Chapter 626: The Purpose of the Birthday Banquet

"So this is the Yan Family's grand estate; it truly is a place of excellent feng shui."

A Ferrari pulled to a stop in front of a massive manor, and Chen Jing stepped out of the car, looking at the enormous estate as she spoke.

"This manor is indeed not simple. It is situated on a spiritual energy node of the entire Rong City, and with a powerful formation master using the buildings as the foundation, a large-scale Spirit Gathering Formation has been constructed. Anyone within this manor can benefit immensely." Lingyun swept a brief glance over the manor before him and had already discerned the mysteries of the estate.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please present your invitations."

An attendant walked up and bowed slightly toward them.

Lingyun raised his hand, and five invitations appeared neatly in his grasp.

Seeing the invitations in Lingyun's hand, the attendant's expression turned solemn. The invitations in Lingyun's hand were the Yan Family's highest-specification gold-inlaid invitations; those who could receive such invitations must certainly have extraordinary status. Coupled with the expensive-looking clothes worn by Lingyun and his companions, it was clear these people had significant backgrounds.

"Everyone, please."

The attendant dared not be negligent and led Lingyun and the others toward the interior of the manor.

"Hey, did you see that just now? The invitation in that man's hand was a gold-inlaid one." Behind Lingyun, a girl nudged the man beside her slightly.

"That's right, it really was a gold-inlaid invitation, and there wasn't just one; all five of them had one each." The man beside her also wore an expression of surprise. "This is too exaggerated. Could they be from that top-tier batch of second-generation heirs in Beijing?"

"No, they are not." A leisurely voice came from behind him. "But their weight is far heavier than those second-generation heirs!"

The man turned his head and could not help but show a look of respect on his face. Behind him was a man with his arm around Shui Yunyue.

"Brother Long." The man hurriedly pulled his female companion and bowed his head slightly toward him.

The man before him was named Long Qingyu, the nephew of Long Jingtian and a figure standing at the peak of Beijing's second-generation heirs. Young as he was, he not only controlled several large-scale conglomerates, but his cultivation had also stepped into the Golden Core Mid-stage; he could be called a textbook protagonist.

"Brother Long, do you know who they are?" the man asked with some curiosity.

"That man is named Lingyun, the person my uncle personally called the strongest of the younger generation. As for those four women, two are the final champions of the Hidden Dragon Assembly, and two are the final champions of the Peak Martial Duel," Long Qingtian said indifferently.

"Cough, cough, Brother Long, you aren't lying to me, are you? Those four women look so young; how could they be so strong?" The man could not help but open his mouth wide.

"Although I dare not believe it either, this is the truth, witnessed personally by Junior Sister Yun Yue and Aunt Meng," Long Qingtian said. "Think about it, between them and us second-generation heirs, whose weight is heavier?"

"Th-they are certainly heavier," the man said somewhat sheepishly.

"Therefore, never go and provoke them casually. If you run into their hands, even my uncle might not be able to save you," Long Qingtian warned.

"Understood, Brother Long." The man nodded repeatedly.

"Lingyun, you say, what is the Yan Family patriarch trying to do by holding this birthday banquet with such fanfare and inviting so many people?" After stepping into the manor, Chen Jing asked Lingyun with some curiosity.

"I didn't quite understand before, but now I know. This Yan Family patriarch is no pushover either," Lingyun said.

"You mean? Hmm, this aura? So that's it; this is the scheme he's playing," Luo Yexi suddenly raised an eyebrow and spoke.

"Aura? What aura?" Chen Jing asked curiously.

"Hmm, so that's how it is. He really went to great pains!" Busujima Saeko also seemed to have sensed something, then turned to Chen Jing and the other who looked bewildered. "Use your Divine Sense to feel it carefully."

"Mm." Chen Jing nodded, and her Divine Sense extended outward toward the surroundings like a spider web.

Suddenly, Chen Jing's brow furrowed slightly. In her Divine Sense perception, an extremely powerful energy body appeared. She had not even seen an energy body of this intensity on the island during the Dark World Exchange Conference.

"This is... a Nascent Soul expert? Oh no, I've been discovered!"

Chen Jing felt a sudden shock in her heart. When she probed that Nascent Soul expert, her emotional fluctuation was detected by the other party, and now the other party was probing her location.

Just at this moment, a much more powerful Divine Sense descended abruptly, easily masking her Divine Sense fluctuations while simultaneously wiping away all traces.

Chen Jing turned her head and found Lingyun looking at her with a smile. A blush rose on Chen Jing's face, and she quietly retracted her Divine Sense.

In a luxurious room within the Yan Family manor, an old man in a Tang suit suddenly opened his eyes. The moment he opened them, wisps of electric light leaked from his eyes, actually causing the space in front of him to distort.

Suddenly, the old man's brow furrowed. In that very instant, he seemed to sense someone spying on him in the dark.

"Who is it? Such audacity!"

The old man let out a cold snort, and the Divine Sense derived after stepping into the Nascent Soul Realm swept out instantly, wanting to capture the location of the person spying in the dark. However, no matter how his Divine Sense searched, he could not find the location of the person who had just spied on him.

"Hmm, how can this be? Could it be that my perception was wrong?" The old man stroked his beard, his brow furrowed.

His Divine Sense was something that had automatically derived after he ascended to become a Nascent Soul expert; he was still not very clear on how to use this power. As for the feeling of being spied on just now, he directly attributed it to an accident caused by his incomplete mastery of his Divine Sense.

"Father, the people outside have mostly arrived." Just at this moment, a middle-aged man pushed the door open and walked in.

"I know." The old man stood up, shook his Tang suit, and strode out of the room.

"To think that the Yan Family patriarch has quietly become a Nascent Soul expert; truly, one cannot judge a book by its cover. Could it be that at this birthday banquet, the Yan Family patriarch intends to announce his strength high-profile?" Su Wanyue also retracted her Divine Sense.

"It's possible. With such a Pseudo-Nascent Soul expert suppressing things, the Yan Family can at least rest easy for a period of time in the future," Lingyun nodded.

"Pseudo-Nascent Soul?" Chen Jing's brow furrowed.

"When he broke through to Nascent Soul, he did not experience the Heavenly Tribulation, which is why it was silent. Ascending to Nascent Soul without crossing the Heavenly Tribulation is safer, but the Nascent Soul that is formed has not been tempered by Thunder Power, so its strength is naturally much weaker compared to a Nascent Soul that has experienced the Heavenly Tribulation. Without special opportunities, his future achievements will not be very high," Lingyun explained. "But regardless, he has now stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm, even if it is a Pseudo-Nascent Soul! Even a Pseudo-Nascent Soul, under normal circumstances, can still manage to suppress fewer than five Half-step Nascent Soul experts."

"So that's how it is?" Chen Jing nodded.

Just at this moment, a burst of commotion came, and the protagonist of this birthday banquet, the Yan Family's patriarch Yan Zhenguo, finally appeared on the scene.