Chapter 21: Calamity of No Cause

  "Go quickly, I'll wait for you at the foot of the mountain." Qin Tianhu said.

  Qin Yong noticed Qin Tianhu's unnatural behavior and understood that Qin Tianhu was alone here, definitely feeling uncomfortable in his heart, and worried about offending any of the Yunhai Sect disciples. Qin Yong didn't say anything about it, just nodded and left quickly to head to Liu Yan's residence.

  Liu Yan's residence is in a central area of Yunhai Sect, where almost all the inner door disciples or elders live, with only a few exceptions. Each inner door disciple has an independent courtyard, which is different from Qin Yong's situation. Qin Yong also lives in an independent courtyard, but that's because he needs to take care of the medicine field, and the medicine field in the yard is his daily work.

  Qin Yong, a miscellaneous servant disciple, would not have been able to come here in the past, but now Qin Yong helps Liu Yan do things and has not encountered much difficulty. However, walking towards Liu Yan's separate courtyard, the disdainful glances from those inner door disciples along the way still made Qin Yong slightly uncomfortable, but he could do nothing about it. Even outer door disciples who came here were treated like this, let alone Qin Yong.

  Soon, Qin Yong arrived at Liu Yan's separate courtyard and stood in front of the gate, knocking on the door. If the inner disciples were not out on a mission, they would usually be cultivating in their residences, and it was rare for them to sneak out. Those who could reach this level were almost all extremely diligent cultivators. Qin Yong knew that Liu Yan had not gone out, which was why he came over, believing that she must be inside the courtyard now.

  The knock on the door was very light, but Qin Yong believed that Liu Yan must have heard it. Sure enough, before long, Qin Yong heard the sound of the courtyard gate being opened, and soon it swung open. Liu Yan looked just as she had every other day, her calm and collected demeanor making people not dare to get close to her.

  "Qin Yong?" Liu Yan's eyebrows rose slightly, a hint of surprise flickered across her face before she broke into a gentle smile.

  This made the nearby inner disciples notice, and they were so surprised that they almost cried out in shock. After all, Liu Yan was not an ice beauty, but she wasn't someone who could be approached by just anyone. Even among the inner disciples and core disciples who pursued Liu Yan, those geniuses only got a bland interaction from her, with very few smiles. Only a few female disciples who were relatively close to Liu Yan could get this treatment, as for male disciples, one slap would be enough.

  Unexpectedly, Liu Yan, who usually doesn't show any expression to the male disciples, actually smiled when she saw a miscellaneous disciple. Moreover, when Liu Yan allowed Qin Yong to enter the courtyard, everyone was shocked and completely stunned.

  Hmph!

  At this time, the nearby inner disciples seemed to hear a loud hum, and they all looked at a courtyard not far from Yuxuan's courtyard. That was the courtyard of Yuan Tiangang, a genius of the inner sect.

  Outside the sect, there are ten great geniuses, and Wang Hai is one of them. They are the top ten geniuses who are expected to enter the inner sect within two years. However, in the inner sect, such geniuses are actually not worth looking at. Only two or three people need to be taken seriously. The geniuses in the inner sect have only three people who are expected to become core disciples within five years.

  Among them, Liu Yan can become a core disciple in three years at the latest, which is recognized by everyone. However, Liu Yan can only rank second among the top three geniuses of the inner door. The one ranked first is Li Xuan, who has now reached the ninth level of the Xuanwu realm and is 20 years old. This time, Li Xuan challenged a core disciple but unfortunately lost by a small margin. However, everyone understands that in at most a year's time, even if Li Xuan doesn't break through to the Earth Realm, he can still become a core disciple through challenge.

  It's not that Liu Yan's talent is inferior to Li Yun, because Liu Yan is three years younger than Li Yun, and their cultivation levels are only two small stages apart. It's just that on the True Martial Continent, strength is revered, so since Li Yun is stronger than Liu Yan, he naturally ranks above her. The top three geniuses of the inner sect are Li Yun first, Liu Yan second, and as for third, it's Yuan Tiangang.

  At the age of nineteen, he had already reached the seventh level of Xuanwu Realm. In terms of strength alone, he was no inferior to Liu Yan. If they were to really fight, it would likely be a evenly matched battle. As for Yuan Tiangang, he was also one of Liu Yan's powerful pursuers, and had even regarded Liu Yan as his own woman. Any inner disciple who got close to Liu Yan on a daily basis would receive Yuan Tiangang's interrogation and reprimand.

  At this moment, Qin Yong actually made Liu Yan smile and entered her courtyard, which made Yuan Tiangeng very unhappy and let out a angry hum. Originally, Yuan Tiangeng didn't put Qin Yong, this miscellaneous disciple, in his eyes. Not to mention miscellaneous disciples, even outer door disciples were like ants in his eyes. Even Wang Hai, the so-called outer door genius, was not taken seriously by him. This person who couldn't attract his attention actually dared to get close to Liu Yan, and although he was an ant, he was also a man, Yuan Tiangeng's anger was immediately triggered.

  Those inner disciples who noticed the situation secretly wiped away cold sweat, and many of them had suffered losses before. They felt fortunate that this time it wasn't targeted at themselves, and also pitied Qin Yong. They all understood that Qin Yong was probably the disciple that Liu Yan had found to take care of the spiritual medicine, and this time he came over for a legitimate reason. After all, they didn't think that Liu Yan, an inner door genius who would definitely become a core disciple in the future, would be interested in a waste like him. But unexpectedly, Yuan Tian Gang was such an unreasonable guy, and probably after this, he would think of ways to torment Qin Yong.

  Fortunately, Yuantian Gang was not only cautious but also had enough arrogance to disdain taking action against a miscellaneous disciple, otherwise he might have directly slapped him to death. For an inner door genius like Yuantian Gang, even if he killed an outer door disciple, the Cloud Sea Sect would not dare to heavily punish him for it.

  Qin Yong didn't know that he came to find Liu Yan, but unexpectedly encountered a disaster, offending someone even more terrifying than Wang Hai. At this time, Qin Yong followed Liu Yan into the courtyard and arrived at a stone table in the center of the courtyard. There were four small stone chairs, and Liu Yan sat down casually. On the stone table, there was tea and snacks, it seemed that Liu Yan had been here before Qin Yong arrived. Liu Yan was very casual, but Qin Yong had self-awareness, so he just stood there.

  "What are you looking for me?" Liu Yan only glanced at Qin Yong and then asked with a faint smile.

  Qin Yong knew that Liu Yan's attitude towards him was not bad, but that was all. In fact, she just wanted to find him as a follower disciple. So, seeing Qin Yong standing, Liu Yan was also very casual and did not ask Qin Yong to sit down, because the identities of the two were originally not equal. As for this, Qin Yong had no dissatisfaction, the strong were respected in the True Martial Continent, it was originally so, and Liu Yan could have such an attitude, which was already quite rare.