Fantasy: I Am the Villain.

Chapter Ninety-Six: Sect Leader

Bai Yan had just learned from A-Can that the Second Elder had some connection with Fang Shiqing of Wanbaotang, and his heart sank. He then hurriedly left Tiandu Peak.

Wanbaotang is an important department of Tiance Palace responsible for alchemy, weapon crafting, and the distribution of cultivation resources to its disciples.

Unlike his Enforcement Hall, although he resigned from his position as an Enforcement Elder due to his advancement to Supreme Elder, the Enforcement Hall was still under Bai Yan's control.

However, there are two people in charge of Wanbaotang: Chief Alchemy Elder Lin Yixin and Chief Weapon Forging Elder Tang Tiancheng.

Both of them were engrossed in their research and neglected worldly affairs. The worldly affairs of Wanbaotang were usually managed by their personally trained disciples.

Fang Shiqing is Lin Yixin's direct disciple and has considerable power in Wanbaotang. How did he end up getting involved with the Second Elder?

Bai Yan frowned, pondering the impact of combining the two, when suddenly a loud noise came from behind him.

Looking back, he saw dust rising from Tiandu Peak. He had no understanding of the laws of space and could not sense the violent spatial fluctuations.

However, the rampant spatial rifts were frantically destroying everything around him, and Bai Yan could feel the fluctuations in the laws emanating from the top of Tiandu Peak.

His expression immediately changed, and he turned and rushed towards Tiandu Peak. His cultivation was extremely high, and the black and white energy around him flickered, even wiping out the void completely.

In just a few breaths, Bai Yan had already arrived at Tiandu Peak. With a sweep of his divine sense, he spotted Bai Ke and his companion, who were frantically fleeing with A Can.

He flashed forward and arrived in front of Bai Ke at the last second, blocking the spatial rift for him.

Before Bai Yan could ask any questions, the spatial rift had become unstable after such a long period of brewing, and Bai Ke had no way to regain control of it.

Bai Yan could only use his great magical power to forcibly control the spatial rift and prevent it from expanding further, but he could not shrink or even close it.

Seeing that the spatial rift was controlled by his cheap father, Bai Ke didn't bother to explain anything and used his divine sense to help Bai Yan slowly close the spatial rift.

Bai Yan took a deep look at Bai Ke, who was hiding behind him. If he wasn't mistaken, it seemed that his son had helped to close the spatial rift just now.

Since the beginning of the era of interdimensional colonization, news of teleportation array damage leading to spatial storms has been reported every year in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

When such things happen, the sects involved often have no choice but to suffer in silence and spend a lot of money to hire cultivators who are proficient in the laws of space to untangle the void's veins.

The sudden appearance of a spatial rift on Tiandu Peak shocked Bai Yan, who could not spare the time to investigate the cause and could only do his best to control the rift and minimize the damage.

He was wondering when others would arrive to help close the spatial rift, but unexpectedly, his son stepped in and solved it for him.

Furthermore, given that this spatial rift originated from the summit of Tiandu Peak, Bai Yan quickly guessed that it must be related to Bai Ke.

Without bothering to ask Bai Ke what had happened, Bai Yan looked up at the western sky. Bai Ke stood obediently behind him, looking down like a docile little boy.

"Hmph! Stop pretending. You'll have to give your father an explanation for this later. When someone comes, you know what you should and shouldn't say."

Bai Yan whispered to Bai Ke through divine sense, and Bai Ke readily agreed, his mind racing as he thought about how to explain this to his father.

Outside Tiandu Peak, a figure gradually emerged from the void. Bai Ke's gaze sharpened. This person had such powerful skills that he didn't even cause a spatial fluctuation.

"Junior brother, what just happened? How did it cause such a large fluctuation in the void?" The figure that appeared from the void asked Bai Yan.

Bai Yan bowed slightly, "Sect Leader... Junior Brother has just arrived here and has only just finished closing the spatial rift, so I haven't had time to investigate the cause yet."

"Oh... I see. To be able to eliminate this spatial rift with one hand, you must have made great progress recently, Junior Brother?"

The sect leader looked at Bai Ke standing behind Bai Yan and suddenly laughed, "Eh? Isn't this my nephew Bai Ke? What, you've also come out of seclusion?"

Bai Ke stepped out from behind his father, bowed slightly, and said, "Greetings, Master Uncle. That spatial rift..."

Bai Ke was about to continue speaking when the sect leader smiled and waved his hand to stop him, "We'll talk about this later. How did things go between you and that young lady Xiufeng that day?"

Bai Ke looked embarrassed. "What's going on... Why is the sect leader personally inquiring about his own marriage?"

He hurriedly flipped through the memories left by the original owner, but he only had a general understanding of the original owner's interpersonal relationships after the fusion.

Judging from the sect leader's words, it seems that his relationship with my family is quite unusual... I wonder why.

After a quick search, Bai Ke found the original owner's impression of the Tian Ce Palace leader in the remaining memories.

The head of Tian Ce Palace was named Ning Fengyi. As her name suggested, she was beautiful and had the bearing of a phoenix. She was the dream lover of the female disciples of Bai Yan's generation.

He and Bai Ke's adoptive father, Bai Yan, had been friends since childhood and had a very close relationship. In addition, he was exceptionally talented and handled matters with tact and discretion, so he was designated by the previous generation of sect leaders as their successor.

It was precisely because he was burdened by worldly affairs of the Tian Ce Palace that his cultivation progress was slightly inferior to Bai Yan's. But now it seems that he has already entered the Void Reversal Realm.

"Haha, junior brother, look how shy this nephew Bai Ke is. What's wrong? Is your father too embarrassed to tell your senior uncle?"

Ning Fengyi smiled and said to Bai Ke and his son, Bai Yan snorted coldly and remained silent, so Bai Ke could only say with a bitter face:

"Sect Leader Uncle... please stop teasing your nephew. Who spread this news? How did even you find out?"

"Hahaha, do you need someone else to pass on the message? Don't you know what you've done, you little rascal?"

Ning Fengyi pointed at Bai Ke and laughed heartily. Suddenly, his gaze stopped on Bai Ke. "Eh? Junior Nephew Bai, you... have broken through to the Nascent Soul stage?"

Bai Ke glanced at Bai Yan, who remained calm, and seeing that he made no comment, he whispered:

"Thanks to my master, I recently broke through and advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. I was hoping to give you and my father a surprise, but I didn't expect you to find out so quickly."

Ning Fengyi laughed, "You little rascal, Bai Ke, how come you've become so glib after all this time? Your father was such a blockhead, never expected to have such a clever little devil like you."

After saying that, he waved his hand, and a wisp of spiritual energy circled around Bai Ke before being withdrawn. "Alright, we can discuss the spatial rift in detail when we get to the main hall."