Chapter 558

At the mountain gate.

Lin Chen smiled at the disciples of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect. Elder Zhuang's temper was still so explosive, but this also just showed that Elder Zhuang really regarded him as his own junior, otherwise he would never have this tone.

He was a genius disciple of the Canglan Sect, representing the Canglan Sect outside. If he didn't regard him as his own junior, even Elder Zhuang would have to treat him with courtesy.

"Then I won't delay Lin Lin Shixiong's time."

The disciples of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect also twitched their mouths. Since Elder Zhuang personally sent a message, they couldn't stop him. Elder Zhuang's explosive temper... none of them sect disciples were not afraid.

This time, Lin Chen went directly to the courtyard where Elder Zhuang lived.

"Lin Lin Shixiong?"

Zhao Haoyang saw Lin Chen, was stunned for a moment, and then there was excitement on his face.

"Zhao Lin Shidi."

Lin Chen also smiled and looked at Zhao Haoyang. They hadn't seen each other for more than two years, and Zhao Haoyang's temperament was much more mature than before.

"Lin Lin Shixiong, why are you here?"

"Zhao Lin Shidi doesn't know? I came to your sect upon the invitation of Elder Zhuang."

Hearing Zhao Haoyang ask this, Lin Chen was also a bit puzzled. Didn't Elder Zhuang tell Zhao Lin Shidi?

"My Master invited you?"

There was surprise in Zhao Haoyang's eyes. Why didn't Master tell him about this?

"Did Zhao Lin Shidi become a disciple under Elder Zhuang?"

Although seeing Zhao Haoyang in the place where Elder Zhuang lived, Lin Chen already had a guess in his heart, but when he really knew that Elder Zhuang had accepted Zhao Haoyang as a disciple, he was still happy for Zhao Haoyang in his heart.

"Master, he doesn't dislike me for being stupid, willing..."

"Indeed a fool, until now, even the second Xiantian Fire has not been completely refined."

Zhuang Lie's voice came, and his figure also walked from behind. Zhao Haoyang immediately shut up, and Lin Chen saluted: "Junior greets Elder Zhuang."

"What realm are you at now?"

Zhuang Lie squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Chen. Before sending someone to send a letter to the Canglan Sect, he was not sure that Lin Chen would be in the Canglan Sect, but the person who sent the letter told him after returning that this letter had already been delivered to Lin Chen's hands.

Since Lin Chen received the letter, with his understanding of Lin Chen, he would inevitably come to the sect. His spiritual sense had been staring at the mountain gate, which was the real reason why he could discover Lin Chen at the first opportunity when he arrived at the mountain gate.

But earlier at the mountain gate, his spiritual sense only perceived Lin Chen, but his perception of Lin Chen's realm was very vague. This discovery shocked Zhuang Lie, which was why he asked this way the moment he saw Lin Chen.

"Junior was lucky, stepped into the Xiantian Fourth Realm."

Zhao Haoyang's pupils on the side shrank, as if he had heard something incredible, his mouth opened wide...

Xiantian Fourth Realm...

How did this Lin Lin Shixiong cultivate?

There was no change in Zhuang Lie's expression. He had already expected it; now he was just listening to Lin Chen say it himself.

"You stay here with me for a while, I have something to go to the Sect Master now, and I will come back to see you in a while."

"Elder Zhuang, please go ahead, Junior is not in a hurry."

Lin Chen nodded. He had a guess in his heart that Elder Zhuang going to see the Sect Master of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect was very likely to discuss matters related to himself.

Zhuang Lie left, and Zhao Haoyang took Lin Chen into the courtyard and made fragrant tea.

"Lin Lin Shixiong, do you know why my Master called you here?"

Zhao Haoyang took the initiative to ask. Lin Chen shook his head: "Elder Zhuang didn't say clearly in the letter, just let me come to the Wan Wan Huozong Sect."

Hearing Lin Chen's answer, Zhao Haoyang pondered for a long time and said: "If I'm not mistaken, Master calling you here, Lin Lin Shixiong, is very likely related to the Holy Fire Realm."

Matters within the sect, logically speaking, should not be told to people of other sects, but Zhao Haoyang knew how much his Master valued Lin Chen, and at this time Master called Lin Chen to the sect, it could only be because of the Holy Fire Realm.

Then he revealed the matter of the Holy Fire Realm to Lin Chen, Master would not punish him. Even if the deacons of the Law Enforcement Hall knew, he wouldn't be afraid. With his Master's temper, the people of the Law Enforcement Hall could only turn a blind eye.

"Holy Fire Realm?"

Lin Chen's eyes narrowed slightly: "When I came to the Wan Wan Huozong Sect back then, Elder Zhuang once had an agreement with me, letting me come again two years later. I guessed that Elder Zhuang letting me come again should be related to the Holy Fire Realm, but now three years have passed, shouldn't the time for the Holy Fire Realm to open have passed?"

"The time for the Holy Fire Realm to open has passed, but until now the Holy Fire Realm has not closed yet."

Zhao Haoyang's voice lowered a little: "I don't know the specific situation very well, I only know that those senior brothers who entered the Holy Fire Realm have not one come out yet."

"Haven't come out yet?"

"I heard from other senior brothers that every time the Holy Fire Realm opens, the people who go in will gradually come out within half a year. The fast ones might come out in half a month, but this time since the Holy Fire Realm opened until now, seven months have passed, and not one has come out."

The opening of the Holy Fire Realm is a big event for the disciples of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect, and the disciples who go in are also genius disciples of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect. These genius disciples haven't come out for so long, even if the high-level of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect wants to hide the news, they can't do it. After all, these disciples have senior brothers and junior brothers with good relationships.

Listening to the news revealed by Zhao Haoyang, Lin Chen also fell into thought. He could now be sure that Elder Zhuang indeed called him because of the Holy Fire Realm, but it was clear that the Holy Fire Realm opened by the Wan Wan Huozong Sect this time had a change, and in this situation, Elder Zhuang still called him, why?

In the main hall of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect, more than a dozen elders were listed.

Dong Congyang looked at Elder Zhuang who was debating with many elders, and was also a bit helpless.

"I haven't said anything wrong. Now that the Holy Fire Realm has had a change, so many disciples have not been able to come out. Do you want to watch these disciples stay in the Holy Fire Realm forever?"

"Elder Zhuang, you are a bit alarmist. The Holy Fire Realm has indeed had a change, but it doesn't mean that all disciples cannot come out. Maybe they are just temporarily trapped."

An elder retorted: "Everyone has experienced what the Holy Fire Realm is like. The biggest possibility is that there is a wind storm inside, blocking the way out, and as long as the storm ends, then many disciples can naturally come out."

"Elder Zhuang, I know you have always valued Lin Chen more. But no matter how much you value Lin Chen, this Lin Chen is only a disciple of the Canglan Sect. Where is there any use of our sect's resources to cultivate disciples of other sects."

"It's not our sect's resources, but the resources in the Holy Fire Realm."

Zhuang Lie corrected the words of the retorter. The martial arts resources in the Holy Fire Realm are to be taken by ability. If the entrant's talent is not enough, they can only return empty-handed.

"Elder Zhuang, what is the difference between the two? Why bother to nitpick here."

"Of course there is a difference." Zhuang Lie sneered: "Although the Holy Fire Realm was created by our sect's founder, all the Xiantian Fire inside is nurtured by heaven and earth. Our Wan Wan Huozong Sect plays more of a role of guarding. The resources inside will not decrease because of one more person entering. When the founder created it, he didn't stipulate that martial artists of other sects were not allowed to enter."

"When the Holy Fire Realm allowed martial artists of other sects to enter, did it affect the development of our sect?"

Zhuang Lie's gaze swept toward everyone at the scene: "In those years, our sect had geniuses emerging one after another, but since the Holy Fire Realm was not open to martial artists of other sects, our Wan Wan Huozong Sect occupied the Holy Fire Realm alone. Did the sect's strength increase?"

This sentence made the expressions of many elders at the scene sink, because they knew that what Zhuang Lie said was the truth.

Whether the Holy Fire Realm is open to the outside or not has no great impact on the sect, and there is no great change in the sect's disciples.

"Elder Zhuang, the reason why the Holy Fire Realm was not open to the outside was to let martial artists with fire-refining talent in the entire Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao join our sect. If the Holy Fire Realm allowed martial artists of other sects to enter, many with fire-refining talent might not necessarily join our sect."

An elder at the upper left spoke slowly. Zhuang Lie sighed after hearing this: "I recently read through all the situations of disciples who joined the sect in the past three thousand years, including some geniuses with fire-refining talent who didn't join our sect in these three thousand years, and then read through the three thousand years when the Holy Fire Realm was open to the outside, but the result made me dumbfounded."

"Elder Zhuang might as well say it directly." The elder on the left frowned.

"In the three thousand years when the Holy Fire Realm was open to the outside, the overall strength of our sect's disciples was far better than the three thousand years when the Holy Fire Realm was closed. One reason is that some with fire-refining talent but didn't join our sect came to our Holy Wan Wan Huozong, and discussed with our sect's young disciples, as well as spurred each other."

"The martial arts road is long, but how many young disciples can really settle down?" Zhuang Lie looked at everyone again: "The Holy Fire Realm does not allow martial artists of other sects to enter, and very few geniuses from other sects come to our sect. The disciples are left with competition within the sect, but sect fighting belongs to internal fighting, and after losing once or twice, they accept their fate."

"But if disciples from other sects arrive, the meaning is different. I specifically observed the cultivation progress of our sect's disciples in the past two years. In the past two years, especially the batch of disciples who just entered the Xiantian realm, the strength growth is generally faster than the previous batch, and the reason is because of Lin Chen's arrival two years ago."

"When Lin Chen came to our sect back then, the talent he displayed aroused the fighting spirit of these disciples. Like my disciple Haoyang, although he admires Lin Chen very much in his heart, I know that his cultivation has never stopped for a moment, just to catch up with Lin Chen."

"I also informed the Sect Master about this situation half a year ago."

Hearing Zhuang Lie say this, the gazes of all the elders in the Great Hall looked at Sect Master Dong Congyang.

Dong Congyang nodded: "Elder Zhuang is right. After Elder Zhuang informed me about this, I also arranged for people to understand it. The result obtained is the same as Elder Zhuang's. After Lin Chen's arrival, this batch of disciples' cultivation speed is twenty percent faster than the previous batch, and the time spent on cultivation is generally twenty percent more than the previous batch of disciples."

At this moment, all the elders in the entire Great Hall were silent.

The reason why everyone opposed Lin Chen entering the Holy Fire Realm was not targeting Elder Zhuang, nor targeting Lin Chen, but just because of sect rules, not wanting to make an exception for Lin Chen.

"I don't oppose the Holy Fire Realm being open to the outside again, but the situation inside the Holy Fire Realm is unclear... and the most important thing is that Lin Chen is a disciple of the Canglan Sect. The Canglan Sect is at war with the Eight Desolations Sect. If Lin Chen is allowed to enter, will it make the Eight Desolations Sect misunderstand that our sect has united with the Canglan Sect?"

The major super sects of the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao, the two adjacent sects are mortal enemies. Because of the particularity of the Wan Wan Huozong Sect's cultivation, there is no grudge with the Canglan Sect, but the Wan Wan Huozong Sect also doesn't want to be involved in the war between the Canglan Sect and the Eight Desolations Sect.

"There is no need to worry about this. As long as we don't disclose it to the outside, no one will know."

Zhuang Lie had long thought of the response: "Even if the news is disclosed, it doesn't matter. The Holy Fire Realm has a change, and many of our sect's disciples are alive or dead inside. We need to send people in to understand the situation, and the Eight Desolations Sect can't pick out any faults."

"Elder Zhuang, even if we want to send people in, it doesn't necessarily have to be Lin Chen. We can also choose others."

"Because Lin Chen is irreplaceable, there is no more suitable candidate than him."