[Although your true body was astonished, your "Other Self" remained expressionless, so you did not appear particularly flustered.]
[You calmed down and asked:]
["You agreed to meet me so readily?"]
[After all, you had not even said what you wanted!]
[Unexpectedly, [Lord of the Immortal Palace · Chen Qingyan] explained calmly:]
["Your level is too low to pose a threat to me."]
[A faint note of disdain colored his voice, and at that moment, he revealed his aura.]
[—[Heavenly Venerable]([Nascent Soul Perfection, Limit-Breaking])]
[That did not surprise you.]
[After all, in the original course of history, Chen Qingyan should have possessed [Heavenly Venerable]-level combat power.]
[His title—[Heavenly Venerable Taiqing]—said it all!]
["I originally thought you were merely an ordinary spy." His gaze deepened, as though scrutinizing some anomaly.]
["But now... tell me what you experienced."]
[He seemed to know what you intended to say, his eyes holding a deeper meaning.]
[Although you were utterly astonished, you still told him about your experiences.]
[This was also the quickest way to obtain information. After all, these were old monsters who had lived for endless years.]
[If you fabricated a lie, there was no guarantee he would not see through it. Better to be frank.]
[Of course, you did not reveal your conjecture—that this was a “False World”!]
[You could not possibly say that!]
[There was no telling whether it would displease this [Lord of the Immortal Palace · Chen Qingyan].]
[You merely said that you had been sucked out of the secret realm in the [Myriad Beasts Mountain Range] and arrived here.]
[You also emphasized that you were merely a clone!]
[That would hopefully keep him from refining your “Other Self” to interrogate you or anything of the sort.]
[Yet after hearing this, [Lord of the Immortal Palace · Chen Qingyan] showed