"Young master, you're finally back!"
When the newcomer removed his covering and revealed his true face, Yan Sihai shuddered, so overcome with excitement that tears streamed down his face.
At last, the savior he had been waiting for had arrived.
Gu Chenfeng looked at him with a smile.
"Sect Master Yan, I hear the Four Directions Gate has been doing quite well. It's already one of the foremost sects in the Hidden Dragon Mountains."
At Gu Chenfeng's words, Yan Sihai seemed to clutch at a life-saving straw.
He hurriedly reported everything about the Four Directions Gate in full.
Ever since the Four Directions Gate began expanding and absorbing neighboring sects, a "gathering effect" had formed.
Many experts from the Hidden Dragon Mountains and rogue cultivators from elsewhere had joined the Four Directions Gate.
Even though some had seen that things were going badly in recent days and slipped away,
the Four Directions Gate's overall strength had still changed enormously.
Yet Gu Chenfeng secretly shook his head at the report Yan Sihai delivered with such pride.
Even though the Four Directions Gate had become a leading sect in the Hidden Dragon Mountains,
its strongest member, Yan Sihai, was only at Source Sea Realm Nine-Star.
The cultivation world near the Imperial Capital had been squeezed far too hard by the rich and powerful. Experts who reached the Source Core Realm had all been recruited by the great lineages.
No wonder the Huangfu Lineage could not even be bothered to settle accounts with the Four Directions Gate.
Still, he patted Yan Sihai on the shoulder in encouragement.
"You've done well. I came this time because an elder of mine will be staying at the Four Directions Gate for a few days.
You must attend to this elder of mine properly and do as