Chapter 141: Speak Without Reservation!

The five people in the hall were each lost in thought.

Yang Fan sat to one side, feeling somewhat uneasy as well.

What did this mean? Why had everyone suddenly fallen silent? Had they not said they had questions for him?

It did not take Bashan Mo long to compose himself. He once again put on a benevolent, kindly smile.

“Haha, young friend, you are truly exceptional. To have entered the Magic City Cultivation Academy, your natural talent must be extraordinary indeed.”

“You flatter me, Senior. Although I possess a certain aptitude for cultivation, I am certainly not worthy of being called extraordinary.”

Yang Fan answered modestly.

What he was thinking was that there was a time for showing off, but one could not overdo it. Just as when he had faced Kun Sha, he had done everything in his power to conceal the fact that he was the disciple of Li Tian, an eleventh-rank powerhouse.

If that relationship were exposed, the consequences would be no laughing matter.

Once people learned that he was the disciple of an eleventh-rank powerhouse, he would have only two possible paths in the Kunlun Secret Realm, where he had no support.

The first would be to be treated as an honored guest, provided with the finest food, drink, and cultivation resources. But the chances of that happening were not high.

The second would be to imprison him and send someone out to seek negotiations with Li Tian. They might first express goodwill, but if Li Tian refused, they would throw Yang Fan to the wolves and use him to threaten Li Tian.

Based on Yang Fan’s understanding of the powerhouses on Earth, they would absolutely never submit to threats.

Once the Kunlun Secret Realm decided that he had no further value, there would be no reason to keep him alive. At best, he would simply be imprisoned indefinitely.

Yang Fan could not accept that. Even though revealing his master might bring him excellent treatment, the terrifying consequences were something he had no desire to bear.

“Hehe, you are being too modest, young friend. How much do you know about our world?” Bashan Mo nodded without taking offense, then asked casually.

Yang Fan pondered briefly before replying, “I have not been in the Kunlun Secret Realm for long, so my understanding of this world is still rather limited.”

Bashan Mo nodded, signaling for him to continue.

“This is an incomplete world, lacking many of the laws that govern existence. There is no such thing as the Dao here, which is why there are no powerhouses above the eleventh rank. In addition, this world is home to a great many exotic beasts. During my travels through the Kunlun Secret Realm, I encountered several beast tides. In fact, it was because of one such beast that I was able to reach the Bashan Tribe.”

After finishing, Yang Fan turned to look at Bashan Mo.

Bashan Mo was somewhat surprised. He had not expected Yang Fan to know about the existence of the Dao, nor had he expected him to know that there were no eleventh-rank powerhouses in the Kunlun Secret Realm.

But after thinking about it, Bashan Mo understood.

The Bashan Tribe lay far from the Azure Sky Plains, in the central region of the Kunlun Secret Realm.

Although the place where Bashan Hong had discovered Yang Fan was some distance from the tribe, it was not especially far away—at least, it was much closer than the Azure Sky Plains.

For someone like Yang Fan to have crossed the entire Azure Sky Plains and still know nothing would have been strange indeed.

Bashan Mo did not dwell on the matter any further.

“Since you are a disciple of a top power in the outside world, you must naturally know a great deal about it. This old man would also like to learn something of the outside world. I hope you can enlighten me.”

“Senior, I would never dare claim to enlighten you,” Yang Fan hurriedly replied. “Since you have asked, I shall tell you everything I know and hold nothing back.”

That was what he said, but inwardly, Yang Fan was deeply unwilling.

If he were not so weak, and if he had no backing in the Kunlun Secret Realm, who would waste their breath explaining all this to you?

Yang Fan then began describing the outside world to Bashan Mo.

His tone and the structure of his account were almost identical to the way Li Xianyi had spoken with Kun Sha that day.

Nine parts truth and one part falsehood.

Bashan Mo listened in utter bewilderment.

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At that moment, Kun Sha stood alone, gazing from afar at the exit of the passage leading through the Azure Sky Plains.

Hundreds of black-robed figures had gathered there, along with many high-level exotic beasts.

The battle between the black-robed men and the beasts that Kun Sha had imagined never took place.

After he had led his people into retreat that day, the beasts had charged straight ahead, heading directly for the passage entrance.

For a time, Kun Sha had thought that the beasts also intended to reach the outside world and break through to a higher rank.

But the result astonished him.

The instant the black-robed men and the beasts came into contact, both sides stopped.

More precisely, the black-robed men had not moved at all and showed no intention of attacking. As for the beasts, several powerful tenth-rank beasts let out furious roars, forcing the entire tide to halt in its tracks.

Afterward, the black-robed men continued guarding the passage entrance. More than a dozen tenth-rank beasts stood outside their perimeter, while the rest of the beasts spread across the entire Azure Sky Plains.

The surrounding great tribes subsequently sent people to investigate.

They soon discovered that the beasts had changed in some way.

Anyone below the fifth rank could enter the Azure Sky Plains without hindrance. Even if they walked right past a beast’s mouth, the creature would merely drool and make no attempt to attack.

But cultivators above the fifth rank faced a different fate. The moment they stepped into the outermost region, the beasts would attack them. Any eighth-, ninth-, or tenth-rank cultivator who entered would be swarmed from all sides.

The tenth-rank powerhouses were targeted most fiercely.

South of the Azure Sky Plains stood a tribe known as the Purple Moon Tribe.

Its chieftain, Purple Moon Guanghua, personally entered the Azure Sky Plains. The instant her front foot crossed into its territory, the dozen or so tenth-rank beasts that had been circling outside the black-robed men erupted with terrifying ferocity and charged straight toward her.

The beautiful chieftain was nearly frightened to death.

After that lesson, Kun Sha abandoned any thought of entering the Azure Sky Plains.

Once all of this had occurred—especially after the beasts and the black-robed men began coexisting peacefully—Kun Sha understood where the problem lay.

There was no doubt that the beasts had been summoned by the eleventh-rank powerhouse, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone.

Whenever Kun Sha thought of all the members of his tribe who had sacrificed their lives resisting the beast tide that day, it felt as though his heart were burning with fire.

The Kunpeng Tribe had risen under Kun Sha’s leadership, and he cherished every one of its members.

Earlier, Kun Lie and Kun Zhan had been slain by the Azure Sky Eagle while protecting Yang Fan, causing Kun Sha considerable anguish for quite some time.

His destruction of the Azure Sky Eagle had not only been meant to give Earth an explanation; it had also been an act of vengeance for his people.

And now, because the Lord of the Forbidden Zone had drawn the beasts here, so many more members of his tribe had died. Kun Sha’s heart burned with fury.

When he saw the beasts running in the distance, he wanted nothing more than to crush them with a single slap.

But the strength of the Lord of the Forbidden Zone lingered in his thoughts.

An eleventh-rank powerhouse!

That was not someone he could oppose, nor someone he could defy. Let alone merely ordering the beasts to guard the Azure Sky Plains—even if the other party ordered them to exterminate the entire Kunpeng Tribe, Kun Sha would have no power to stop them.

At that thought, Kun Sha turned away dejectedly, his heart filled with boundless resentment and desolation.