Hearing the question, Tan Yaozheng said:
"Oh, so you were the one who planted that spark. Yes, I am the Great Heng Founder, but I don't know you. Did you attain the Dao after my time, or are you a Golden Immortal even older than I am?"
"Take a guess."
The young man in the Confucian Robe smiled.
During the era when the Great Heng Founder had been active, the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm had been in Middle Antiquity, and the title Great Luo from the Primordial Era had evolved into Golden Immortal.
Compared with the titles Great Luo and True Lord, the Great Heng Founder was more familiar with Golden Immortal.
Tan Yaozheng shook her head. "I don't like guessing games. If you won't tell me, forget it. I've answered your question. Now it's your turn to tell me who this Zhang Yuan is."
The young man in the Confucian Robe kept his promise. "Zhang Yuan is an Otherworlder who fell into the Dust-Dyed Realm. He became a Celestial Person's disciple and later attained the Celestial Person realm himself, taking [Return to True] as his Dao Epithet. Even in this age of rising prodigies, his natural talent is quite good. His strength is respectable, and few in the same realm can match him."
"Only one Celestial Person Master? So he has no backing at all." Tan Yaozheng raised an eyebrow in surprise.
She had assumed that, given Zhang Yuan's strength and cultivation realm, he would be a member of the Dust-Dyed Realm's Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans. She had never expected him to have no backing whatsoever.
Moreover, she sensed that the [Eastern Sunken Pavilion] shopkeeper before her was not lying. Everything he had said was true.
"Fine, I understand. Also, I don't care who you are. Don't