novelraw Chapter 360 - 192: The Observatory Master’s Identity! Becoming Master of the School of Non-action (Part 2)
Chapter 360 - 192: The Observatory Master’s Identity! Becoming Master of the School of Non-action (Part 2)
"You were ambushed by the Lord of the Jiang Palace in East Mountain Province—it was because he tipped them off..."
"Samadhi True Flame, ah, this Divine Technique is an absolute temptation for the Lord of the Jiang Palace."
"What!?"
Zhang Fan’s face changed dramatically at these words, hardly able to believe what he’d just heard.
How perilous was that day in East Mountain Province?
Ming Shenshou, Lord of the Jiang Palace, had such cultivation that even the Lao Mountain Sect Leader couldn’t withstand him. Zhang Fan almost thought he’d die there.
And now Lin Jianyue was telling him it was Zhao Jie Xuan who tipped them off!?
"Is he mad? Is his brain filled with liquid mercury?" Zhang Fan said in a low, grim voice.
"He said you’d definitely survive." Lin Jianyue shook his head.
Zhao Jie Xuan had told him that he already knew the Lao Mountain Sect Leader had descended the mountain, and that he also had an informant at Zhenwu Mountain—news came from there that Liu Nanxu was heading to East Mountain as well.
Zhao Jie Xuan calculated when these two top experts would meet Zhang Fan. Only then did he leak the information to Ming Shenshou.
With Li Chengge and Liu Nanxu present—even if Ming Shenshou’s Divine Techniques were formidable, it wouldn’t be so easy to carve up Zhang Fan.
In fact, everything went just as Zhao Jie Xuan had predicted.
Ming Shenshou, though he didn’t get what he wanted, valued Zhao Jie Xuan even more, and even rewarded him generously.
"Since you wouldn’t die, why not let him cash in a little favor?" In his mind, Lin Jianyue heard Zhao Jie Xuan’s words again.
"That bastard, if I ever—" Zhang Fan ground his teeth in rage.
"Wait."
Before Zhang Fan finished, Lin Jianyue hurriedly cut him off.
"What?"
"He asked me to give you a message."
"What?"
"He said, ’If you curse him, you’re cursing yourself.’"
"..."
Zhang Fan could only feel a bitter taste at the edge of his lips. By comparison, the black coffee in his hand even seemed sweet.
He somewhat regretted cultivating that damned Divine Splitting Technique.
"Alright, so why are you in Yujing City? The situation here is tense enough as it is," Zhang Fan said in a low voice.
Fang Changying and Jiang Li had stirred up an uproar in Yujing City; one dead, one captured—it seemed the storm had subsided, but the expert who killed Fang Changying was even more troubling.
Now the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance was at their wit’s end and ready to take real action.
At such a time, for Rabbit to dare come to Yujing City—isn’t that Longevity Star drinking poison, looking for death?
"I’m afraid Yujing City is about to get even more chaotic," Lin Jianyue lowered his voice.
"Why?" Zhang Fan asked, puzzled.
"Did you know there’s a Deserted Mountain in Yujing City?" Lin Jianyue replied with a question.
"Hm!?"
Zhang Fan paused, and at the mention of this mountain, his gaze grew sharp as a blade.
"What, does it have something to do with this mountain?"
"There’s a Daoist Temple on Deserted Mountain called Jue Miaoguan. Its Observatory Master is no ordinary person—one of the handful of top experts in the world, easily among the top five."
Lin Jianyue’s words confirmed Zhang Fan’s suspicions.
As expected, the top-five expert Liu Nanxu had mentioned was right there on Deserted Mountain — the very ’Observatory Master of the Perfect View’ the black-furred rat had spoken of that day.
"Do you know who this Observatory Master of the Perfect View is?" Lin Jianyue asked softly.
"Who?" Zhang Fan asked curiously.
A top-five in the world was certainly no nameless figure—such an expert couldn’t just appear out of nowhere. They must have a significant origin.
"He’s the Vice Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect!"
"What?" Zhang Fan showed a look of great surprise.
The great master Liu Nanxu had talked about turned out to be the Vice Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect?
You should know, ever since the Three Corpses Daoist, the leadership of the Wuwei Sect has been vacant for eighty years with no successor to this day.
In other words, with the sect leader absent, the vice sect leader is nominally the master of the Wuwei Sect, and holds the highest authority within it.
"Observatory Master of the Perfect View... Vice Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect... He has such a tremendous background?" Questions welled up in Zhang Fan’s heart.
Why would the Vice Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect be in Yujing City, and even own a Daoist Temple on Deserted Mountain?
"His name is..."
Lin Jianyue hesitated, then dipped his slender finger in the lemon water and wrote a name on the table.
"Mr. Nian!?"
"He’s quite a unique figure in the Wuwei Sect. Even the Lords of the Three Palaces’ cultivation can’t compare to his," Lin Jianyue said gravely.
"I heard that many years ago, he even hid his name, concealed his cultivation, and entered Zhenwu Mountain as a disciple."
"What!?"
"He’s really bold," Zhang Fan couldn’t help clicking his tongue in amazement.
It’s said that the greater one’s skill, the greater one’s daring—this Mr. Nian must have nerves of steel. As Vice Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect, he actually went to Zhenwu Mountain, even joined as a disciple!
"He’s very unusual, extremely unusual. So much so that no one noticed a single flaw—he actually stayed at Zhenwu Mountain for a full five years," Lin Jianyue, upon first hearing of this, couldn’t believe it either.
"Five years and no one found out? No way, what about Transcendent Zhenren?" Zhang Fan asked in confusion.
"Transcendent Zhenren saw through him the very first day he entered the mountain." A deep fear surfaced in Lin Jianyue’s eyes.
Chu Chaoran’s cultivation is terrifying beyond imagination.
"Then why..." Zhang Fan was baffled.
"At the Pure Yang Wuji Realm, such a being’s mind is broader than the heavens. Perhaps Transcendent Zhenren simply didn’t care, or maybe he saw it all as a game..."
"He was waiting..."
"Waiting for what?"
"Waiting for the other to realize that he’d already been found out."
Such a simple sentence, yet it took some thought; Zhang Fan turned it over in his mind before getting it.
Mr. Nian entered Zhenwu Mountain to see who could discover him.
Chu Chaoran, too, was curious—when would this up-and-comer realize he’d already been seen through?
"Five years—Mr. Nian used five years to finally realize he’d been under Transcendent Zhenren’s watch the whole time," Lin Jianyue sighed.