Inside the cavern, Ren Ye clearly sensed the Cultivator's aura approaching, but he gave no sign that he had noticed. He simply stayed inside the Phoenix Fire Furnace, patiently waiting for the other party's next move.
Although the other party did his utmost to conceal his aura, Ren Ye still clearly detected the faint fluctuations when his divine sense probed the cavern. He immediately frowned and murmured inwardly, A Fourth Grade Cultivator, with the aura of an Order inheritance...!
After further determining the other party's basic identity, his expression instantly darkened.
In the dense forest, the Order Cultivator silently watched the cavern entrance with the expression of a predator waiting to steal another predator's prey.
This Cultivator was named Yang Youtian. Nineteen years old, he came from a vast continent of an extremely high standing. That continent had the Three Upper Dao Sects, known as the ancient dynasty's state religions, and he was the disciple of the Dao Chief of the Central Heaven Sect, foremost among the three.
The Central Heaven Sect's name meant the sun hanging at the zenith, the pinnacle of the Daoist schools. This sect established its Dao through slaughter and enjoyed unprecedented prosperity in the current era, with profoundly deep foundations. However, had the Central Heaven Sect's Dao Chief had his way, Yang Youtian would not have been on the final list of disciples traveling to the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm.
This was not because Yang Youtian lacked the talent to qualify. On the contrary, his talent was too great, and the sect's Dao Chief doted on him too much. That was why he had been left off the initial list of traveling disciples.
Why?
Yang Youtian had only entered the Fourth Grade six months earlier and was currently only at the Fourth Grade,