"Taoist, I'm here to buy ginseng fruits. Just now, I couldn't find anyone, so I picked a hundred of them on the spot and even lost one. How should I pay?"
"Let's talk about this kind of small matter later. Hurry up and eat with me. If you're late, you won't be able to make it."
The fat Taoist priest was very impatient. He didn't listen to what Su Chen said at all and pulled him to leave.
Su Chen was confused again.
A hundred ginseng fruits weren't as important as a vegetarian meal?
He felt like his IQ was being trampled.
Su Chen felt more and more that this Zhen Yuan Sect was strange. He wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, but this fat Taoist priest was too enthusiastic. Su Chen couldn't get away for a while.
Moreover, Su Chen found that this fat Taoist priest looked ordinary, but his strength was frightening. Su Chen's current strength was comparable to a Great Heaven Realm cultivator, but when the fat Taoist priest grabbed his arm, he actually felt a little pain in his arm.
This was simply incredible.
Su Chen had no choice but to follow the fat Taoist priest's footsteps.
Trotting all the way, the fat Taoist priest soon brought Su Chen to a hall with fragrant food. There were at least five hundred Taoist priests gathered here, all eating vegetarian meals. However, the whole hall was extremely quiet. No one was talking. Everyone was focused on eating, and there was no unnecessary communication at all.
The fat Taoist priest pulled Su Chen to an empty seat in the corner and sat down. Then, he ordered two vegetarian meals.
Well, although the vegetarian meal smelled good, it looked terrible. It was even worse than the school cafeteria when Su Chen was studying in his previous life. The soup was splashed everywhere, and the dishes were randomly mixed together. The key was that there was no oil at all. Su Chen even saw a few ripe little green worms in the leaves.
Seeing that the fat Taoist priest had begun to eat with relish, Su Chen felt like he was riding a tiger and couldn't get off.
Should I eat it or not?
He wondered if the meal was poisoned.
However, after letting the System identify it, he found that it was indeed just an ordinary vegetarian meal. Although it was dirty, it wouldn't be bad.
Gritting his teeth, Su Chen decided to go all out.
The food entered his mouth.
Hmm?
Damn, what kind of delicacy was this?
Su Chen had eaten countless delicacies, and he boasted that he was half a gourmet. If it weren't for the current situation, he wouldn't even look at such dishes.
But when he actually tasted it, the taste was simply beyond Su Chen's imagination.
Compared with the unremarkable vegetarian dish in front of him, the so-called exotic delicacies he had eaten before felt like pig feed.
It was clearly such an ordinary vegetarian dish. How could it be so delicious?
What the f * ck did they add?
Su Chen couldn't care less. He finished the food on his plate in a few bites and then went to get a new one. The old Daoist who served the dishes saw that Su Chen was a stranger, so he specially got more for him. Su Chen ate to his heart's content.
After eating until he was full, Su Chen was finally satisfied.
However, the fat Daoist was nowhere to be found.
There weren't many people left in the cafeteria.
Su Chen was about to clear the table when suddenly, an old Daoist with an extraordinary bearing wearing a purple and gold Daoist robe came to Su Chen with a horsetail whisk in his hand.
"Young benefactor, how was the food?"
Su Chen looked up and found that the old Daoist's strength wasn't simple. He was clearly standing in front of him, but Su Chen couldn't sense the old Daoist's aura at all.
"May I ask who you are?"
"I am Ma Yuanhao, the leader of the Zhen Yuan Sect."
Su Chen immediately stood up and bowed respectfully. "Junior Su Chen pays his respects to the Sect Leader."
Su Chen didn't expect Ma Yuanhao to suddenly appear. He had a strange feeling in his heart. Could it be that Ma Yuanhao already knew that he came to the Zhen Yuan Sect?
No matter what, there must be a big problem.
Otherwise, with Ma Yuanhao's status, why would he take the initiative to meet him?
He was at the peak of the Heaven's Equal Realm, a super powerhouse with half a foot in the Divine King Realm.
Ma Yuanhao smiled. "No need to be so polite. Young Su, you must be very curious about why I suddenly appeared here. To tell you the truth, I received a request from an old friend. Today, I'm in seclusion, waiting for your arrival."
"Waiting for me?"
Su Chen was shocked.
Ma Yuanhao meant that the Zhen Yuan Sect wasn't usually like today, when outsiders came. But today, because Su Chen was coming, they specially closed the door and declined visitors, allowing only Su Chen to come to the Zhen Yuan Sect.
But this was too strange.
Su Chen learned about the Zhen Yuan Sect from Feng Qingwan and was transported to the Zhen Yuan Sect. It didn't take more than two hours.
Before this, Su Chen didn't know about the existence of the Zhen Yuan Sect at all.
How did Ma Yuanhao know that he was coming to the Zhen Yuan Sect today?
Who asked Ma Yuanhao to come?
Too many questions lingered in Su Chen's heart for a moment.
He couldn't help but ask, "Can you tell me, Sect Leader Ma?"
There was too little information. It was meaningless for Su Chen to continue making wild guesses, so he might as well ask for clarification.
Ma Yuanhao knew that Su Chen would definitely ask, so he smiled and said two words — Tongtian.
Tongtian?
Tongtian Empress?
Su Chen turned pale with fright.
How could it be her!
"Young Su, don't panic. Fairy Rosy Cloud is not in the Zhen Yuan Sect. She did come once two months ago, but left soon after."
Rosy Cloud … This was Tongtian Empress's common name. Jin Fengxian had mentioned it before.
It was clear that Ma Yuanhao really knew Tongtian Empress.
However, what Su Chen did not understand was how Tongtian Empress had found out about his existence before he had even gone to find her.
And she even knew that he would come to the Zhen Yuan Sect today.
This was a freaking clairvoyant ability!
Su Chen suddenly felt a little flustered.
Tongtian Empress's ability was too terrifying. Could it be that she already knew that Su Chen had contacted Jin Fengxian, and that Su Chen wanted to harm her?
If that was the case, then Su Chen was in a very bad situation.
Su Chen wouldn't be afraid if Tongtian Empress was standing in front of him. Because of the origin of the Phoenix Clan, Su Chen could control her as he wished by activating the Phoenix Clan's origin brand in her body. However, Tongtian Empress wasn't here. She could calculate that Su Chen would come to the Zhen Yuan Sect today, but she left early. This meant that she deliberately didn't want to meet Su Chen face to face. Obviously, she knew that Su Chen had something on her.
But even if she knew that she couldn't do anything to Su Chen, who was she?
She was one of the five remaining Great Emperors in the Primordial Universe.
The only female Great Emperor expert, she was a woman who stood at the top of all living beings.
Not only was her combat strength incomparably strong, but she also had a strong network of connections as a Great Emperor expert.
Otherwise, Ma Yuanhao wouldn't have appeared in front of him.
If Tongtian Empress wanted to use Ma Yuanhao to get rid of him, it couldn't be easier.
Thinking of this, Su Chen had to admit that he was panicking.
All of a sudden, he stepped into a death sentence without even a chance to struggle.
Facing a Half-step Divine King expert, how could Su Chen resist?