Shangguan Tianque had repeatedly instructed Banjiang to take Elder Li's requests seriously and treat him with respect.
As the great battle between Pure Yang Hall and Heart-Refining Valley unfolded, all sorts of rumors had long spread outside regarding that struggle over the "Great Fruitlessness."
Word had leaked from Heart-Refining Valley that only Chongyangzi and one or two Nascent Soul cultivators had survived, while everyone else had perished.
Later on, quite a few sects never expressly acknowledged it, but some of their Nascent Soul cultivators indeed never appeared again.
Gradually, the number of survivors had more or less been confirmed. Yet like the Heavenbreaker Sect, outsiders might not know exactly whom they had sent to participate.
When Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu received this news, they had not quite believed it. But combining it with all the other information, and recalling how Li Fang had once been unwilling to say much—
They guessed that, taken together, these reports were eight or nine parts out of ten very close to the truth. This made both of their hearts pound with terror.
For Li Yan to have survived, he absolutely possessed extraordinary strength.
Recalling Li Yan's two previous attacks, where Nascent Soul cultivators had almost never been able to withstand even a single exchange with him, Shangguan Tianque no longer believed Li Yan had relied solely on sneak attacks and luck.
After the senior brother and junior sister discussed it, they even felt that Li Yan might be a Spirit Transformation cultivator, though they had always been unwilling to admit it.
Now that Banjiang had already formed his Nascent Soul and begun to hold up a patch of heaven and earth, certain matters and conjectures that could not previously be spoken of would gradually be made known to him.
When Banjiang had first