“With your current strength, you might have an advantage against a single spirit beast. But once you face a pack of beasts, your combat experience will reveal a significant problem. Your fighting style needs more training. Didn’t your father let you practice in real combat?” Chen Zhou said, looking at the woman in pink as he walked.

"Actual combat? I want more, but I was born weak. I was able to cultivate to this level entirely because of my dragon-snake bloodline. Now my body is not as weak as before, and the direction I'm taking is definitely not a collision between physical strength and true qi, okay?" The woman in pink said, her face beaming with confidence and excitement.

If it wasn't physical strength and internal energy, then what was this woman in pink relying on? Chen Zhou couldn't figure it out.

"So you rely on your looks?" Chen Zhou couldn't help but tease. At this moment, Chen Zhou looked the woman in pink up and down. Although the woman in pink was not a beauty of unparalleled grace, she was still quite pretty overall. Like Wo Yuan, she could be considered an average beauty.

Chen Zhou believes that a woman of average beauty is considered a fairy in the vast Wolong Mountains, because people who grow up here eat simple meals and have little time to take care of their appearance.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I need to rely on my looks? Let me tell you, I am... Humph! I won't say it, or I'll scare your teeth out!" the woman in pink said shrewdly.

"Huh? You scared the crap out of me? That's amazing. This has piqued my interest. Could it be that you have a dragon or snake inside you?" Chen Zhou continued to tease. Now, Chen Zhou found it rather amusing to banter with this woman in pink.

"Give me time, and those black ape populations will be a piece of cake for me!" the woman in pink continued forcefully.

"A piece of cake? That's impressive?" Chen Zhou said sarcastically, but in his mind he was already thinking: what could be both time-consuming and incredibly powerful? Just as Chen Zhou was pondering, the woman in pink couldn't help but speak up: "I am a formation master!"

Hearing the woman in pink's words, Chen Zhou calmly nodded. If she was an array master, then it made sense again. Most array masters in sects had very poor practical experience because they didn't need to fight; they only needed to set up and activate arrays.

Therefore, it's understandable why the woman in pink has poor combat experience. She's an array master, which explains her lack of experience. And given time, she could indeed use arrays to defeat the group of black apes.

"I see. Then why did your father send you to Qianlong Mountain? What help can a formation master like you possibly offer?" Chen Zhou asked curiously. They already knew he was a formation master. If it was something a formation master could handle, they should just tell him. Was he really less capable than this young girl?

Then Chen Zhou realized that he was still in seclusion, so they naturally didn't want to disturb him, which explained things clearly.

Chen Zhou quite liked this kind of logical thinking; as long as it could be explained clearly, then the matter was probably correct.

"I don't know either. My father sounded very anxious, so I came straight here. He was still urging me just now," the woman in pink said, shaking her head.

Chen Zhou nodded gently, said nothing more, and continued leading the woman in pink up the mountain path.

"Hey! What's your name? You're so young, yet you've already reached the Enlightenment stage. You must be a rising star in the new generation of the Hidden Dragon Sect, right? Do you know what happened here? Also, do you know who the leader chosen last time the temple opened was? It's said to be a very young and handsome guy! More importantly, he's incredibly strong, and now he's absorbed the True Dragon Phantom. Isn't he even stronger? Have you seen him? Compared to my father, who's stronger?"

Once the woman in pink was freed from the restraints of her true energy, she became even more talkative, asking so many questions that Chen Zhou forgot what she had actually asked.

Chen Zhou could only answer one question: "My name is Chen Zhou."

"Any other questions?" The woman in pink was clearly not asking about Chen Zhou's name, but rather about what would follow.

Chen Zhou turned to look at the pink-clad woman with a helpless expression and said, "I've already told you my name, but you won't tell me yours. Don't you think that's very impolite?" Chen Zhou asked directly.

“Ah… I forgot, my name is Wo Wan,” the pink-clad woman named Wo Wan replied.

"I really don't have the authority to know the answers to those questions you asked. I'm just a low-level member of the Hidden Dragon Sect." After learning her name, Chen Zhou immediately answered the questions she had asked earlier.

"You're so young and you've already reached the enlightenment stage, yet you don't have the authority to know?" Wo Wan said, somewhat shocked.

“That’s right, I’m at the very bottom of the Hidden Dragon Sect. There are tons of people like me in the Hidden Dragon Sect!” Chen Zhou replied immediately.

"What? A lot of them? Are the people of the Hidden Dragon Sect really that talented? Does that mean that many people in my generation of the Hidden Dragon Sect have entered the Heartbeat Stage?" Wo Wan said in shock. In her generation of the Hidden Dragon Sect, only Wo Yuan had entered the Heartbeat Stage. With so many people in the Hidden Dragon Sect, could there be even more?

"I don't know about that," Chen Zhou said, waving his hand.

The two walked along Qianlong Mountain and soon approached the summit. Seeing that they were close to reaching the peak, Chen Zhou increased his speed.

Chen Zhou had taken this same path the first time he climbed the mountain. When he arrived at the entrance of the Hidden Dragon Sect, he was stopped, and the situation gradually deteriorated. The vampires then made their move. Thinking about this, Chen Zhou couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, but he still quickly passed through the gate of the Hidden Dragon Sect.

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