But soon, he suppressed the surprise in his heart, bent down and saluted:
"Disciple Ye Qingchen has met the sect master."
"Yes." Xie Donghe nodded lightly, took a sip of tea, and immediately said:
"You have too many secrets, which makes me quite curious about you."
Hearing this, Ye Qingchen immediately became vigilant.
"But..." Xie Donghe paused, and then said: "As long as you don't have any dissatisfaction with Tianhe Sect, I will naturally not take any action against you."
"You can rest assured about this."
At this moment, Ye Qingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Qingchen glanced around and found that he and Xie Donghe were alone here.
"The sect leader is looking for me... there must be something he wants to tell his disciples, right?"
Ye Qingchen guessed.
"good."
Xie Donghe nodded and said: "You should know that our Tianhe Sect and Qiyun Sect once had a deadly feud."
"My only direct disciple Fang Gongyu... died in their hands."
Ye Qingchen naturally knew this.
"Back then, in the 'Dark Cloud Battlefield', he was heavily surrounded by many elite disciples of the Qiyun Sect. Although he burst out with unparalleled power at the critical moment of life and death, he fought several of them for hundreds of rounds..."
"But in the end, two fists were no match for four...he still died in the hands of those bastards!"
Speaking of this, Xie Donghe's usually gentle voice also turned cold in an instant.
Ye Qingchen could hear it right away.
"Since then, a war broke out between our Tianhe Sect and Qiyun Sect... which lasted for five days and five nights."
"If it weren't for the many elders in the sect who strongly opposed the continued fight against Qiyun Sect, our Tianhe Sect... might have ceased to exist in the world."
"Of course...if we really want to continue to fight them to the death, Qiyunmen will not survive alone!"
Having said this, Xie Donghe's eyes became slightly colder, and then returned to normal.
He continued: "I asked Xu Yiqing to bring you here this time because I want to train you well so that you can represent the Tianhe Sect and go to the 'Dark Cloud Battlefield'!"
Dark Cloud Battlefield!
"This 'Dark Cloud Battlefield'... what exactly is this place? Was it because Senior Brother Fang went here that he was surrounded and attacked by people from the Qiyun Sect?"
Ye Qingchen couldn't help but ask.
Generally speaking, top geniuses like Fang Gongyu.
If you go out, there will definitely be strong people accompanying you and protecting you secretly.
If the Dark Cloud Battlefield was just an ordinary place, how could Fang Gongyu not be protected by a strong person, and how could something happen?!
"You said the same thing."
Xie Donghe sighed slightly and said: "The Dark Cloud Battle Territory is an extremely strange and exotic space in the Eastern Blue Territory."
"The Dark Cloud Battlefield is filled with fierce killing energy."
"If you stay in the Dark War Zone for a long time and your determination is not strong, you will easily be eroded by the aura of killing and become a madman who only knows how to kill people."
"But if you are determined, you can gain a lot from it."
He paused, took a sip of tea, and then continued: "What I mean by harvest is multi-faceted."
"It can be a gain in understanding... or it can be a gain in external things such as weapons and martial arts."
Hearing this, Ye Qingchen raised his brows slightly: "What the sect leader means...is that in the 'Dark Cloud Battle Territory', you can get some powerful weapons or martial arts?"
"Yes... it is precisely because of this that we, Qiyun Sect and other major sect forces are attracted to go."
"And you can't just go to the Dark Cloud Battlefield whenever you want... In the middle of every year, the Dark Cloud Battlefield will be open for three months."
"During these three months, each major sect will send out elite disciples to search for excellent weapons and martial arts as well as some treasures that are difficult to see in the outside world."
Xie Donghe took a sip of tea quietly: "Of course, if there are any grievances between the disciples on both sides, they will be resolved internally."
"Then there should be restrictions on who can enter the Dark Cloud Battlefield, right?"
Ye Qingchen guessed.
"Well, although this conclusion is not absolute... but after many verifications by our major sect forces, we found that the killing energy inside has the greatest impact on immortals with high cultivation levels."
"The higher the cultivation level, the greater the influence."
"Even someone with a calm mind like the leader of the Snow Heart Sect, only stayed in there for about a quarter of an hour before he was almost eroded by the killing energy and turned into a madman."
Recalling the time when he was almost eroded, Xie Donghe seemed to be frightened, and then said:
"Therefore, under the joint verification of many of our forces, we found that although the immortals at the level of ascending to heaven will also be eroded by the killing energy, the time of support is completely different from person to person."
"So, we jointly agreed that the disciples sent to the Dark Cloud Battlefield should not exceed the third level of the Ascension Realm."
Ascend to the third level of Heaven Realm!
Ye Qingchen was slightly shocked.
This is a realm that he cannot yet reach!
Thinking of this, Ye Qingchen couldn't help but ask aloud:
"I dare to ask the sect leader, what is the reason why you chose me...?"
If disciples of the Tianhe Sect were selected to go to the Dark Cloud Battlefield, there would be many of them among the inner sect.
Judging from the first to tenth disciples on the Tianhe ranking list, if you pick just one of them, they are more qualified to go to the Dark Cloud Battlefield than him, right?
"Because I...see extremely huge potential in you."
Xie Donghe finally put down the empty teacup in his hand, stood up and walked past Ye Qingchen, looking up at the setting sun.
"Your potential is so strong that even I can only marvel at it."
"Even though I like Fang Gongyu very much and have accepted him as my only direct disciple in this life...but I have to admit that in terms of talent, he is not as good as you."
"And I believe that as long as I can stimulate a little bit of your potential, maybe this trip to the Dark Cloud Battlefield... no one will be your opponent!"
"So... the sect leader actually has his own selfish motives and wants me to help Senior Brother Fang take revenge?"
Ye Qingchen had already heard the implication of Xie Donghe's words.
"……good."
Xie Donghe was silent for a moment, and then said without any concealment: "I do think so."
"Yu'er's death... has been a huge rock weighing on my heart over the years."
"If this boulder cannot be moved away earlier, I am afraid it will gradually become my inner demon."
Xie Dongyu sighed and said, "You should understand that what practitioners like us fear the most are inner demons."
Hearing this, Ye Qingchen thought deeply.
If there are inner demons growing in the heart, then the pace of spiritual practice will naturally be delayed and it will be difficult to move forward even an inch.
"So, I can only place my hope on you."
Xie Donghe turned around and looked directly at Ye Qingchen.
"Just think of it as...a small act of 'willfulness' on my part."