Secular Immortal of the Nine Realms Chapter 178: In Chillwater

Days later, Zhao Yan didn’t stay in the Fang Manor but instead followed Fang Chen and Xu Ge to the capital, where they met up with Li Daoye, Xia Yun, Liu Suifeng, and Tantai Qingxuan.

“You… are going to bring those two with you?” Li Daoye frowned as he gestured at Xu Ge and Zhao Yan.

Xia Yun and his two juniors disapproved too. Their journey was going to be fraught with danger, after all. Martial artists wouldn’t be of help to them; if anything, they would only drag them down.

“They are only going to Chillwater,” Fang Chen said.

“Ah!” Li Daoye exclaimed.

Xia Yun appeared to grasp something from it too. He hesitantly said, “Daoist Fang, Chillwater’s strongest martial artist is at pinnacle Earth Profound realm…”

He was implying that Xu Ge and Zhao Yan wouldn’t be able to achieve much in Chillwater.

“Xu Ge is at Ki Control, though he should be advancing to Ki Manifestation soon. This journey will be good training for him. As for Zhao Yan…” Fang Chen smiled. “You don’t have to worry about him. He’s a pinnacle Earth Profound realm martial artist.”

“Pinnacle Earth Profound realm?” Xia Yun was taken aback.

Pinnacle Earth Profound realm martial artists were comparable to eighth stage Ki Refinement cultivators. Martial artists only appeared weak in comparison due to inner ki being weaker than spirit ki, but otherwise, it was quite a formidable level.

They instinctively thought that Zhao Yan was from another grade-8 state, but they couldn’t help but wonder where Fang Chen found such a helper from.

“Interesting. I have never clashed with a pinnacle Earth Profound realm martial artist before,” Li Daoye chuckled.

Bam!

Zhao Yan merely raised his hand, and Li Daoye was immediately crushed to the floor by a boundless wave of inner ki. If not for his spirit ki, his body might have been crushed into bits.

Xu Ge gloated over his embarrassment. “That’s for acting smug. You should know that Brother Zhao is our Great Xia’s number two martial arts expert! No one else in Great Xia, other than our young master, can compete wi

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