Looking at the sickly Gai Jiuyou, Chu Yang merely smiled. "This junior heard some things about you from Granny and came to admire you greatly. Consider this Soldier Secret a small token of my respect."
Gai Jiuyou did not believe a single word. If someone who knew his identity had said such things, that would have been one thing, but who was this fellow before him?
The renowned Young Emperor Chu!
Though Gai Jiuyou had never met Chu Yang, he had heard far too many rumors about him and had seen his portrait as well.
As one of the people in this era closest to the Great Emperor realm, he understood very clearly what that so-called Power of Past Life signified.
There were only two possibilities. Either Chu Yang's past life had been extraordinarily remarkable, so outstanding that even among the Great Emperors throughout history, he would have stood above the rest. He might even have once fought upon the Immortal Path.
Otherwise, how could he have created such a reincarnation method, one that preserved memories of a past life and even allowed one to borrow its power?
The other possibility was that this fellow was not a Great Emperor Reincarnation at all, but a genuine Great Emperor who had lived until the present through some method and suppressed his cultivation in order to deceive the heavens.
Either possibility was enough for Gai Jiuyou to treat Chu Yang as an equal.
Would someone like that turn around and claim to admire him?
After pondering for a moment, though, Gai Jiuyou did not pursue the matter further.
"Bandit, you're saying... these stone carvings contain the mysteries of the Soldier Secret?" Ye Fan pointed at the rock wall, his brows slightly furrowed.
Since Yue Ling was now at Qishi Mansion and had