Different Destinies, Different Variables

Before Xin Ren could say anything.

The young Xin Ren suddenly sneered. "Everything you said is a lie. Don't you know how sects treat geniuses? Why would I need to steal spirit medicines?"

"And do you take the senior stewards of the Spirit Medicine Garden for fools?"

With his cultivation, how could he steal beneath the stewards' very noses?

"You said... what?"

Xin Ren had been about to sneer as well, to mock his younger self for being ignorant and naive.

Having only just entered the world of cultivation, he probably did not yet know how dark cultivation could be.

Nor how filthy and ruthless the sect he had entered was. Beneath its passable outer skin, the sect's ways had never had anything to do with kindness.

But upon hearing those words, his expression abruptly changed.

The young Xin Ren still possessed a kind and benevolent nature.

"I don't know who you are, but since you entered this place, I cannot shield you."

Within the storage space, a Dao Academy disciple's Jade Token floated gently.

A stream of divine message-light passed through it.

In the blink of an eye, stars shifted and the world turned.

Xin Ren's expression changed sharply, as though he had fallen into an ice cellar.

This Divine Ability had been utterly natural, yet his Divine Consciousness had not detected the slightest trace of it.

Compared to that, he did not even know what to say for the moment.

"Elder, this disciple has an important matter of cultivation to report..."

Xin Ren's gaze was incomparably complicated. He had never expected himself to be exposed.

What he found even more unbelievable was that his younger self could be so foolish and innocent, so carelessly exposing him.

Before he could see how matters would develop afterward,

gaze after gaze