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At that moment, Ye Suzhen was watching this scene in some astonishment because he didn't recognize the young man before him at all. Logically, considering his status, anyone in Mount Disciple who could be called a martial uncle by the younger generation should have been met by him at least once.

After all, there were many who sought favors from his father and his grandfather.

If it is said that the offspring of officials from the Zi Xuan dynasty never knew what it was like to be short of money from birth, then Ye Suzhen likewise never knew what it was like to bow his head since birth.

No matter how high their status was, everyone had to speak to him with courtesy when they met him.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Of course, the leader Qian was the only exception; after all, his grandfather had once told him that the other party might be an incarnation of some patriarch.

Though it was just an incarnation, it was as good as the personal presence of a patriarch.

At this moment, the two youths took the initiative to introduce Ye Suzhen: "Brother Ye, the martial uncle is carrying the Silent Spirit Sword!"

Upon hearing the name of the sword, Ye Suzhen suddenly understood.

This must be Elder Kumu's most recently accepted disciple, so Ye Suzhen simply clasped his fists: "Junior Ye Suzhen, I have seen the martial uncle, my great-grandfather is Elder Ye, although due to Elder Kumu going into closed cultivation, it's been many years since they met, the two were very good friends back then."

As soon as Ye Suzhen spoke, the rest of the disciples of Mount Disciple also hurriedly paid their respects.

However, there was one exception among these people.

The young girl Hong Yan, dressed in red, was looking at the young man with uncontrollable terror in her eyes. Initially, she didn't know who the young man holding the flying Silent Spirit Sword was and truly thought he was one of their sect's martial uncles, but after she returned to the mountain and prepared to make a complaint, she learned that Elder Kumu had disappeared some time ago.

It was then, by a fortunate coincidence, that Hong Yan saw the first volume of "Tan Shuchang's Cultivation Diary."

Although the portrait on it only resembled him sixty or seventy percent, Hong Yan recognized at first glance that the young man she took for a martial uncle was indeed Tan Shuchang!

And this young man was, in fact, Tan Shuchang.

He wanted to cultivate a Yin God in the Snake Desire Realm; normally, it would take a lot of time. He couldn't wait, so he prepared to borrow the ghost-cultivating method from demonic practices.

The method of refining ghosts, although it transforms fierce ghosts into a cultivator's divine skills, also consistently strengthens the ghost.

The technique of the fierce ghost shedding its skin and returning to life also originated from this method.

The ghost-cultivating method Tan Shuchang wanted to borrow was hidden in this county town. Upon arriving here, he found many Sword Cultivators gathered in a restaurant.

Out of curiosity and sensing that these Sword Cultivators were about to come out, he decided to wait in this restaurant for a while.

Although he could have directly spied on them, that would be against propriety.

"There is no need for formalities," Tan Shuchang said with a smile, then he looked at the two youths who were looking at him with hopeful faces and handed them two volumes of the "Sevenfold Demonic Body Scripture."

"Thank you, martial uncle!" The two youths were overjoyed. Being from Mount Disciple, they lacked no high-quality cultivation techniques; this gesture was simply a form of recognition for them.

"You deserve it," Tan Shuchang said. Although the Taiyi Sword Sect wasn't a top-level Immortal Sect, it was comparable to the Sharpening Sword Sect, and its cultivation atmosphere was somewhat better than that of Sharpening Sword Sect.

This was mainly associated with the core secret technique of Taiyi Sword Sect — the Seven Unfeeling Extinctions Technique.

However, ordinary disciples could only practice the Three Unfeeling Extinctions, direct disciples could practice the Five Unfeeling Extinctions, and only the leaders and elders were qualified to practice the Seven Unfeeling Extinctions.

Additionally, the disciples of Taiyi Sword Sect were not lifetime members upon entry.

At first, they practice the Three Unfeeling Extinctions Technique, and only if they succeed in the technique are they considered formally admitted to the sect. Otherwise, they would be sent away as nominal disciples.

Therefore, the disciples of Taiyi Sword Sect generally had a detached temperament and rarely caused trouble.

"What brings you to Yuezhou?" Tan Shuchang asked, somewhat surprised. Although he was not bloodthirsty and never initiated conflict without cause, he found it curious that these disciples of Mount Disciple had come to Yuezhou, especially as Black Heart Mountain was located here.

"Martial uncle, it was like this: Leader Qian sent us to scout out the realities of Black Heart Mountain," the two young men said earnestly, sharing everything they knew.

"I see..."

Tan Shuchang appeared contemplative, yet there was also an undeniably subtle expression on his face, "Just relying on you few to gather information about Black Heart Mountain?"

He didn't need to make a move himself, a "Blood God" with merely eight years of cultivation could massacre all these disciples of the Sharpening Sword Sect.

"Yes, because Master Qian said our strength is meager, which precisely allows us to avoid a lot of trouble and poses no danger to ourselves. But if an elder were to act, they might lose their life upon arriving in Yuezhou," the two young men said.

Upon hearing this, Tan Shuchang was somewhat surprised and thus smiled, "Then be careful in your actions and stay safe! Nephew Hong Yan, do you have something to tell me? Shall we change locations?"

"Okay!"

Hong Yan forcibly regained her composure, gave her fellow sect members a look as if saying goodbye, and followed Tan Shuchang.

Tan Shuchang didn't take her far, just across a street. Then, with a casual flick, he expanded a swath of blood light. Their figures concealed, he smiled and asked, "So, do you know who I am now?"

He had noticed the change in the young woman's expression from the beginning.

"Kill or slice as you wish!" the girl in the red dress retorted defiantly, as defiant as when he first met her.

Truly stubborn as a mule.

Tan Shuchang thought silently to himself and then said, "Why would I kill you? I am a person who likes cultivating and dislikes making moves. I prefer stillness over action. If none of you had disturbed me, I might still be unknown, unrecognized by anyone."

"Three hundred years of cultivation strength and still unknown?" Hong Yan couldn't help retorting, because she had never seen such pretense. It was a terrifying level of cultivation; excluding spiritual treasures, a mere gesture of his hand could suppress all cultivators in the world!

"You are mistaken; it's eight hundred years of cultivation strength. Recently, I've been diligently cultivating and have made some breakthroughs," said Tan Shuchang, his expression mild and his tone even gentler.

Hong Yan: "..."

The girl in the red dress, speechless, widened her eyes, unable to speak for a long time.

Three hundred years of cultivation strength was already astonishing, but now eight hundred years? What could their Sharpening Sword Sect face him with? Hong Yan thought of that highly-anticipated Son of the Heavenly Mandate, Long Zhangyuan, and she despaired.

In desperation, people always make incredible choices. Like now, the girl in the red dress suddenly knelt before Tan Shuchang: "Sacred Master, do you wish to accept me as your disciple? I am willing to serve as your insider in Sharpening Sword Sect!"

Because Hong Yan felt that with Tan Shuchang's status in the Immortal Cultivating world, he certainly wasn't simply chatting with her for no reason.

Tan Shuchang: "..."

Young people these days, how could they all be so quick to pledge allegiance? Dai Huanzhen was like this; this girl was like this. They all succumbed to the Demonic Path; what would happen if the Righteous Path couldn't compete? Would the Demonic Path change to follow the Righteous Path?

"I just happened to pass by and chat with you casually. The reason I called you over was just to ask which of your Sharpening Sword Sect is the one spreading rumors about my strange appearance?" said Tan Shuchang, trying to dispel any wild thoughts in the girl's mind.

"That, I don't know..." Hong Yan, relieved to hear it was just that, couldn't help but view Tan Shuchang a bit differently.

People all admire the strong, even the coldest beauties will change their attitudes in the presence of a powerful person.

"So you all just believed it? A gaping maw? Three arms and six legs?" Tan Shuchang's eyes betrayed a hint of exasperation. It was such an obviously fabricated story, and yet the disciples of the Sharpening Sword Sect believed it wholeheartedly, to the extent that it caused all sorts of bizarre incidents while he was cultivating through dream manipulation.

If not, they could at least have looked at the last volumes of my Cultivation Diary!

"This... I don't know..." Hong Yan shrank back a bit.

"Enough, here!"

Handing over a scroll of the "Sevenfold Demonic Body Scripture," Tan Shuchang was prepared to part ways. However, after receiving the Cultivation Technique, the girl in the red dress followed him: "Sacred Master, can I enter Black Heart Mountain?"

Seeing the earnest look on the girl's face, Tan Shuchang also spoke seriously, "Black Heart Mountain has long been disbanded, and furthermore, cultivating the demonic arts has no future."

The only treasured tome of Sacred Gate, the "Shadow Retaining Immortal Secret Tome," is suppressed by over a dozen Righteous Path treasured tomes, which signifies a very bleak future.

Not everyone can be like him, cultivating the "Cross Calamity Immortal Scripture" that disregards any suppression!