After Chen Yan's fall, she herself would become the master of Du Cang Mountain, the Steward of Chenping Continent.

Qin Qingyu's mind flashed with what "Fan Mowen" had just said to her, and her thoughts were in complete disarray.

In truth, Qin Qingyu had never harbored any ambition to govern Chenping Continent.

Or rather, even at this very moment, many trivial matters were nothing but burdens to her.

Qin Qingyu's heart was devoted solely to the Dao.

She knew very well that her current talent was far from reaching its limit. Even the Immortal Ascension Realm would never be her final destination.

She was destined to become the next cultivator to touch the Realms Above Immortality, following in the footsteps of Immortal Venerable Fusheng and the Falling Star Sword Immortal...

No, there was also Chen Yan, True Person Chen.

After Chen Yan's fall...

"Do not speak such nonsense."

Qin Qingyu's tone hardened slightly.

"Whether it is nonsense or not, Elder Qin should already have her own judgment in her heart, should she not?"

Fan Mowen replied:

"Just as I said earlier, when that future day arrives, True Person Qin will naturally come to find me. And as for now, it is far from the time for this Fan to cross paths with Chen Yan."

"Matters of the future will naturally become clear when the future arrives."

Qin Qingyu said.

"Then this Fan will eagerly await the arrival of that 'future' day."

As he spoke, Fan Mowen, standing at the door, once again bowed respectfully in Qin Qingyu's direction and took two steps back:

"If Elder Qin has already made her decision, then this Fan will take his leave for now."

Qin Qingyu did not stop him, nor did she speak again. She simply watched quietly as Fan Mowen slowly withdrew and closed the door behind him.

Her spiritual sense followed Fan Mowen's figure as he slowly departed the courtyard, then flew through the air, heading toward Chenhui Gate.

Fan Mowen.

Qin Qingyu committed this name to her heart.

She would have to dig up every single past experience of this man, down to the very bottom.

Even if the "Fan Mowen" she had seen today was not the former Offering Elder of Chenhui Gate from Star Heaven Sect.

......

Du Cang Hall.

Chen Yan still sat alone in the vast, empty hall, his eyes lightly closed.

All he could do at present was wait.

Everything on the surface of Chenping Continent was completely within his control.

As for whether there was anything that had slipped beyond his grasp... Chen Yan himself was not certain.

But what he did know was that if something could still escape his control at this stage, it meant that even if he knew of it, he would not have the power to bring it back under his command.

Because that would undoubtedly be an existence above Immortal Ascension.

However, waiting was extremely tedious.

Thirty-four years had already passed since Chen Yan had returned to this era from eight thousand years ago and suppressed the Great Chaos of the Immortals.

During these thirty-four years, the only thing Chen Yan could do was observe.

By now, a small number of Mirage Palace cultivators had already begun to appear on Du Cang Mountain.

With the help of Mr. You, the Mirage Palace of Realman Sun-Eroding Liang Huan had already undergone earth-shaking changes compared to thirty-four years ago.

All "Six Towers" of the Mirage Palace had completed their reconstruction, and during these thirty-four years, they had recruited nearly ten thousand inner disciples and tens of thousands of outer court disciples.

Now the Mirage Palace also had dozens of Qi Sea Realm cultivators and over four hundred Martial Spring Realm cultivators.

In another ten years, the Mirage Palace would once again have Passable God Realm cultivators.

Back then, North Pass Sect had grown to a considerable scale within just a few years because Chen Yan had accepted virtually anyone who came, absorbing a large number of rogue cultivators.

But the Mirage Palace was different. The Mirage Palace was cultivated almost entirely from scratch.

Judging by the current pace, although the speed of the Mirage Palace's reconstruction had far exceeded what was originally imagined, restoring the scale and heritage befitting one of the Five Great Sects would likely be impossible without several thousand years.

Realman Sun-Eroding Liang Huan had not suffered severe dao resonance erosion or Dao Basis damage during the Great Chaos of the Immortals, so he could afford to wait.

But...

Could Chenping Continent truly afford to wait right now?

When Heavenly Summit Mountain was destroyed by the "Mystic Maiden" back then, the pitch-black rift that appeared in the sky had stretched for tens of thousands of li. Now, that pitch-black rift had already expanded to nearly a thousand li, and its rate of expansion was growing faster and faster.

According to the predictions of Chen Yan and Mr. You, at the very most, it would only take two hundred years for the pitch-black rift in the sky to expand to the scale it had reached when Heavenly Summit Mountain was destroyed over sixty thousand years ago.

As for countermeasures...

There were none.

All Chen Yan could do was take one step at a time and see where it led.

No matter how hard he tried, with his current cultivation at the mid-stage of the Immortal Ascension Realm, he was utterly incapable of contending with that Mystic Maiden Statue roaming within the spatial rifts.

All he could do was place his hopes on how far Qin Qingyu could go within these two hundred years.

Just then, footsteps echoed from beyond the doors of Du Cang Hall. A long shadow stretched into the hall first, and then a figure clad in moon-white daoist robes stepped inside.

The Eighth-Generation Ascended Steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain, Realman Lingxuan, Gu Jing.

Chen Yan slowly opened his eyes and gazed at this former Ascended Steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain.

Gu Jing then bowed slightly toward Chen Yan and spoke:

"True Person Chen, Qin Qingyu of Star Heaven Sect requests an audience."

Qin Qingyu?

Chen Yan knew that yesterday, after Qin Qingyu broke through to the Dao Union Realm, she had immediately returned to Star Heaven Sect.

He had originally assumed that Qin Qingyu would rest at Star Heaven Sect for about half a month. He never expected her to return to Du Cang Mountain so soon.

Moreover, it seemed she had come straight for him...

Could something have happened?

"Let her in."

Chen Yan said.

"Yes."

Gu Jing replied, then turned and left through the hall doors.

About a dozen breaths later, that figure in Star Heaven Sect's crimson-purple daoist robes, with a graceful and elegant bearing, the current number one cultivator at the Below Immortality Realm on Chenping Continent, slowly stepped into Du Cang Hall.

"True Person Chen."

Qin Qingyu bowed toward Chen Yan, who sat on the white jade throne at the end of the hall.

"Congratulations to Elder Qin on breaking through to the Dao Union Realm. Ascending to Immortality is within reach."

Chen Yan said slowly:

"But returning from Star Heaven Sect so early, could it be that something urgent has come up?"

"When Qingyu returned to Star Heaven Sect this time, she encountered an Offering Elder of Chenhui Gate who had been traveling abroad for over three hundred years. He provided a piece of highly important intelligence, but Qingyu is unable to determine whether it is true or false, and thus wished to return to seek True Person Chen's guidance."

Qin Qingyu said.

"What intelligence?"

Chen Yan said.

"Within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range at the border between the Western and Northwestern Regions of Chenping Continent, there lies buried a Sage's Cause and Effect..."

Qin Qingyu answered, then suddenly paused.

Because there was another piece of so-called "history" that was already destined, one that she simply could not bring herself to speak.

That was, Chen Yan's fall.

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