"Hm?"
Qingyan True Person paused in surprise, but first set down the chess piece in his hand before pondering the matter carefully.
"Why do you ask?"
"It's nothing, really. It's just that while traveling in the Chu Kingdom, I met a very interesting person."
"He seemed to practice a Pupil Technique, but my knowledge is limited, and I didn't recognize it."
"Heh." Qingyan True Person chuckled.
"Pupil Techniques may be less common than ordinary cultivation methods, but this world is vast. If someone could collect and catalog them all, there would certainly be no small number."
"Never mind the two of us-even the venerable Venerable Xuanhui might not know them all."
Wang Ke nodded.
After thinking for a while, Qingyan True Person continued, "I don't know many Pupil Techniques myself, and I've never seen the one you described."
"But I have seen something similar."
He paused and looked at Wang Ke. "Have you heard that several hundred years ago, Jun Mountain produced a Sword Cultivator of extraordinary talent?"
Wang Ke nodded, but did not interrupt his master.
"His name was Chen Linyuan."
A glimmer stirred in Qingyan True Person's eyes, as though he were recalling something.
"He could be considered... a very close friend of mine."
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Wang Ke was somewhat surprised.
Although several hundred years had passed, legends of Chen Linyuan still circulated among successive generations of the Central Region's great sects.
Naturally, Wang Ke knew of them too.
To cultivators in the Border Region, three to five hundred years might seem a very long time, but to these cultivators in the Central Region...
It was merely the span of an "ordinary" Golden Core Realm cultivator's life, from birth to death in meditation.
He simply hadn't expected his own master to be close friends with this legendary prodigy.
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