"Shi Qi, while you were in the underground snake nest, a man in black calling himself 'Yan'e' appeared. Why did none of you three mention a single word of this earlier?" Su Dian demanded grimly.
Shi Qi bowed, his face bitter.
"Senior Su Dian, we did not deliberately conceal it. It was just that... that man escaped before we did, and we had no idea where he went. Although he called himself 'Yan'e,' his face and aura were completely concealed. There was no way to identify him. Someone might well have been deliberately posing as 'Yan'e.'"
Su Dian did not press Shi Qi further. Instead, he turned to Guang Xing.
"Tell me everything you know concerning 'Yan'e,' and leave nothing out."
Su Dian knew that most of the Gai Family cultivators who had entered the secret realm had died at 'Yan'e's' hands, with Guang Xing alone escaping alive. But Guang Xing had only told Gai Lu privately how they had died; no one else knew the details.
"Yes!" Guang Xing then gave a detailed account of what had happened in the secret realm's Dusk Ravine Abyss.
When he heard that 'Yan'e's' true cultivation was at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and that he had used a secret spiritual sense technique capable of forming Nine Transparent Blades, Su Dian's expression hardened, his pupils abruptly contracting.
Seeing Su Dian's reaction, Jing Xun grew puzzled and asked,
"Su Dian, what is it? Do you know this man?"
Su Dian nodded.
"About four years ago, Yin Ling and I received orders saying that unusual phenomena had appeared at the Ascension Platform, and that we were to go receive the ascended cultivator. We set out immediately, taking a Teleportation Array to the Ascension Platform. Sure enough, a cultivator had ascended from a lower