However, despite his initial disappointment, the old man was reluctant to give up on the two people. It would be a pity for such promising individuals to become casual cultivators. Reluctantly, he spoke again, “You pretended to be my disciple, why don’t you want me to be your master now?”

Upon hearing the words ‘pretend to be a disciple’, Cheng Qi looked at Li Tianyan curiously. This person must be Elder Tian Min. He remembered back then when their cultivation was low and they had no background. Li Tianyan had accepted the identity as Elder Tian Min’s disciple out of concern for the Hou family’s potential hostility, but he did not expect the real Elder Tian Min came to meet them today.

Li Tianyan had guessed it long ago, and there was no emotion on his face. “Others misunderstood me at first, it was not my fault.”

“But you didn’t deny it either. It’s not easy to be a casual cultivator. You two are so talented. You should come back to the sect with me. At least the spiritual energy there is more abundant than in the mortal world, which will help you practice,” the old man urged, sighing heavily. He never thought he would humble himself and begging others to be a disciple.

But when he talked about the sect, Cheng Qi was not pleased. He puffed up his cheeks and said with an unhappy face, “I don’t want to go to any sect. Your sect is full of bad people, they even wanted to kill someone. You just want to arrest me and the young master, why are you still coaxing? Who knows what kind of have bad intentions you hide from us.”

Upon hearing this, the old man’s face immediately darkened. “Is there such a thing? Didn’t I tell them not to harm you? Why would anyone want to kill you?”

Initially, the sect only wanted to investigate the reason for the disappearance of the secret realm, but later they confirmed the two people had taken the treasures.

However, these two individuals had used his name to gain fame in Yuncheng, and the news about them was sent together with another cultivator who had done many evil things. The sect thought the three people were in cahoots, so they issued a mission to arrest them. But now, he just wanted to bring these two back.

But later, he heard an inner disciple of the sect named Shang explain that these two individuals were the ones who had uncovered the Hou family’s conspiracy and captured the Hou family’s ancestor in the secret realm. Additionally, after seeing the medicinal pills refined by Li Tianyan, Tian Min realized that maybe the sect had misunderstood these two individuals. He hurried to Yuncheng and instructed people not to harm them, then how could anyone still want to kill them?

“I have to ask you, why would such a big sect bullying small people like us? They even broke into the villa where we live, leaving us homeless. Every time we meet, we’re asked to hand over some inherited treasures, or else we’ll be killed,” Cheng Qi spoke with growing indignation. If the people from the sect hadn’t been pressing them every step of the way, they wouldn’t have ended up in this Zidong Kingdom.

Tian Min’s expression became more and more angry as he listened, and then he said, “Little friend, please don’t be angry. There may be a misunderstanding here. The sect did covet the inheritance, but it wasn’t because of the inheritance that the two of you were arrested. Besides, it’s inconceivable for Tianfan Immortal Sect to stoop to such levels for an inheritance treasure. There must be something wrong here.”

“What misunderstanding? That’s what the sect disciple said. He asked us to hand over the treasures to the sect and said he would plea lighter sentence for us,” Cheng Qi would not easily be swayed.

Tian Min jumped down from the tree, walked up to the two of them, and said, “I wonder, little friend, do you know the name of this disciple? I will definitely find out about this matter.”

It seems that he had to go back and ask questions. Someone must be stirring up trouble here. Seeing that Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi had no background to rely on, they wanted to snatch the treasures from them. And it sounded like there were quite a few people like this. Tian Min even suspected that the elders of the sect were also involved, otherwise the disciples of an Immortal Sect wouldn’t be so audacious.

It was a pity, at that time he received a valuable Wind Grass and retreated to refine alchemy. He only handed Li Tianyan’s matter to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator in charge and then returned to the sect. If he had stayed in Yuncheng for two more days at that time, he might have seen some clues.

“I don’t know the last name of the male cultivator who was chasing us, but a female cultivator named Lin Hong showed up and stopped him,” Cheng Qi recalled.

Hearing that a female cultivator from the sect had rescued them, Tian Min was secretly relieved. Lin Hong finally gave the sect some dignity back. But then Cheng Qi continued, “Later, the male cultivator discussed with her to kill us together. The inheritance treasures will be shared equally between them privately. Although I don’t know if the female cultivator agreed in the end, but she found our whereabouts without bringing other disciples with her, and pursued us alone, so…” Cheng Qi shrugged, leaving the implication clear.

Elder Tian Min: “…”

Li Tianyan kept staring at the old man in front of him, not missing any subtle changes on his face. It seemed that the old man didn’t appear to be lying anyway.

“I will investigate this matter and give you two an explanation. If that disciple is found guilty, he will be punished according to the sect’s rules and regulations. But you should come back to the sect with me; otherwise, there’s no point in staying in Jincheng,” Elder Tian Min said sincerely to the two of them.

If they joined the sect as his disciples, they could live in his Qingdan Palace, and naturally, no one would dare to attack them again in the future.

“What if you’re just trying to trick us?” Cheng Qi pouted unhappily.

Tian Min suddenly burst out laughing, “Little friends, if I really wanted to pry into your affairs, do you think I still need to try so hard coaxing you? No matter how powerful your husband is, he is no match for me now.”

Having said that, Tian Min still admired Li Tianyan very much. He originally thought that if the young man couldn’t defeat the snake demon, he would take action to end it for him. Who would have expected that this kid could solve it with just one formation?