Su Chen didn't have any objections. After all, Lian Fan had the highest level of cultivation and was a stable person. He was a good candidate for the team leader.

And at this moment, a sudden commotion was heard at the entrance of the main hall.

"Eh? Senior Brother Xia?"

"Xia Hao? Are you back?"

Following the exclamations one after another, a figure quickly walked in from outside the hall.

This is a thin young man. What is quite eye-catching is his hair. The black hair is mixed with strands of white hair, which makes the whole person's temperament look...

Especially special.

In addition, the young man's temperament was somewhat gloomy. What surprised Su Chen the most was that the aura exuding from this young man was no less than that of Lian Fan!

Lian Fan is already the chief disciple of the Hunyuan Ling Sect, so where did this young man come from?

"Xia Hao!"

Among the people, the expression of the sect leader Mieyunzi fluctuated the most. He called out the young man's name, and then his lips trembled slightly and he was speechless.

Deputy Sect Master Zhao was relatively calm. He took a few steps forward and greeted, "Xia Hao, your cultivation has improved again. You are worthy of being the direct disciple of the Sect Master. Your talent is high."

After the words fell, the young man named Xia Hao was seen motionless and showed no intention of responding, which made Deputy Sect Master Zhao feel embarrassed.

"Uh... Xia Hao, it's good that you come back. After so many years of wandering outside, it's time to come back. Whatever happens, your master and us, we should discuss it together and bear it together.

"

Qin Taishang also opened his mouth to smooth things over.

However, the young man remained silent and just stared at Mie Yunzi.

And Mie Yunzi was also looking at him, with a look of pity, annoyance, and a bit of escape... This atmosphere did not look like an ordinary atmosphere between master and disciple.

After a while, the young man spoke up and said coldly to Mie Yunzi: "Master, are you not planning to go to this Burning Territory Scorched Earth Battle?"

"Um?"

Mieyunzi was looking at the other party, as if in a trance. Hearing the other party's words, he seemed to have come back to his senses, but he didn't realize what the other party had just asked. He just subconsciously

responded.

And his vague response was obviously interpreted by the young man as a prevarication. The young man's momentum turned cold again, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm really disappointed! Is that possible?"

Given the hatred back then, all the teachers and commanders are planning to bring him down just like that?"

"no!"

Only then did Mie Yunzi react and hurriedly said, "Xia Hao, my master is planning to tell you that we plan to go to the Burning Territory Scorched Earth Battle this time."

"Are you planning to go?"

The young man repeated it in disbelief, and then sneered, "This is not like your style, Master!"

Su Chen on the side frowned slightly. From the perspective of an outsider like him, the atmosphere between this young man and Mie Yunzi was not at all like that of an ordinary master and apprentice. He didn't know what was going on.

What's the inside story?

"Brother Lin, this person is definitely a direct disciple of the sect leader? Why is he acting like an enemy?"

Su Chen sent a message to Lin He and asked.

"He is indeed the sect master's direct disciple and one of the top geniuses in the sect."

Lin He's face was complicated, and he replied via voice transmission, "He was not like this before, but what happened back then is difficult to describe in one sentence... speaking of it, it was also the battle with Burning Territory Scorched Earth.

Relatedly, the reason why Xia Hao left the clan and never came back these years is also because of these things."

As Lin He explained, Su Chen gradually understood the whole story.

It turns out that Mieyunzi has three direct disciples, not just Lian Fan as Su Chen thought before.

One of the two remaining direct disciples is Xia Hao, and the other is Xia Hao's brother, Xia Yang.

This Xia Yang was the leader who led the Hunyuan Lingzong team to the scorched earth of Burning Territory thirty years ago! At that time, Xia Yang was only in his twenties and was the most dazzling martial artist of the Hunyuan Lingzong.

Genius, outstanding talent, high-spirited.

But the ending, Su Chen already knew, was that Xia Yang and most of the other disciples perished in the scorched earth of Burning Territory, with no bones left.

When the news first came back, Xia Hao, who was only ten years old at the time, wanted revenge like crazy. However, Mie Yunzi and other senior officials of the sect were motivated by the overall interests of the sect.

After thinking about it, I decided to swallow my anger and not pursue the matter.

From that time on, Xia Hao became taciturn, but he practiced harder and harder. At just ten years old, he had the potential to surpass Xia Yang.

A few years passed in silence like this. One day, Mieyunzi discovered that he had not shown up for a long time. He went to his cave and found that he had left a letter and ran away. The letter said,

Since the sect cannot avenge his brother, then he will go out on his own to practice and get revenge by his own ability!

It has been more than ten years since he left. Today is the first time he has returned to the sect since he left. No wonder Mie Yunzi lost his composure just now.

"Sigh... Actually, Xia Hao's hair didn't look like this before. I don't know what he has experienced outside these years. He has so much gray hair at such a young age?"

Lin He sighed, knowing that behind these white hairs there must be unimaginable bitterness and danger.

"It is said that in recent years, Amaterasu Rei Sect disciples have often been killed while training outside. The murderer has never been found. However, some signs at the scene seem to indicate that it was Xia Hao.

.”

Lin He added.

Su Chen actually admired Xia Hao a little. Apart from anything else, just saying that this determination for revenge was difficult for ordinary people to have, let alone that he should have suffered for it.

A lot of suffering.

However, what Su Chen didn't know was that while he and Lin He were chatting about Xia Hao via voice transmission, Xia Hao was also sizing them up.

Of course, Xia Hao was mainly looking at Lin He. After all, Lin He was a talented disciple of the same age as him in the sect, and they had known each other since childhood. Now that they have not seen each other for more than ten years, since

I just want to see how the other person is doing.

Xia Hao also heard about the incident where a new disciple named Su Chen who joined the sect shone brightly at the Lingzong Conference and embarrassed Shen Dongyang in public. To be honest,

Hearing the news, he felt very excited, and this was even one of the reasons why he suddenly decided to return to the sect.

However, he didn't know what Su Chen looked like, so although he saw Su Chen sitting next to Lin He, he didn't pay much attention.

After all, a disciple who is at the beginning of the Divine Transformation Realm is not bad among the disciples of the Hunyuan Ling Sect, but he certainly cannot compare with the top geniuses like them.

On.

And Xia Hao didn't know that Su Chen was a dual practitioner of Dan and Wu, so he completely regarded Su Chen next to Lin He as an ordinary martial arts disciple and didn't pay any attention to the rumored Su Chen.

think..
Chapter completed!