Cai Jinjian had been progressing quite quickly in her cultivation over the years, and she had already established her own abode on a mountain. She very rarely made any outings and spent almost all of her time focusing on her cultivation.1

On the way to the Azure Phoenix Nation, Chen Ping’an had encountered a black-robed young man by the name of Jiang Yun in that renowned alley at the Wasp Tail Ferry Station. He was the one who had initially attained the massive fated opportunity that was the small town’s Iron Lock Well. He was also the only direct disciple taken by Liu Laocheng outside of Palace Willow Island.0

Chen Ping’an had a decent impression of Jiang Yun, and aside from the protection that he was granted by the sagely jade tablet that he was carrying at the time, another important reason why he had dared to visit Liu Laocheng on Palace Willow Island was that Liu Laocheng had taken Jiang Yun as a disciple.0

Prince Gao Xuan of the Great Sui Nation had once intercepted the Dragon King Basket and that golden carp from Li Er, but Chen Ping’an held no grudge against him. In accordance with the terms of the pact signed between the Great Sui Nation’s Gao Clan and the Great Li Empire’s Song Clan, Gao Xuan was sent to Cloud Drape Mountain as a hostage to study at Forest Deer Academy.0

Gao Xuan hadn’t intentionally concealed his own name during his time at the academy. Previously, Chen Ping’an had met with Gao Xuan when he traveled with Li Baoping and the other children to the Great Sui Nation's Mountain Cliff Academy.0

From that point onward, there seemed to have been a tacit understanding between the two, and they hadn’t met again since then, nor had there been any communication between the two. It would not have been a good thing for either of them to have gotten too close to one another.0

After the mother-and-son duo from the Light Breeze City Xu Clan obtained...1