Ji Yuan treated Zhu Yan's words with utter disdain.
"There are infinite mysteries between Heaven and Earth. Even if people exhausted their entire lives, they could never glimpse every secret. It is not strange at all that Heaven and Earth hold great secrets. But if you happened to know some extraordinarily important secret, why should you share it with me, Ji Yuan? Because you and I fought to the death some days ago? What a joke!"
Zhu Yan grinned.
"Only the strong are qualified to know the Secrets of Heaven and Earth. If Mister Ji had been directly killed by me some days ago, then naturally you would not have been qualified. But Mister Ji's magical power is indeed unfathomable, so you are qualified to know."
Ji Yuan nodded, set the brush in his hand onto the brush rest on the table, crossed past the desk, and walked to the doorway to look at Zhu Yan.
"Then your fixation on Great Hero Zuo could not possibly be some great secret of Heaven and Earth as well, could it?"
"It cannot quite be called one, but it is related. This Martial Sage Lord possesses the talent to create a Dao and immense fortune. Yet Human Power is Limited; relying on himself, he cannot make rapid leaps forward. As one who likewise tempers the body, I, Zhu Yan, greatly cherish talent. Of course, there is also one thing that only the Martial Sage Lord can help with. It is merely that his abilities are still insufficient, and in my anxiety, I very much wish to help him!"
Almost everything Zhu Yan said was true. Though he had told no lies, withholding part of the truth was even more formidable than fabricating falsehoods outright. It could even evade the senses of certain immortals.