Countless people had enormous expectations for themselves, and Chen Yan was increasingly realizing that cultivation was not as easy as he had imagined.

Ever since the sect competition, although Chen Yan had won in the end, the experience had also made him much more composed.

He truly was a cultivation prodigy.

Even in the Kongshan Sect, one of the Five Great Sects of Chenping Continent, Chen Yan still stood out.

But he was not the only prodigy.

Perhaps when he had faced Li Haowen in the sect competition, Li Haowen’s age had indeed given him an advantage over Chen Yan.

But that had also made Chen Yan truly understand that there was always someone better, and greater heights beyond the heavens.

Perhaps his cultivation talent was not enough to make him truly invincible among his generation of disciples.

Or rather, talent alone was not enough.

He would have to work even harder.

With these thoughts, Chen Yan began devoting all his attention to cultivation.

There were still five months before the Dao Inquiry Assembly of Chenping Continent officially began.

By now, the identities of the Kongshan Sect’s three Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquirers were almost completely settled.

Chu Xiyao, Chief Disciple of Qingchan Peak.

Chen Yan, chief disciple of Kongyuan Mountain.

And Lin Xinyang, the personal disciple of Yuanhua Mountain’s Dignity Elder.

In fact, within the Kongshan Sect, there had been some hesitation over the third candidate for this Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry.

That was because a rising star had recently emerged on Qingchan Peak.

She was Qin Yue, the Princess of Cloud Prince Manor in the Qingque Kingdom, whom Bai Qiming, the Upholding Law Elder of Qingchan Peak, had taken as his personal disciple a little over a year ago.

Over the past year, Qin Yue’s cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds. In particular, last month, after Bai Qiming somehow obtained a fragment of the Pure Dust Glazed Art, the personal cultivation method of Pure Dust True Person of Heavenly Summit Mountain, Qin Yue’s cultivation progress had become even more astonishing.

It was almost certain that she would break through to the Martial Spring Realm before the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry began.

Bai Qiming himself even believed Qin Yue had a good chance of reaching the mid-stage Martial Spring Realm before the Dao Inquiry Assembly of Chenping Continent took place.

If that really happened, many people in the sect might hope to give Qin Yue the opportunity to attend the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry as a Dao Inquirer representing the Kongshan Sect, so she could broaden her horizons.

With her Glazed Pure Body and her practice of the Pure Dust Glazed Art, if Qin Yue reached the mid-stage Martial Spring Realm, then judging by Lin Xinyang’s performance in the previous sect competition, he would probably be no match for her.

Moreover, Qin Yue’s future was boundless.

Now, with the Path to Immortality having been severed for a full seven thousand years, almost no one had described another person’s cultivation talent as “aptitude for Ascending to Immortality” in nearly two thousand years.

But Qin Yue might just deserve the description.

She possessed the same Pure Dust Glazed Body as Pure Dust True Person, the tenth-generation Ascended Steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain.

A very small number of people had even begun to fantasize that perhaps Qin Yue could break the curse that had severed the Path to Immortality and step into the Immortal Ascension Realm.

But most people thought that was impossible.

After Heavenly Summit Mountain fell, several cultivators with Glazed Pure Bodies had appeared on Chenping Continent over the tens of thousands of years that followed. The most recent one had joined Lingxiao Temple in the Eastern Domain of Chenping Continent six thousand years ago.

In the end, that cultivator had met their demise while still in the Qi Sea Realm.

Although most people believed Qin Yue had no chance of breaking the curse that had severed the Path to Immortality, and that her rate of progress through the Lower Three Realms was no basis for judging her ultimate achievements, everyone believed that her reaching the upper three realms was all but certain.

As for whether Qin Yue or Lin Xinyang would be the Kongshan Sect’s third Dao Inquirer for this Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry, the final decision rested with Yun Yichen, the current Sect Leader of the Kongshan Sect.

And Yun Yichen was in no hurry.

He planned to make his final decision four months later, when the Kongshan Sect’s delegation was about to set out for Heavenly Summit Mountain.

Not long ago, Chen Yan had heard another piece of news.

At the previous outer court competition, a young female disciple had performed exceptionally well. Mingxiao Peak had taken notice of her, and she had ultimately become an inner disciple there.

The young woman’s name was Cheng Ziying.

It should have been about five years since Chen Yan left the Kongshan Sect’s outer court.

His memories of that former neighbor had grown somewhat hazy.

But when he thought of her name, Chen Yan suddenly remembered what he had said to her before leaving the outer court.

He wondered whether his words back then had encouraged her at all.

With that thought, Chen Yan soon put Cheng Ziying out of his mind and gave it no further consideration.

Over the past two and a half years, Chen Yan’s cultivation had advanced from the early stage of the Martial Spring Realm to its late stage.

Based on his current cultivation rate, Chen Yan believed he could probably break through to the Qi Sea Realm before turning twenty-one.

By then, he would most likely step down from his position as chief disciple of Kongyuan Mountain and compete with Li Haowen for the position of Daomen Xingzou of the Kongshan Sect.

The current Daomen Xingzou of the Kongshan Sect was Liu Yantang, the youngest disciple of Sect Leader Yun.

Among this generation of Kongshan Sect disciples, only three people would be qualified to contend for the position of Daomen Xingzou after Liu Yantang stepped down.

There was no need to say who those three were.

But in fact, Chu Xiyao had already been ruled out of the competition for the position of Daomen Xingzou of the Kongshan Sect.

Her personality simply did not suit the role.

Of the three, Li Haowen was actually the best fit in terms of personality.

But although Li Haowen had a dignified appearance, he would still fall a little short as the public face of the Kongshan Sect.

So who was both handsome and outgoing?

The answer was obvious.

Chen Yan was supremely confident that he could become the next Daomen Xingzou of the Kongshan Sect.

Besides the advantages already mentioned, he was also a disciple of Kongyuan Mountain.

Being a Kongyuan Mountain disciple would clearly give him an edge in the competition for the position of Daomen Xingzou.

But at present, Chen Yan did not particularly care about the competition for the position of Daomen Xingzou.

He had greater ambitions.

It was said that Heavenly Summit Palace concealed Heavenly Summit Mountain’s greatest opportunity and secret, and that only cultivators at the Martial Spring Realm or below could enter it.

Yet Heavenly Summit Mountain had been destroyed for nearly seventy thousand years, and still no one had obtained the opportunity hidden within Heavenly Summit Palace.

When Chen Yan heard this legend, he immediately perked up.

The opportunity in Heavenly Summit Palace might very well have been prepared for a transmigrator like him.

Otherwise, why had no one obtained it after all these tens of thousands of years?

Perhaps the opportunity hidden in Heavenly Summit Palace was some profound cultivation method engraved on the walls in English...

If so, then he, a transmigrator, really would be the only one capable of deciphering it.

Chen Yan had already begun indulging in such fantasies.

If he wanted to make them come true, Chen Yan would have to face an impassable wall at the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry:

Qin Qingyu.

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