Baisha County.
On the city wall.
The gale scattered the floating dust.
A middle-aged man in a blue robe descended before Jiang Ning and the others.
His temples were slightly gray, and faint wrinkles lined his forehead. Clearly, he was no longer young.
Shen Wenyuan swept his gaze over them before it settled on Zhao Yulong.
"Brother Zhao, there is no need for such formalities!"
Then he looked at Jiang Ning and the others. "The same goes for you all. No need for formalities!"
"Brother Zhao, tell me what happened!" Shen Wenyuan spoke again.
"Yes!" Zhao Yulong promptly answered.
He then began recounting the whole sequence of events.
At that moment.
Jiang Ning looked at Shen Wenyuan, and a flicker of surprise rose in his eyes.
Seeing this approachable Grandmaster Shen Wenyuan, he saw the shadow of someone else in him.
The shadow of Shen Congyun.
Their temperaments were somewhat alike, both carrying the air of poetry and scholarship. Even their appearances bore a thirty-percent resemblance.
Shen Wenyuan. Shen Congyun. The Xichuan Shen Family.
Thoughts flashed rapidly through Jiang Ning's mind.
At that instant, a possibility came to him.
Could Shen Congyun be a member of the Xichuan Shen Family?
And Shen Wenyuan was Shen Congyun's elder?
The more he considered it, the more he felt his guess might be the truth.
Because Shen Congyun's strength back then did not seem particularly impressive to Jiang Ning now.
Yet the things Shen Congyun had left him were far from simple.
The Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, though only an incomplete manual that could reach major mastery.
Was not something easily acquired, especially when combined with the initial cultivation method for the Indestructible Vajra Body.
Given the value of those two cultivation techniques, they were not things an ordinary person could obtain.
And