestor had no intention of explaining. After his sigh, he looked at him.
"Come to think of it, you should know some of Yuan's deeds, correct?"
"This junior does know a little..."
"Tell me."
Huh?
Chen Shang froze.
"Just his personal matters. Anything that does not involve the Righteous Alliance's secrets is fine."
"That is not what this junior meant..."
Chen Shang paused, then began answering Xu Xing's question.
What kind of person was Yuan?
This had always been one of the most widely discussed questions over the years.
Chen Shang had his own views as well.
When he first heard the name "Yuan," he himself was only at Void Return, while the First Speaker's cultivation was even lower than his, having only just formed a Golden Core.
At the time, Chen Shang had not paid much attention to it.
After all, the name "Yuan" had only been mentioned because of Ning Wanzhu, the prodigy of Spirit Sound Workshop.
For a long time, the world's impression of Yuan had been that of "a lucky brat." They believed his rapid advancement in cultivation was merely because he had fortuitously won the favor of Spirit Sound Workshop's prodigy.
Even when he reached Void Return in less than three hundred years, he was still viewed with hostility by the great sects and even the prodigious disciples of the Immortal Sects.
After all, both Ning Wanzhu