Inside the secret chamber.
"By all rights, Shen Lie shouldn't have been so anxious to break through. And Yun Yao..."
In the end, Lin Chang'an shook his head and cast those thoughts from his mind.
None of that was his concern. Fortunately, he had little entanglement with Yun Yao; at most, they could be called fellow students.
"Green Bamboo Sword!"
With a lift of his hand, Lin Chang'an looked at the Green Bamboo Sword in his palm, newly reforged and advanced into a High-Grade Magical Tool, and could not help but smile.
"Let's test its sharpness first."
Against the hard stone wall of the cultivation chamber, the blade sank three inches deep with barely any force, making Lin Chang'an unable to put it down.
"Just as expected of something infused with Gold Essence."
A faint gilded sheen coiled around the edge of the blade. Such a tiny amount of Gold Essence had cost an outrageous sum, but its effect was astonishingly good as well.
"Yun Yao's affairs are too dangerous to meddle in. I'd better stay far away and keep cultivating and drawing talismans."
The fighting on the front lines was growing ever more intense, yet Lin Chang'an, already at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, no longer worried as much about the unrest in the rear.
After all, with his current cultivation and savings, he had nothing to fear unless he offended a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Yet just as Lin Chang'an devoted himself to cultivation, a piece of news suddenly surfaced in the Market from who knew where.
An Ancient Secret Realm was suspected to have been discovered in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
That day, when Lin Chang'an came to True Treasure Pavilion to purchase cultivation supplies, he was utterly stunned by the commotion in the Market.
"What?