C429 The Prelude

"Eh?"

Other than Chiang Yuan, the expressions of everyone else changed when they heard what Duan Qiancheng said. This information was simply too shocking. They didn't even have the time to react.

After Lee Zhuohua heard what Duanqiancheng said, he was also surprised. However, when he was in Yan Lai City, Chiang Yuan had told him about Duanqianyue. After some thought, he finally understood.

Presumably, this Duanqianyue was Duan Qiancheng's brother.

Lin Qi and the others, on the other hand, were completely taken aback. They never would have thought that one of the Outer Palace's leading disciples would actually be Duan Qiancheng's elder brother.

It was not that this matter was unacceptable, but that the strength of Duanqianyue was simply too strong. In comparison, no one would have thought that Duanqianyue would have such a brother.

However, for the two of them to be able to enter the Qian Yuan Academy, it could be said that it was the good fortune of Yan Lai's Broken Family.

"This is really ..." Lee Zhuohua opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he did not say anything. He was afraid that Duanqiancheng would be embarrassed.

But when Duanqiancheng saw Lee Zhuohua's reaction, he only shook his head as if he didn't care.

"Although he is my elder brother, he doesn't have any relationship with me right now. He is on the side of the older students, while I belong to the camp of the new students." Duanqiancheng put away his previous expression and spoke in a calm tone, as if it was really as he had said, that he had nothing to do with Duanqianyue.

In regards to this, everyone could tell that he did not want to talk about the matter of Duanqianyue, so they tactfully did not pursue the matter any further.

After that, Lee Zhuohua did not mention anything about the disciple competition or the two leading disciples. He turned his head and looked at Di Chixing who was on the other side.

"I wonder why Brother Di is looking for me." Lee Zhuohua knew that Di Chixing might have coincidentally met Chiang Yuan and the others, so he must have a different purpose than Chiang Yuan and the others.

Di Chixing had been listening to the conversation between Lee Zhuohua and Chiang Yuan all this time, but now that Lee Zhuohua suddenly asked him, he also paused for a moment before reacting.

"I ..."

Di Chixing had come this time to find Lee Zhuohua for the matter of joining the Lake Gate. Now that he had met Lee Zhuohua, he naturally wouldn't not mention this matter.

The Lake Gate was an Alliance Of Rebirth, and naturally, the other freshmen would not refuse if they wanted to join, not to mention that Lee Zhuohua also knew the strength of Di Chixing's team.

Therefore, after Di Chixing and Lee Zhuohua explained his purpose of coming here, Lee Zhuohua agreed. As for the matter of accepting, Lee Zhuohua handed it over to Lin Qi and the others.

In the end, after chatting with Lee Zhuohua for a while, Chiang Yuan and the others also left on their own accord. Because Di Chixing had come alone here, he had to go back and tell his teammates that the Lake Gate had already accepted them.

Lee Zhuohua looked at the departing figures of Chiang Yuan and the others, but in his heart, he began to think about the disciple competition.

"After condensing two Divine Flowers and becoming the leader of the disciples, it's going to be a bit troublesome. However, as long as I can get into the top ten of the disciple competition, I can represent Qian Yuan Academy in the Sandalwood Book Will, so I don't have to compete with those two." Lee Zhuohua's goal was also very clear, he wanted to go to the Sandalwood Book Will, but he knew that with his current strength, he was still not strong enough to fight against the two leader disciples.

Therefore, he decided to take a step back. As long as he could be ranked within the top ten of the Outer Palace's disciple competition, he would be able to do so.

Although there were still many strong people among the older students that he had never seen before, he was very confident in his own strength. He still had a chance of getting into the top ten.

......

At the headquarters of the Yuan Alliance.

This was the deepest part of the Yuan Alliance headquarters, and other than Yan Zhengtine and a few elders of the Yuan Alliance, everyone else was forbidden to enter.

It was simply because this was the residence of the strongest person in the Yuan Alliance, Xu Daolin.

This courtyard was much larger than the residences of the ordinary disciples. But now, it was extremely quiet, as if there was no one here.

However, if one looked carefully, they would see a tall and straight figure standing quietly under a big tree in the courtyard.

This person was none other than Xu Daolin.

After the visit of Duan Qianyue, Xu Daolin had never been immersed in his cultivation. For the past two days, he seemed to have felt something and had been standing under this big tree the entire time. His gaze drifted and he did not know what he was looking at. There were only occasional flashes of golden light in his eyes.

He seemed to be thinking about something.

"Duanqianyue, Lee Zhuohua." Xu Daolin muttered these two names under his breath, but his expression did not change in the slightest.

Following that, after he said these two names, a surging aura began to surge from the surface of his body.

"Hua."

This imposing aura directly shook the entire tree until it started to fall off large amounts of leaves.

A leaf brushed past in front of him. Xu Daolin's eyes flashed slightly, and then his expression began to loosen.

As if he saw something, but also as if he had thought of something, Xu Daolin, who seemed to have caught on to something in his mind, withdrew his aura at this moment and sat down cross-legged.

From the looks of it, he seemed to have obtained something.

...

In another disciple's residence in the Outer Palace.

This place was a quiet corner of the Outer Palace, and logically speaking, no one would be living here, but there was a house in this corner, which meant that there was also someone living here.

Perhaps it was because this place was too quiet and secluded, but the other disciples of the academy would not come here at all.

In this simple house, there was a handsome man holding a wine pot in his hand. He was drinking and laughing at the same time.

This man's eyes were like stars, and his eyebrows were like swords. Due to the smell of alcohol, there was a hint of red on his face. If one looked carefully, they would see that he was full of a lewd aura.

This person was Duanqiancheng's older brother, Duanqianyue.

After paying a visit to Xu Daolin, Duanqianyue returned to his own residence. He had not cultivated for the past two days, as if he was tired from completing his task and had been drinking all this time.

"I didn't expect that little brother would also come to the academy. Hahaha, good, good." Duan Qianyue muttered to himself as he took another sip of wine.

It seemed that he was happy that Duan Qiancheng had also entered the academy, but he did not look for him. This was truly strange.

After drinking a mouthful of strong wine, he wiped the corner of his mouth, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared.

"Xu Daolin, I will not let you steal my limelight in this year's disciple competition." As he spoke, his eyes suddenly lit up with an indescribable aura that shot into the sky from his body.

Xu Daolin was also the disciple of the Outer Palace's two great leaders, and there was already a clear winner between them, but there had never been such an opportunity.

And now that the disciple competition was about to begin, it had become such an opportunity.

Sooner or later, both of them would enter the Inner Palace of the academy. Some of them would even say that they would be able to decide what to do once they entered the Inner Palace of the academy.

In reality, it was not the case. This was just a battle of beliefs between the two of them. The Inner Palace of the academy was filled with older senior students, and only the two of them were truly of the same generation. People like them naturally wanted to fight for the title of number one among their generation.

It was precisely because they had such a belief that they could reach this stage step by step.

...

The disciple competition was about to begin, and it was quietly changing the atmosphere in the Outer Palace. The two leading disciples were hidden, the Yuan Alliance kept a low profile, and the Lake Gate was secretly developing.

Everything seemed to be waiting for the arrival of the disciple competition.

Some of the people who knew the significance of the disciple competition made up their minds at this moment.

Not only the two leading disciples, but the others also had their own targets.

For example, The Mad Demon and Track Of Ren Yun, after they entered their respective halls, they plunged into their own cultivation. However, only they knew that they were doing this in order to surpass Lee Zhuohua, who had surpassed them at Freshmen Trial.