Chapter Fifty-One: Listen to Heaven and Follow Destiny

  "You..."

  Hou Dan was choked with emotion and couldn't speak a word.

  If it were up to Lǐ Chén to choose, no matter what their goals were, he could be certain that Lǐ Chén would never choose him. After all, who let him beat Lǐ Chén half to death?

  "Cough! Cough!"

  It seemed that the two were about to glare at each other indefinitely, neither willing to back down, so Li Chen had no choice but to clear his throat a few times to remind them.

  "What's with all the coughing? You're still young and don't have any illness! Tell me, who are you choosing?"

  Hou Danchen's old eyes glared, and he said in a bad temper.

  "It's settled then! No matter what your choice is, I can guarantee that no one will dare bully you on Nan Yun Peak!"

  Zang Xing glanced at Hou Dan Chen with a hint of meaning in his eyes that didn't need to be said.

  "Master of the hall, Master of the temple!"

  Li Chen was oppressed by the faint aura emanating from the two men, feeling stifled, and had no choice but to bow to them one by one. "May I ask my juniors, what brings you here?"

  "You little brat won't be so unyielding, will you? You look quite sturdy, huh? Alright then, I'll let you choose between me and Zombie Face to be your master!"

  Hou Dan Chen looked up and down at Li Chen, although his words were quite impolite, but in his old eyes, there was a hint of concern.

  "Choose a master?"

  Li Chen was stunned for a moment, but then immediately understood that these two giants had indeed taken a liking to him, this natural waste.

  First there was Li Mingyun, this old freak who seemed to be a strong Danxuan realm practitioner, who inexplicably took him on as an apprentice and gave him a jade slip that he couldn't even read before leaving him behind.

  Now that he had fought with Zhang Chulang, the two giants of Nanyun Peak were also vying for him, and Li Chen really didn't know when he became the coveted treasure of everyone.

  "Not bad!"

  Zang Xing's eyes shone brightly as he stared at Li Chen, as if he was gazing at a priceless treasure.

  Being stared at by these two powerful men, Li Chen felt unnatural all over his body, and he was even more suspicious in his heart.

  Judging from his qualifications, although they are quite good, it's not to the point where he would be fought over by two people like this. Could it be that his own cultivation of the Small Heavenly Cycle had reached perfection at the tenth level and was discovered by them?

  But thinking about it again doesn't feel right, according to Li Mingyun's words that day, there are very few people who know this term for martial arts, how can two strong practitioners of the Gongyuan realm just happen to recognize each other?

  "Kid, as long as you acknowledge me as your master, the elixir, martial arts, and spiritual soldiers are all yours to choose from. I guarantee that within five years, you'll break through to the Solid Origin Realm!"

  Seeing him hesitate, Hou Dan Chen tempted him.

  "Hmph, what do you have? I don't lack anything here."

  Zang Xing let out a cold snort, without any intention of yielding.

  "Zombie face, have you decided to compete with me?"

  Hou Dan Chen said with an icy expression on his old face.

  "Old Monkey, must you compete with me for people at the Temple of Abstinence?"

  Zang Xingqian was unwilling to show weakness.

  "Let's settle this once and for all, whoever wins gets to keep this little guy!"

  Hou Danchen's old eyes narrowed, shooting out two dangerous rays of light, and the aura around him surged again.

  "Bring it on! You've never surpassed me since the early stages of your cultivation in the Foundational Realm!"

  Zang Xing's eyes were fixed on Hou Dan Chen, his stance open and ready, as if the next moment would bring a life-or-death battle.

  Whoosh!

  Lei Peng saw it was not good and let out a loud cry, flapping his wings to fly to the top of a distant ancient tree.

  Squeak!

  The little monkey was also a clever master, seeing that the two old monsters in front of him were not easy to mess with, and had no intention of killing Lí Chén. He dodged Lí Chén and swiftly climbed to the corner of the roof, peeking out curiously at the commotion.

  "The abbot and the master of the hall have already got a teacher!"

  Seeing the two of them fighting like children scrambling for candy, Li Chen was so fed up that he could only tell the truth, secretly scolding the behavior of the two little guys in his heart.

  "What?"

  The two of them floated up to him at the same time, one of them pressed his shoulder and said in a cold voice: "Who is he? Where is he? Find him out and fight with us!"

  "Hiss!"

  Li Chen couldn't withstand the grasp of the two giants, and he was instantly in pain, gritting his teeth, and almost got his entire arm crushed.

  Seeing this, the two of them awkwardly withdrew their hands and exchanged a glance.

  "I don't know where he is either, but I'm sure two of us can't beat him!"

  Li Chen recounted the events of that day one by one, but concealed the fact that he had completed the tenth level of the Small Zhou Tian, wanting to see if the two knew or not.

  Li Mingyun took him as his apprentice, but Li Chen's many years of hardship had long made him unwilling to easily trust others.

  His behavior was suspicious, with that kind of cultivation, he had been hiding in the Li family for many years. It's worth noting that his three-year-long experience as a medicine slave was all under the other person's control.

  That time, the mournful howls from the poisonous medicine's refinement, the apathetic and inhuman stare, every time she thought about it, Li Chen felt a chill run down her spine.

  Now he himself has swallowed the demon core and cultivated his inner breath, and when they meet again, the other party has inexplicably become a peerless strongman in the Danxuan realm. To know that even the entire Xuan Yun Sect probably only has one sect master.

  What's even more bizarre is that he actually took him on as an apprentice.

  If such a thing happened to someone else, they might be overjoyed, but for Li Chen, it felt like an inexplicable crisis.

  Of course, he would never say such things, only that he inadvertently revealed his cultivation and attracted the attention of a superior being from outside the world, who took him in as a nominal disciple.

  "Tan Xuanjing's Master!"

  Two people, what kind of insight, Li Chen's description of Li Mingyun was only a few words, but they still managed to guess that it must be the representation that only Dan Xuanjing strong people have, and fell into deep thought.

  Li Chen didn't rush them either, as long as they wouldn't fight, that was enough, lest he suffer the consequences of being a fish in the same pond.

  "How do you see it?"

  Rarely, Hou Dan Chen did not call Zang Xing Qian's nickname.

  "It's the only thing to do!"

  Zang Xing nodded with a face devoid of expression.

  Li Chen listened with a bewildered expression, looked at it with confusion, but in his heart, a faint sense of unease rose up.

  Two old men behaving strangely, it's really fallen into their hands, and they may not be better off than facing Li Mingyun, that mysterious old monster.

  With his current cultivation, he naturally didn't know that among highly skilled martial artists, there was a secret technique called "Transmitting Sound into the Ear".

  The two seemed to have said nothing, but in fact they had been secretly discussing for a long time, only he didn't notice.

  "Listen up, kid! We won't hold you accountable for what you did before, but you have to agree to one thing!"

  Hou Dan Chen's face turned solemn as he spoke.

  "I'm not deceiving you, masters of the house, regarding what Chu Long said earlier. Although I've experienced all that, it's absolutely not me who started trouble first!"

  Li Chen hastily explained, trying to clear up the trouble no matter what.

  "Hmph, regardless of whether it was you who did it or not, since we said we wouldn't pursue it, then we won't!"

  He shot him a sideways glance, the implication clear: we're going to take care of this, you're as good as dead. We won't pursue it further, whatever you want to do is up to you, just watch yourself.

  Li Chen was naturally a clever person, how could he not hear the meaning behind the words? His mouth twitched with a mixture of emotions, but he had no choice but to hang his head in defeat, revealing a resigned expression.

  "Hey, you young fellow should be grateful. Let me tell you, others want this opportunity but can't get it. I don't know how many people are crying and begging us to give them this chance!"

  Hou Dan Chen smiled reluctantly.

  "What instructions do you have for me, seniors? I will follow them carefully!"

  Li Chen knew he was now at the mercy of others and could only follow his fate.