Chapter 479

"This junior has met Senior Jiang."

When Yin Yue questioned him with a vigilant look, Lin Chen also spoke up to salute Jiang Taiyi.

"Little girl, there is no need to be so defensive. The reason I know this is because I had dealings with one of your royal clansmen many years ago."

Jiang Taiyi smiled slightly and looked at Yin Yue: "What is your relationship with Yin Meng?"

Yin Yue's expression turned solemn: "That is my grandfather. My grandfather passed away seventy years ago."

"Passed away?"

Jiang Taiyi was startled, a trace of nostalgia in the depths of his eyes, but he immediately returned to clarity: "It is normal for him to leave at his age. How is your father, Yin Hao?"

"My father was killed by a traitor in the clan."

Yin Yue also realized that the mysterious Myriad Phenomena Realm expert from Canglan Island before her had an extremely good relationship with her grandfather, and the matter of the royal clan's Moon Bone must have been told to her by her grandfather.

And to be able to let her grandfather tell her about the Moon Bone in the clan, it was definitely not an ordinary relationship.

"Killed by a traitor?"

This time, Jiang Taiyi was silent for a full moment: "I once met your father. At that time, your father was about the same age as you. Forget it... these are all things of the past, so let's not mention them."

Lin Chen, who was listening to the conversation between the two, was also thinking rapidly. It was obvious that Senior Jiang and Yin Yue's grandfather had an extraordinary relationship. Logically speaking, upon hearing that his friend's son had been killed, Senior Jiang should be angry and might even help Yin Yue take revenge, but Senior Jiang suddenly stopped talking about this matter, which left him somewhat puzzled.

"Outsiders must not interfere in the internal affairs of the ancient remnant clans. This is a rule set by all ancient remnant clans together."

Jiang Taiyi's gaze turned to Lin Chen, seemingly having seen through Lin Chen's confusion, and he explained.

"This junior understands."

Lin Chen suddenly realized. No wonder Senior Jiang did not continue the conversation, and Yin Yue did not ask Senior Jiang to help her take revenge.

"I told you back then to stay on Canglan Island for a few more days, and there would be a fortuitous encounter for you. Do you know what this fortuitous encounter is?"

Hearing this, Lin Chen did not hide his thoughts and guessed: "Is it related to the Western Abyss?"

"Not bad, that fortuitous encounter is beneath the abyss." Jiang Taiyi nodded: "Follow me first."

Under Jiang Taiyi's lead, the three of them arrived before the abyss in less than an hour. When he saw the abyss before him, even though he had already stepped into the Innate Realm, Lin Chen felt a palpitation at this moment.

To call it an abyss is actually not quite appropriate.

A hundred zhang ahead, rolling black mist surged continuously, level with the yellow sand ground, but the strange thing was that looking through this black mist, one could not see the end at all. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that this is a sea of mist, and the yellow sand a hundred zhang away is the dividing line of the sea of mist.

"Senior Jiang, is this a secret realm?"

Lin Chen frowned. After Canglan Island was discovered, the entire island was completely exposed, and the western edge of Great Liang was already the westernmost part of Canglan Island. The boundless black mist could not have gone unnoticed by those martial artists who came to the island, because the west was precisely the direction passed through when landing on the island.

And when he returned on the Dragon King ship, he had looked at the west side of Canglan Island. From the sea, the west side of Canglan Island looked like a normal coastline, followed by mountain peaks, with no abnormalities visible at all.

However, looking at the range of the black mist before him, it was impossible for it not to be discovered by people outside the island, unless there were mountain peaks appearing behind the boundless black mist that blocked it. But Canglan Island was only so big, and Lin Chen could be certain that he had already walked to the westernmost end of Canglan Island.

If so, there was only one reason that could explain it: this place should be a secret realm.

In the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao, he had already seen many secret realms, and he had even seen them on Canglan Island—the Canglan Mansion of that Senior Yuanjiu, and the sect ruins of that last sect master of the Qingtian Sect.

And those were just the means of Innate experts. The fact that this abyss before him could attract the attention of a Myriad Phenomena Realm expert like Senior Jiang meant the possibility of it being a secret realm was very high, and it was even possible that it was the handiwork of this Lord Jiang.

"You guessed correctly. This place is indeed a secret realm, and it was set up by me, just so that some people without discernment wouldn't come here to die."

Hearing this, Lin Chen thought of the two Innate experts the Marquis of Dingxi said had disappeared. Martial artists below the Innate Realm could not cross the boundary guarded by the Dingxi Army, and those who could be called "without discernment" by Senior Jiang were at least Innate martial artists; Senior Jiang probably wouldn't care about those below the Innate Realm at all.

"Even the secret realm set up by Senior cannot stop the emergence of this black mist."

Yin Yue, who had been silent ever since she heard that Jiang Taiyi knew her grandfather, suddenly spoke. These words also startled Lin Chen, and he cast a grateful look at Yin Yue. Yin Yue was reminding him.

Before them, it might not necessarily be a great fortuitous encounter; it could also be a great danger.

A Myriad Phenomena Realm expert is already a top-tier existence throughout the entire Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao. Since this Senior Jiang had set up a secret realm here and did not want it to be discovered, there was no reason for him to let this black mist surge out, to the point where even Great Liang had to send troops to garrison it.

Even if the Innate experts coming to the island could not discover this place, as long as they stayed on the island for a period of time and inquired a little about some of the more special places on the island, they would know about the Western Abyss.