Chapter 2522 Hostility out of Nowhere

As Lin Xun was marveling, a kind, otherworldly-looking old man approached him and said with a look of appreciation, “Little friend, you have a high forehead, a very special physique, and from your noble appearance, your constellation is the Ziwei enclosure, which less than one in ten thousand cultivators have. If you would like to, this old man can guide you to the way of immortality.”

The speech was a classic one of charlatans, but the old man said it with sincerity and cherishment.

Lin Xun was stunned, “Alright.”

The old man laughed happily, “Very decisive of you. In the quest for the great dao, it is precisely an opportunity like this that you fight for and seize. Congratulations, today you have hit a great fortune. By the way, little friend, what is your name?”

Lin Xun said, “Lin Xun.”

“Great name! Uh...wait, you said your name is Lin Xun?” The old man was just about to throw praises when the realization jolted him. His eyes went wide, his body stiffened, and the muscles on his face twitched intensely.

He took a deep breath and asked, “Then...where are you from?”

Lin Xun answered with a smile, “The Ancient Nebula Road.”

The old man looked like he was being struck by lightning. After standing there with his mouth agape for a long time, he laughed dryly, “Ahhh, I suddenly remember that I still have something to attend to. Excuse me.”

Whoosh!

He vanished.

Lin Xun sneered. It was apparent at a glance that the old fogey was a seasoned fraud in this city. He only dared to exercise his skill without scruples thanks to the rule that forbade violence. Otherwise, he would have been slapped to death many times over.

Walking the streets, Lin Xun came across many similar sights. Newly arrived cultivators were quickly surrounded by experts from Immortal Imperial Clans, who enthusiastically extended invitations to them in an attempt to solicit talent.

However, very few came up to Lin Xun. Most even avoided him like a plague even when they recognized his identity.

Only when he left the area did they point at his back and discuss him in whispers.

Lin Xun didn't care. Before coming to Chaotian City, he had learned some things about it. He knew full well that even those who hated him to the bone wouldn't dare to make a move against him here.

After wandering around for a while and familiarizing himself with the scenery, he delayed no more and walked straight into a merchant house.

Fifteen minutes later, he walked out after the majority of the loot collected on his journey had been turned into cosmic origin crystals. This was a habit he had developed over the years. Whenever he entered a city, he would peddle away the useless items for cosmic origin crystals.

If he came across treasures that were useful to him, then he would also buy them without any hesitation.

After eighteen years since leaving Taiyi City, the number of first-grade cosmic origin crystals in his possession had reached a staggering 1.3 billion! As for other divine materials, pills, and treasures, they piled up into a mountain and could no longer be counted.

According to the green sparrow's jealousy-filled statement, Lin Xun’s current wealth could even put quite a few immortal figures to shame!

After the selling, Lin Xun began to browse through different merchant houses in the city and bought all the usable treasures that he saw. In just half a day, he had spent over fifty million cosmic origin crystals, leading many shopkeepers to regard him as a VIP and treat him with fervent enthusiasm.

When Lin Xun was planning to look for the Battle Stele of the Domains of Chaotian City, a gray-clothed man mysteriously approached him and whispered, “Fellow Daoist, do you need a list?”

Lin Xun asked, “What list?”

The gray-clothed man smiled cutely, “The Battlefield of the Gods will open soon, don't you want to know how many experts are going there? I have a detailed list of them here. It will allow you to know your opponents and win every battle.”

“I see.” Lin Xun decided to spend one thousand first-grade cosmic origin crystals on the list.

Casually flipping through it, he was startled to find that experts from the Eternal True Realm accounted for seventy percent of it!

There were around five thousand of them!

However, though the number looked big at first, it wasn't difficult to see upon closer inspection that most of them came from different Immortal Imperial Clans and were traveling in groups.

Unfortunately, this was only a list of names and identities. It was so undetailed that it didn’t have much value at all.

Still, Lin Xun did see quite a few familiar names. For example, Feng Junlin from whom he had taken the Four Symbols Dao Diagram from, or Xiang Xiaoyuan and Yue Duqiu, etc.

For the majority of these, however, he had only heard about their names and had never crossed paths with them.

The Great Thousand Battle Domain was too big. Furthermore, Lin Xun had been traveling alone all these years. As a result, he rarely had the opportunity to get to know outstanding characters who, like him, had gone through countless perils and finally reached Chaotian City.

Like Cang Fusheng and Blade Bearer, who ranked second and third on the wanted list, he only knew their names and not their characters.

Putting away the list, Lin Xun quickly arrived at the place where the Battle Stele of the Domains was located.

In the entire Great Thousand Battle Domain, there were a total of nine Battle Steles of the Domains placed in different Immortal Heavenly Passes.

The Battle Stele of the Domains in Chaotian City was the final one.

For countless millennia, every powerful expert who went through this city on their way to the Eternal True Realm would head to the Battle Stele of the Domains for a final test.

Many of them wanted to make a final attempt to put their name on the rankings.

Meanwhile, those who were already on the rankings wanted to see their ultimate position in the Great Thousand Battle Domain.

The Battle Stele of the Domains stood towering as it glowed with arcane power fluctuations.

When Lin Xun arrived, many figures had already gathered in the area, their auras all extremely strong. Some of them were even at the terrifying level of Emperor Ancestor.

Despite having seen his fair share of grand scenes, Lin Xun couldn't help but feel touched. It had been a difficult and perilous journey, and those who were able to be here at the moment were undoubtedly the top elites on the Emperor path!

Buzz!

Before the stele, the figure who was taking the test triggered an intense phenomenon. A magnificent rain of light drifted from the stele and enveloped that person.

“Amazing phenomenon!”

“This was the first time Cang Fusheng has taken the test in eight thousand years, yet he’s already creating this kind of commotion. He’s leaving his name on the Mythic Ranking!”

“From the scale of this phenomenon, he should be in the top three hundred.”

“Formidable!”

A series of murmurs rang out in the area as everyone revealed different expressions. Soon, the fluctuations on the Battle Stele of the Domains faded into silence. Cang Fusheng turned and left the scene.

It was also at this moment that Lin Xun got a good look at the other party, and he couldn't help but nod inwardly. This person seemed aloof and arrogant, but his powerful aura that far exceeded the ordinary justified it.

“Little friend, I would like to invite you to be a guest elder of the Nan Clan. Should you agree, we promise to provide you with the cultivation resources needed to certify as a supreme Emperor Ancestor,” rang an old, hoarse voice.

It came from a white-haired old man. Seeing how many people he was surrounded with, it was clear that his identity was extraordinary.

The field was in an uproar.

The Nan Clan!

This was a behemoth in the Seventh Heaven Domain. Normal Immortal Imperial Clans could not even think to compare to it!

The way the crowd looked at the white-haired old man instantly gained a touch of awe. At this moment, Cang Fusheng had undoubtedly become the object of envy for many people in the area.

However, the main character himself appeared surprised, “This senior, I’m a wanted man with fatal burdens. Aren’t you concerned that my troubles will affect your clan?”

The white-haired elder smiled faintly, “Your troubles are merely trivial matters to the Nan Clan.”

Cang Fusheng was silent for a moment before he said, “Let's discuss this again after I return from the Battlefield of the Gods.”

With that, he turned to leave.

The elder stroked his beard with a smile, “Good, I'll wait for good news from you.”

“Oh?!” Cang Fusheng suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked at Lin Xun, Then, his lips slightly curled up, “I didn't expect to see you here. Although we’ve never met, I've known you for a long time. I look forward to the Ruins of the Gods even more now.”

From how Cang Fusheng had taken the initiative to say these words as a complete stranger, he obviously had long regarded Lin Xun as a very important figure.

The crowd around the Battle Stele of the Domains followed Cang Fusheng’s gaze and saw Lin Xun, which immediately led to a commotion.

“It's him!”

“To think that he actually has the guts to show up here. I finally get to see him in the flesh.”

The atmosphere in the area suddenly changed, making Lin Xun the center of attention.

At the same time, he sensed quite a few stares of undisguised hatred landing on him. However, when he looked over, he found that the owners of those stares were all unfamiliar faces. He didn’t pay this any mind.

Enmity and hatred were always complicated and confounding matters. He simply couldn’t be bothered to pursue why these people loathed him.

In any case, he would just take appropriate measures to deal with them if the situation called for it.

There was no shortage of examples like these among the opponents he had killed during these years.

“Hmph! His guts are big indeed!” snorted the white-haired old man from the Nan Clan. He did not hide his hostility toward Lin Xun at all.

This actually had Lin Xun puzzled, “Old man, I searched my entire memory and found nothing about starting a feud with anyone from your Nan Clan, so what did you mean by that?”

The field sank into silence while the atmosphere became tense.

Everyone smacked their lips. It was completely out of their expectation that Lin Xun would be so uncourteous toward the white-haired old man.

The old man's face dropped, “Small thing, you might just know the answer when you die!”

Lin Xun raised a brow and burst out laughing, “So, attacking with your mouth is all you can do, old mongrel. Forget it then, I'm not wasting my time on you.”

Saying that, he walked straight to the Battle Stele of the Domains. No one was in the mood to take the test, allowing him to conveniently beat them to it despite having come later.

Meanwhile, being called an old mongrel caused the white-haired old man's face to darken. His attendants were even more furious, starting to curse at Lin Xun one after another, but their voices fell on deaf ears.

Since violence was forbidden in Chaotian City, the other party didn’t dare to attack Lin Xun and could only threaten him with words, which posed no threat to him whatsoever.

Seeing this scene, the audience stared at one another.

This Lin Xun was just as rampant as the rumors say. He didn’t even take the Seventh Heaven Domain's Nan Clan seriously at all!