The four Yang Clan members followed the mountain path all the way upward. Before long, as they entered the summit region, they encountered five monks clad in nine-strip robes.
One of them, a long-eared monk surrounded by golden light and possessed of fair skin, swept his gaze over the four of them before settling his eyes on Lin Qiao.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for clearing Ming Fang's path and opening his understanding. I thank you on his behalf."
This man was the ruthless figure who had fought the cultivators of Lingxiao Dao Academy and Meishan for nearly a month within the Gold Dao Secret Realm.
Unlike the four monks behind him, whose auras were concealed within, this man's sharp and imposing presence was overwhelming, with no intention of hiding it whatsoever.
Even with the naked eye, without needing to activate one's divine sense or Spiritual Sense, one could tell that this man's strength was surely terrifying.
"Ho, he truly is an extraordinary little Dharma cultivator monk. With strength like this, he is already no weaker than Gold Ranking prodigies like Xuan Youli."
Chen Yang swept his consciousness across the five young monks of Kudhan Temple and quickly understood their foundations.
Of these five, only one cultivated the physical body. The remaining four all cultivated Dharma power.
It seemed that Kudhan Temple's direction in training its disciples had also undergone considerable changes after the last war at Demon Suppression Pass.
The monks of Kudhan Temple had always placed primary emphasis on physical-body cultivation in the past.
Even the temple's current peak expert had attained the Dao through the physical body and knocked open the gate of the Dao.
Yet in the tragedy at the Blood Demon Blessed Land last time, the sect's two top Gold Ranking prodigies had both perished, and