Chapter 497: Brother Fang, what is your true background?

Lotus Island.

Its area is about the same as Canglan Island. Because the central area of the island rises sharply and stretches into a domain, similar to a lotus platform, it was named Lotus Island.

And where that lotus platform is located, a huge city was built: Lotus City.

Lotus City, Chen Prefecture.

Hearing Yin Yue, who had been locked in the woodshed for ten days, was brought out.

Even after being locked in the woodshed for more than ten days, Hearing Yin Yue had no major changes other than a paler complexion, nor did she show the fear and panic of an ordinary child.

"Master's reminder was correct; I was almost fooled by this little girl."

Chen Shan looked at Hearing Yin Yue, who had been brought out. Regarding this little girl, after he sent his subordinates to capture her, he hadn't cared at all and had simply let his subordinates lock her in the woodshed.

Now it seemed he had been negligent.

An ordinary little girl, even if she had Innate Realm elders in her family, would find it difficult to maintain a calm mood when facing such an encounter.

"What is your relationship with that Fang Zhan? Where do you come from? Tell me everything, one by one."

Chen Shan spoke in a deep voice. Under his master's instructions, he had gone to investigate Fang Zhan's background, but the result was that he could never find any clues.

Even if he came from the Outer Domain, he would have left traces along the way. Besides that, he also investigated that the reason Fang Zhan had disappeared for so many days was because he had gone to sea with Lu Feng.

Hearing Yin Yue remained silent.

"It seems to be a tough bone to chew."

Seeing Hearing Yin Yue silent, Chen Shan gave a light snort. Since he couldn't investigate Fang Zhan's background here, he could only start with this little girl.

As for whether he would be ridiculed for targeting a little girl with the posture of a dignified Innate powerhouse, Chen Shan didn't care.

As long as he didn't say anything, the news wouldn't spread outside.

"Little girl, I'll give you one last chance, otherwise don't blame me for using methods on you."

Chen Shan began to release the pressure of an Innate powerhouse. In his view, a little girl, facing his pressure, would inevitably be panicked and might even kneel down out of fear.

But to his surprise, although the little girl before him became even paler under his pressure, there was no sign of panic on her face.

"Eh!"

This discovery surprised Chen Shan. In the Martial Way world, the weak are prey to the strong. Martial artists below the Innate Realm are like ants in the eyes of Innate martial artists, precisely because of the gap between the two sides.

Let alone a little girl, even a martial artist with a firm will at the First Rank would be unable to withstand his pressure and would end up trembling and kneeling on the ground.

This is an instinctive reaction of the spirit and body, not something that can be controlled by the body.

Chen Shan began to seriously size up Hearing Yin Yue for the first time, even using his spiritual sense. When his spiritual sense swept over Hearing Yin Yue's body, Chen Shan's pupils shrank.

His spiritual sense actually couldn't perceive the existence of the little girl!

This meant that if he weren't standing here seeing the little girl in person, but were outside the courtyard sweeping the courtyard with his spiritual sense, he wouldn't be able to discover that there was still a little girl in the courtyard at all.

Being able to make an Innate martial artist's spiritual sense unable to discover her meant either she had a treasure on her body that could shield spiritual sense, or... she practiced a concealment technique, and it was a high-tier concealment technique at that.

Regardless of which possibility it was, at this moment, it made Chen Shan incomparably tempted.

"Slap her face for me!"

Chen Shan gave the order, and the two subordinates beside him immediately responded respectfully and walked toward Hearing Yin Yue.

Seeing the two people walking toward her, Hearing Yin Yue remained silent. She could tell Lin Chen's true identity, and this Chen Shan would definitely not dare to lay a hand on her again.

But she knew even better that once Lin Chen's identity was leaked, this matter couldn't be hidden, unless Lin Chen could kill everyone who knew, but this was obviously impossible.

When they were hunted down, Lin Chen obviously didn't intend to intervene and didn't reveal his true strength. But once those assassins revealed their identities and declared they were from the Yama Palace, Lin Chen changed his previous approach of hiding his strength and slaughtered those Yama Palace assassins without mercy.

The traitors in the clan could certainly deduce that Lin Chen had a grudge against the Yama Palace.

As an assassin organization, the Yama Palace didn't know how many martial artists they had assassinated, and their enemies were all over the world. It was impossible to deduce Lin Chen's identity just from the Yama Palace's enemies.

But when multiple pieces of information were gathered, it was different.

Having a grudge against the Yama Palace, being strong enough, being about to head to the East Sea Domain, plus the little girl appearing beside him...

With these pieces of information gathered together, the traitors in the clan would certainly associate the little girl beside Lin Chen with herself.

The one-year deadline was not far off; she couldn't expose herself at this time.

As for this Chen Shan, his goal was the Quenching Crystal Sand on Lin Chen. As long as Lin Chen hadn't appeared yet, he wouldn't really do anything to her, just some physical suffering.

She could also fabricate lies to deal with this Chen Shan and stall for time until Lin Chen came to the rescue, but she disdained to do so.

As a princess of the Moon Soul Clan, she still disdained to deal with a Second Stage Innate martial artist.

"Little girl, you are really asking for trouble."

One of the martial artists who walked close to Hearing Yin Yue sneered and raised his hand, about to slap her. However, Hearing Yin Yue didn't even close her eyes.

The palm wind struck, and to Hearing Yin Yue's surprise, the expected pain did not arrive. Instead, a muffled groan came from the man beside her.

"This is?"

Hearing Yin Yue's eyes held surprise. She looked at the man beside her and only then discovered that there was a blood hole in the center of the man's brow. At this moment, his raised hand hung limply, and his body was falling backward.

Bang!

The man on the left fell, and the next moment, the man on the right did the same.

Hearing Yin Yue's little mouth curled up. She could be certain that Lin Chen had arrived.

"Who!"

Chen Shan's reaction was also very fast. The moment his two subordinates died miserably before him, his figure flashed and he grabbed toward Hearing Yin Yue.

However, he was fast, but someone was faster than him!

Just as Chen Shan's figure flashed, a golden light struck. Caught off guard, Chen Shan hurriedly slapped out a palm.

Boom!

A wave of energy rippled outward like a tide. Chen Shan's figure staggered back several steps, his right hand hanging low, his palm dripping with blood.

In just the first move, he had been injured.

Chen Shan's face held a look of horror. Looking at Fang Zhan, who had appeared before him, his pupils shrank. This person was not someone he could rival.

If it were elsewhere, he would have turned and fled at this moment. But this was Lotus Island, with his master sitting in command. Chen Shan suppressed the panic in his heart, and a cold sneer appeared on his face.

Even if he gave this Fang Zhan the courage, he wouldn't dare to truly kill him. It was highly likely that this little girl was his descendant, and he had only attacked in anger after seeing the little girl about to suffer a slap.

But after the anger passed, facing his master, this Fang Zhan would inevitably choose to compromise, or even apologize to him.

Chen Shan thought well, but the next moment, a sense of crisis arose in his heart. His hair stood on end. Almost without any hesitation, Chen Shan retreated at the first opportunity, and at the same time, he was about to open his mouth to shout for his master's help.

But the next moment, Chen Shan's whole person suddenly became sluggish. And just as his eyes regained clarity, he only saw a wisp of ice-blue light.

Am I dead?

This was Chen Shan's final look of doubt, carrying bewilderment and confusion.

Slap!

Two breaths later, Chen Shan fell to the ground, a blood hole in the center of his brow, exactly the same end as his two subordinates.

"Uncle Fang, you finally came."

Hearing Yin Yue's expression didn't change at all as she spoke to Lin Chen.

Even if there were only her and Lin Chen in the courtyard now, she wouldn't call out Lin Chen's real name until she was sure the surroundings were absolutely safe.

"Go!"

Lin Chen nodded and grabbed Hearing Yin Yue's hand. Lotus Island still had a Third-Rank Island Master, and there were also several Second Stage Innate powerhouses. This time, he had specifically caught Chen Shan off guard and didn't want to alert the Island Master of Lotus Island.

Unless the Island Master of Lotus Island had his spiritual sense fixed on Chen Shan's mansion at all times. But one would think an Island Master wouldn't go that far. Although doing so could ensure that Chen Shan would be saved the first moment he encountered danger, for Chen Shan, it was also a form of surveillance.

No Innate martial artist would be willing to have every move watched by another's spiritual sense, and given Chen Shan's temperament, he would agree even less.

But Chen Shan's death couldn't be hidden for long. Before the other party discovered it, the further they took Hearing Yin Yue, the better.

However, the next moment, Lin Chen let go of Hearing Yin Yue's hand, his face looking ugly as he looked toward the northern sky.

The Island Master of Lotus Island had discovered it!

"What great courage, to actually kill my disciple!"

An old man's figure stood on the courtyard wall, his beard and hair raging like a burning fire, and the terrifying pressure of his Third Stage Innate Realm turned into substantial flames and swept down.

Outsiders only knew that Chen Shan was his disciple, but they didn't know that Chen Shan was actually his son who had been separated from him many years ago.

Back then, for the sake of his Martial Way cultivation, he had offended many people. To prevent Chen Shan from being retaliated against by his opponents, he had always hidden Chen Shan's existence.

It wasn't until later, when he stepped into the Second Stage of the Innate Realm and those enemies had either been wiped out by him or had died of old age, that he chose to bring Chen Shan by his side.

But just in case, he still didn't let Chen Shan acknowledge his ancestry, but instead took him in as a disciple and lived with him in a master-disciple relationship. ===== CHAPTER 498 =====