"Oh, he fought Zi Kun? Did Zi Kun win?"
Qianji finally understood why Li Yan had suddenly followed a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, and pressed him for an answer.
"He won!"
Even as Li Yan answered, he was thinking about what he had just overheard. The invisible barrier Xiang He had set up to cut off the inside from the outside had been useless against him.
Li Yan had no interest these days in eavesdropping on cultivators of such low rank. But as he had said, the moment he saw Xiang He's face, the coincidence had struck him.
The first Purple God Dragon-Elephant Clan cultivator he had encountered this time was someone he knew. Seeing Xiang He hiding away, Li Yan had grown curious about what he was doing.
Could the "outsider" they mentioned be Zi Kun? Had I happened upon someone plotting against him?
Li Yan's thoughts raced. Perhaps he was reading too much into it, yet he could not shake the feeling that he was right.
Who else in the Purple God Dragon-Elephant Clan would Xiang He call an "outsider"? Zi Kun had not been born there; he came from a distant branch outside the clan.
Zi Kun also possessed the innate Purple Dragon Fire and had used poison cultivator methods. He and Xiang He already bore a grudge against each other. Taken together, those clues made it entirely possible that Xiang He had meant Zi Kun.
"From what those two said, it sounds as though the Purple God Dragon-Elephant Clan is about to hold some kind of contest. That magical treasure Xiang He produced is meant to let someone on the same team launch a sneak attack..."
Li Yan's thoughts raced, and he quickly told Qianji, "We're going to find Zi Kun now!"
Once they found Zi