Chapter 2047: Where Are the People?

Ning Siyu's information was soon placed before the assembly of Heavenly Lords.

Everyone was left speechless.

A mere five-star Divine Alchemist girl could actually match a Dao Realm initial-stage expert.

Such strength was simply astounding.

Wasn't this Ning Siyu just the Ye Yuan of the younger generation?

At this moment, the group of seven-star Divine Alchemists finally understood why those geniuses had all chosen Ye Yuan.

How could a barren place like Tianying produce such a prodigy? Ning Siyu must have been trained by Ye Yuan!

All told, Ning Siyu had only been with Ye Yuan for a thousand years, yet she possessed such strength—truly astonishing.

Everyone looked at Ye Yuan as if he were a ghost. This guy... was a freak!

Danyu Heavenly Lord somewhat understood Yun Yi now. His great-grandson had an obsession with the Dao of alchemy that ordinary people could hardly fathom.

Having witnessed Ye Yuan's great ability, how could Yun Yi not be tempted?

If Yun Yi could truly become Ye Yuan's disciple, it would be a good thing even for the Yundan Great Emperor.

Though he was reluctant to admit it, Piaoyu Heavenly Lord's talent was indeed higher than his.

Now that he had lost to Piaoyu, the chances of him winning back grew slimmer over time.

However, Yun Yi's potential was far from exhausted. Once developed by Ye Yuan, it was not impossible for him to surpass Piaoyu Heavenly Lord in the future.

But... could Yun Yi really pass Ye Yuan's test?

The disciple recruitment of this Yundan Conference ended in such a dramatic fashion.

Apart from Ning Siyu, the other thirty-nine people left Yundan Great Capital immediately afterward, heading for Tianying Imperial City.

Then, the half-month-long Grandmaster Lectures began.

Fourteen venues were set up in the city for the fourteen grandmasters to give lectures.

The Grandmaster Lectures could be considered a benefit. All alchemists in the city could choose to listen to the grandmaster they admired, with no restrictions.

Lin Tong was a five-star Divine Alchemist from a remote imperial city. He had traveled thousands of miles to Yundan Great Capital just to attend the Grandmaster Lectures.

He had not been qualified to enter the inner city to observe the Yundan Conference; his reason for coming to Yundan Great Capital was precisely for these final Grandmaster Lectures.

In the outer city, he had also made some like-minded friends, and they agreed to attend the Grandmaster Lectures together.

"Lin Tong, which grandmaster's lecture are you planning to attend?" asked the speaker, Song Zichun, a friend Lin Tong had made during this time.

Lin Tong answered without hesitation: "Do you even need to ask? Danyu Heavenly Lord, of course! He is a Ancestral Realm powerhouse, the number one in the Southern Domain!"

Song Zichun chuckled and said, "Number one in the Southern Domain? Your information is really outdated! Danyu Heavenly Lord lost to Piaoyu Heavenly Lord this time; the title of number one in the Southern Domain has changed hands!"

Lin Tong's eyes widened in disbelief. "Danyu Heavenly Lord is an Ancestral Realm powerhouse; how could he lose?"

Song Zichun, eager to show off, laughed and said, "You don't know yet, do you? Piaoyu Heavenly Lord came prepared this time. He has broken through to the Ancestral Realm and defeated Danyu Heavenly Lord in full view of everyone. The next Yundan Conference will be renamed the Jinhuan Conference!"

"R-really? Something like that happened?" Lin Tong exclaimed in shock.

Low-level martial artists like them found it hard to get news from the inner city; they often had to piece together information from various sources.

Song Zichun had some connections in the inner city, so the news he got was relatively accurate.

Song Zichun said smugly, "Hey, although Piaoyu Heavenly Lord defeated Danyu Heavenly Lord, their brilliance at this Yundan Conference was overshadowed by another person."

Lin Tong was stunned by this series of revelations and asked blankly, "Could it be... there is someone even stronger than these two Ancestral Realm powerhouses?"

"Heh, stronger, no. But it shouldn't be difficult for him to surpass these two Ancestral Realm powerhouses in the future," Song Zichun said with a smile.

Lin Tong breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It seems this Yundan Conference produced an extraordinary genius."

Every Yundan Conference produced many geniuses; that was nothing unusual, so Lin Tong naturally paid it no mind.

Song Zichun, however, sneered and said, "Yundan Conference? Hah, that's for the younger generation. The lord I'm talking about is at the True God Third Heaven, a six-star Divine Alchemist, yet he already towers above all seven-star Divine Alchemists and has become a grandmaster. Not only that, all forty geniuses of this Yundan Conference wanted to take him as their master!"

Lin Tong's expression grew more and more incredulous as he listened.

After Song Zichun finished, he chuckled and said, "Brother Song, you're exaggerating too much. A six-star Divine Alchemist towering above all seven-star Divine Alchemists? How is that possible?"

Seeing that Lin Tong didn't believe him, Song Zichun only sneered and said, "Believe it or not, I'm going to attend Grandmaster Ye's lecture. Farewell!"

Watching Song Zichun leave, Lin Tong shook his head with a wry smile.

Song Zichun's boast was too big; no one could possibly believe it.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Tong. There were no fewer than hundreds of thousands of alchemists in the city, and they simply didn't believe that a True God Sixth Heaven could overshadow two Ancestral Realm powerhouses.

When the Grandmaster Lectures began, Ye Yuan's lecture venue had the fewest attendees, only a few thousand.

Most of these few thousand were very young, alchemists who had participated in the Yundan Conference.

Lecturing was different from alchemy duels; no matter how strong Ye Yuan's abilities, his accumulation couldn't match that of other grandmasters.

Moreover, Ye Yuan was only a six-star Divine Alchemist.

So people didn't have much confidence in his lecture.

For many alchemists, this was an opportunity that came once in several millennia; they certainly didn't want to waste it on a grandmaster so young that he invited doubt.

Seeing the sea of alchemists around him, Lin Tong felt greatly reassured.

"That Song Zichun must be bragging. Maybe he himself is here listening to Danyu Heavenly Lord's lecture. If that young grandmaster were really that impressive, everyone wouldn't be here listening to Danyu Heavenly Lord," Lin Tong thought to himself.

On the first day of the lectures, Lin Tong listened with rapt attention.

An Ancestral Realm powerhouse was indeed an Ancestral Realm powerhouse; such insight, such lecturing—absolutely above all others.

Lin Tong's alchemy strength was already considered quite high in the surrounding imperial cities, but his abilities had reached their limit.

A small imperial city could no longer allow him to advance further.

By chance, he heard about the Yundan Conference and came to Yundan Great Capital without hesitation.

Now, listening to Danyu Heavenly Lord's lecture, he felt as if he were walking on clouds.

That feeling made him think he might break through at any moment.

"Hey, this is the true strength of an Ancestral Realm powerhouse! This lecture might be the breakthrough opportunity for me!" Lin Tong thought with absolute certainty.

But just then, a faint murmur of discussion arose around him.

Lin Tong frowned and turned his head to express his displeasure.

An Ancestral Realm powerhouse was lecturing, and yet they weren't listening attentively but whispering among themselves.

But as soon as he turned around, he was dumbfounded.

Where are the people?