85: The first meeting between two geniuses!

“This is the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty…?”

“As expected of the core region of the Central Province, the spiritual energy concentration here is simply incomparable to the desolate and barren lands of the Ten Thousand Dynasty Domain…”

The moment Lin Yan stepped onto the territory of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty, he was shocked by the rich spiritual energy surrounding him.

At this time, three days had passed since he left Salt City. After transferring through multiple teleportation arrays, he finally emerged from a teleportation array within a city named Purple Extreme Saint City, officially stepping onto the territory of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty.

In these three days, he first hurried to an Imperial Dynasty closest to the Canglan Dynasty, took its teleportation array to the only Saint Dynasty in the Ten Thousand Dynasty Domain—Mount Heaven Saint Dynasty, took the Ten Thousand Dynasty Domain's only long-distance teleportation array to the core region of the Human territory in the Central Province, and then transferred through two more teleportation arrays before finally arriving at Purple Extreme Saint City.

“What are you standing there for! Hurry up!”

Just as Lin Yan was sighing with emotion, a voice urging him suddenly came from beside him.

Lin Yan instantly looked up and saw that it was the Cultivator guarding the teleportation array.

Seeing this, Lin Yan was not annoyed. Instead, he walked up to the Cultivator, seemingly casually handed one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to him, and said with a smile:

“Senior, please don't mind…”

The guarding Cultivator saw this, also casually took it, and lost the arrogance he had just shown, instead saying in a gentle tone:

“No problem, no problem!”

Lin Yan then took the opportunity to ask, “Senior, is there a teleportation array to Heavenly Saint City?”

Heavenly Saint City was the largest and most prosperous city within the Lin Family's territory, and also the Lin Family's external window.

Generally, the most that ordinary forces or rogue Cultivators could reach was Heavenly Saint City. As for the Lin Family itself, ordinary forces simply had no qualification to approach it.

At the very least, one had to be a Saint-level force to have the qualification to directly contact the Lin Family. In the past, only forces with a Saint Emperor Realm expert had the qualification to converse with the Lin Family on equal terms.

And now, only Quasi-Emperor-level forces have the qualification to converse with the Lin Family on equal terms; Saint Emperor Realm forces are no longer qualified!

Since he was not very familiar with this place, Lin Yan could only inquire of the local Cultivators.

His current cultivation was still low. If he traveled alone, not only would it take too long, but he might also encounter danger. Therefore, during this time, he basically finished using one teleportation array and immediately went to use another, never running around by himself.

After all, this place was different from the small place that was the Ten Thousand Dynasty Domain. Here, there were countless experts. True Cave Heaven Realm experts were everywhere, and Dharma Idols were as numerous as dogs. Even King Realm Cultivators were just ordinary Cultivators. Only Venerable Realm experts had a certain status, and only Saint Realm powerhouses could be considered true experts!

Upon hearing Lin Yan's words, the slight warmth on the Cultivator's face instantly disappeared, and he said coldly, “The Lin Family's Heavenly Saint City? No!”

However, having accepted Lin Yan's Spirit Stones, the Cultivator still pointed Lin Yan in a direction: “Go to Flowing Cloud Saint City, eight thousand li east from here. There is a teleportation array to Heavenly Saint City there.”

“Alright, hurry up and get lost!”

Lin Yan could only leave this place, feeling puzzled.

Actually, what Lin Yan didn't know was that the owner of Purple Extreme Saint City, the Purple Extreme Saint Sect, had their contemporary Saint Master suppressed by Lin Tianhai a total of 8 times. Each time was a crushing defeat, and in the end, he was even dubbed the “Eight-Time Defeated Friend” by busybodies. The Purple Extreme Saint Sect also had some unpleasantness with the Lin Family because of this, and eventually, the two sides severed communication.

This was the fundamental reason why the guarding Cultivator suddenly became like that.

After leaving Purple Extreme Saint City, Lin Yan began to head towards Flowing Cloud Saint City according to the map he had just bought.

...

A hundred li away from Flowing Cloud Saint City.

At this moment, after traveling for most of the day, Lin Yan finally arrived a hundred li away from Flowing Cloud Saint City.

And just as he was about to continue forward, the battle ahead forced him to stop.

“This is… a rogue Cultivator?”

Lin Yan muttered, looking ahead.

He saw several figures in black robes surrounding and attacking a brocade-robed young man about his age and a purple sable.

The black-robed figures were all Cave Heaven Realm Cultivators, one of whom had even reached the ninth heaven of the Cave Heaven Realm, and the others were at least at the fifth heaven of the Cave Heaven Realm; in contrast, the young man and the sable were about the same age as him, both at the second heaven of the Cave Heaven Realm. The purple sable's Realm was slightly higher, but it was only at the fourth heaven of the Cave Heaven Realm.

But even with such a disadvantage in cultivation and numbers, the young man and the purple sable did not fall into the slightest disadvantage.

Instead, the black-robed figures looked somewhat miserable…

“So strong… This is a true Prodigy!”

Lin Yan stared at the young man's powerful fighting stance, and a strong will to battle involuntarily emerged in his eyes!

And whether by coincidence or something else, the young man who was currently in battle seemed to sense something and subconsciously looked back.

Their gazes suddenly met.

The young man instantly noticed the Battle Intent in Lin Yan's eyes.

“This person is not simple…”

This thought immediately arose in the young man's mind.

Perhaps this was the wonderful connection between prodigies…

However, he was currently in a fierce battle, so the young man quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to focus on the fight.

After watching for a while, Lin Yan chose to go around and leave. If he stayed there, it would make the other party feel that he had impure motives.

Although he wanted to get to know, communicate, and spar with the other party due to the attraction between prodigies, the timing was clearly not suitable now.

So he chose to leave. After all, he still had to rush to participate in the grand competition, and he believed that with that person's talent, they would eventually meet again one day, so there was no need to rush at this moment.

After Lin Yan left, the battle here ended not long after.

“Lin Dong, what was wrong with you just now, you actually got distracted?”

“If your Sable Lord hadn't helped you block an attack, would you still be jumping around like this? So how are you planning to thank your Sable Lord?”

He saw the purple sable floating in front of Lin Dong, arms crossed, looking at Lin Dong with a proud expression and speaking.

Hearing this, Lin Dong also thought of the young man with the black ruler on his back that he had just seen, and the corner of his mouth curved slightly: “Nothing, I just saw an extraordinary existence…”

“As for just now, thank you, Little Sable, for your help! This is a high-grade fifth-level spiritual medicine, it's for you.”

After speaking, Lin Dong took out a high-grade fifth-level spiritual medicine and handed it to the purple sable.

Seeing this, the purple sable directly stuffed the spiritual medicine into its mouth and swallowed it, a look of satisfaction on its face, but it still said proudly, “Alright, although it's just trash spiritual medicine like a high-grade fifth-level one, seeing as it's your kid's intention, your Sable Lord will reluctantly accept it.”

“You should know that this kind of trash spiritual medicine is no different from roadside weeds in my Heavenly Demon Sable tribe. Your Sable Lord usually doesn't even bother to look at it…”

Seeing that the sable was bragging again, Lin Dong quickly interrupted its performance: “Got it, got it, let's go quickly, otherwise we'll miss the grand competition.”

With that, Lin Dong directly grabbed the purple sable by the neck and flew away from the area.

“How dare you, Lin Dong, quickly let go of your Sable Lord!”

“Your Sable Lord is a noble Heavenly Demon Sable, how dare you grab me by the neck…”