Novel Full Chapter 75: Liu Yantang
Chapter Seventy-Five: Liu Yantang
Yun Yichen coldly looked at Lin Qifeng, who was hugging his calf. This handsome young man first remained silent for a while, then finally spoke:
“Do you know your mistake?”
“Your disciple knows his mistake!”
Lin Qifeng wailed as he spoke:
“While your disciple was at the Rear Cliff, I was constantly engaging in very profound self-reflection. However, the reason your disciple acted this way also has a cause…”
“Speak.”
Yun Yichen asked.
“Master, venerable one, you heartlessly sent your disciple to the outer court over five years ago. If your disciple hadn’t resorted to this last resort, getting himself confined by Master to the Rear Cliff of Kongyuan Mountain, who knows in what year or month I would have been able to see Master, venerable one, again…”
“Get lost. Don’t make me say it a second time.”
Yun Yichen said flatly.
“Your disciple obeys the command.”
Lin Qifeng stood up, got to his feet very straightforwardly, came to the side, and stood obediently next to his eldest senior brother, Zhong Yin.
Chen Yan finally understood why Yun Yichen had sent Lin Qifeng to the outer court.
After the farce ended, Yun Yichen lightly coughed twice, then shifted his gaze to Chen Yan, who was still standing with Yue Chi at the entrance of the great hall.
Chen Yan hurriedly took two steps forward, bowed and cupped his hands towards Yun Yichen’s direction, assuming a posture of utmost respect, and said clearly:
“Disciple Chen Yan, pays his respects to the Sect Leader!”
Yun Yichen stared at Chen Yan for a while.
His gaze was not imposing and sharp like that of a Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator, but revealed the unique simplicity and unperturbed calm characteristic of a Unity Realm cultivator.
Then Yun Yichen turned his head to look at Liu Yantang beside him:
“Yantang, this child is your junior. What are your impressions?”
“This child is the current Chief Disciple of Kongshan Sect?”
Liu Yantang beside him stared at Chen Yan, blinking her eyes.
Liu Yantang stepped down from her position as Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain when she was nineteen years old. Taking on the identity of the Dao Sect Wanderer of Kongshan Sect, she traveled the world visiting various sects. Fifteen years have passed since then.
This year, Liu Yantang is already thirty-four, but her appearance looks to be only about seventeen or eighteen years old. Compared even to the aloof Chu Xiyao or the delicate Qin Yue, Liu Yantang instead possesses a few more touches of the liveliness belonging to a young maiden.
For immortal cultivators, especially those with high cultivation levels, age fundamentally holds no meaning whatsoever.
“What was your name again?”
Liu Yantang asked.
“Replying to Martial Aunt Liu, this disciple is named Chen Yan.”
Chen Yan replied.
Liu Yantang walked towards Chen Yan’s direction, placed her hands behind her back, and curiously circled around Chen Yan, examining him twice.
“What is your current cultivation level?”
Liu Yantang asked.
According to what Martial Uncle Yue Chi said earlier, Liu Yantang’s current cultivation realm should be at the late stage or peak of the Qi Sea Realm. In short, she’s still just one step away from the Passable God Realm.
Therefore, Liu Yantang could not perceive Chen Yan’s cultivation level.
“Late stage of the Qi Circulation Realm.”
“Oh?”
Liu Yantang was clearly very puzzled by Chen Yan’s answer.
Unless one displayed extremely exaggerated immortal cultivation talent right from the initial entry stage and was established as the Chief Disciple at a very young age.
Under normal circumstances, wanting to become the Chief Disciple of a certain peak required Martial Spring Realm cultivation as an absolute, hard condition.
Yet Chen Yan’s cultivation was only at the late stage of the Qi Circulation Realm.
Liu Yantang turned her head, looking at Yue Chi beside her with a confused expression, seemingly wanting Yue Chi to answer this puzzle for her.
Yue Chi also understood the meaning in Liu Yantang’s gaze.
“Martial Sister Liu, although Chen Yan has only been a disciple of our Kongyuan Mountain for just over a year, the achievements he has made in this just-over-a-year period can be said to surpass all the disciples of this generation of Kongyuan Mountain.”
Liu Yantang turned her head, looking at Yue Chi beside her with a confused expression, seemingly wanting Yue Chi to answer this puzzle for her.
“What achievements? Could it be that Fifth Senior Brother was sent by him to the Rear Cliff for reflection and repentance?”
At this point, Liu Yantang revealed an amused expression as if she had just told some incredibly funny joke, then looked around at everyone in the hall:
“Hahaha, I’m joking… Wait a moment, why aren’t you all laughing? Isn’t it funny?”
Chen Yan: “…”
Yue Chi: “…”
Everyone: “…”
A wave of silence fell within Kongyuan Hall.
Having just ended her worldly travels and returned to Kongshan Sect, Liu Yantang did not know why Lin Qifeng had been confined to the Rear Cliff.
However, she wasn’t the least bit surprised. For her “eccentric genius” senior brother, doing anything that would make people’s jaws drop was not excessive.
Only Second Senior Brother could really get along with Fifth Senior Brother. Ever since the day Liu Yantang was accepted by Yun Yichen as his closed-door disciple, she had noticed that the relationship between Second Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother was unusually good.
But, why is everyone so silent?
Suddenly, as if realizing something, she cast an extremely shocked look at Chen Yan:
“No way, Fifth Senior Brother was really sent by you to…”
“Ahem, matters that have already passed should not be mentioned again, Martial Sister Liu.”
Lin Qifeng beside her coughed twice somewhat awkwardly.
The matter of colluding with his own disciple to cheat in the outer court competition and then being confined to the Rear Cliff—regardless of whether the underlying reason was true or false—was not something pleasant to talk about.
“The reason Chen Yan became the Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain has nothing to do with that.”
Yue Chi said:
“He carried out extensive revisions and improvements to the Kongshan Art.”
“Extensively revised and improved the Kongshan Art?”
Liu Yantang’s astonishment at this was in no way less than her shock at Lin Qifeng being sent to the Rear Cliff by Chen Yan for reflection.
Because although Liu Yantang’s own cultivation had now reached the peak of the Qi Sea Realm, and she estimated it would take no more than two years at most to break through to the Passable God Realm.
She still could not claim to have completely mastered the Kongshan Art.
The Kongshan Art, that is, the first-stage mental cultivation method of the Kongshan Record—Liu Yantang believed she had only barely reached a minor mastery level.
However, minor mastery of the Kongshan Art was already sufficient for her to break through from the Martial Spring Realm to the Qi Sea Realm.
Immortal cultivation mental methods also have high and low grades. The Kongshan Art, improved by True Person Kongmiao, Yan Yunhe, absolutely ranks within the top three among the Lower Three Realms mental methods in this world of the Chenping Continent.
Those secret manuals or fragmented texts treasured by third-rate sects on the Chenping Continent probably don’t even reach one-tenth of the cultivation efficiency of the Kongshan Art.
The gap between those fragmented texts of third-rate sects and the Kongshan Art is the same as the gap between the Kongshan Art and the Purple Mansion Record.
Chen Yan had considered that if he were to “independently create” a Purple Mansion Record, it would probably be far too shocking and unbelievable.
This unprecedented, peerless-level immortal cultivation mental method, once appearing out of nowhere, would inevitably plunge the entire Chenping Continent into chaos.
Even though the Purple Mansion Record is only a C- grade Reincarnation Reward.
Therefore, Chen Yan only extracted certain fragments from the Purple Mansion Record to use for improving the Kongshan Art. The results he achieved were still better than he himself had imagined.
A mere Qi Circulation Realm cultivator, actually able to improve the Kongshan Art?
And even became the Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain because of the merit achieved from improving the Kongshan Art?
Although in the past fifteen years, Liu Yantang had visited as a guest all four of the other major sects of the Chenping Continent’s Five Great Sects, apart from Kongshan Sect.
But someone like Chen Yan, she truly had never heard of before.
Liu Yantang was very interested in this person, Chen Yan.