At the mention of Chen Lin, Gu Qingxue's eyes instantly lit up. Her appetite for gossip flared.
"Master, you've met him?" Gu Qingxue leaned closer and lowered her voice. "That Chen Lin is pretty handsome, and his cultivation is high too. But... he's a total womanizer!"
Yun Sheng froze. The enormous bed she had scanned with her divine sense flashed through her mind again, and her cheeks grew almost imperceptibly warm.
"He has four Dao companions!" Gu Qingxue held up four fingers, her tone exaggerated. "And every one of them looks like a celestial beauty! He spends every day fooling around with those four female cultivators. He's utterly debauched!"
"Who asked you about that?" Yun Sheng shot her a fierce glare.
Gu Changfeng rose and walked over to Yun Sheng, his expression more solemn than ever.
"Master, this man is unfathomable," Gu Changfeng said gravely.
"Although his cultivation appears to be only at early foundation establishment, I've never seen anyone with such condensed true qi or such terrifying combat strength. I dare say his actual strength has already reached late foundation establishment. He might even be able to challenge someone at early core formation."
Yun Sheng nodded. She had already recognized the depth of Chen Lin's foundations.
"But that isn't even the most frightening part."
Gu Changfeng swallowed, a flicker of fear crossing his eyes.
"Master, I asked around the village today. I discovered something truly terrifying."
"What?" Yun Sheng frowned.
"The changes in Chen Family Village, that enormous Spirit-Gathering Formation, that sprawling Song-Style Courtyard House... all of it happened within the last six months."
Gu Changfeng spoke each word deliberately, staring straight into Yun Sheng's eyes.
"And six months ago, Chen Lin was just an ordinary man working in Magic City. He had no cultivation, no backing. He was