Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

Zhan Chen opened his eyes just after the expert who was floating in the sky vanished. A cold look appeared on his face as he thought about the malicious aura, he had just sensed.

'Fortunately, there is no side effect in spirit energy cultivation. Otherwise, I would have received a huge setback for such disturbance during a deep state of meditation', he thought to himself.

The spirit energy was still thick in the surrounding but the assuring thing for him was the mysterious diagram stopped operating on it's own after he chose to stop his cultivation.

'My spirit energy cultivation is only half way at this moment. But this can wait. I need to catch that man who has such hostility towards me for some strange reason', Zhan Chen thought to himself.

He took a look at Li Shu, Li Yan and Kai Min before dashing towards the northern direction. He could sense that an emperor was also following the same target but he still decided to take the risk and confront the elder who had disturbed him during his cultivation.

The emperor was following his Target closely. So, Zhan Chen decided to slow down a little. He wanted to observe first before he could confront the elder who had such malicious intention towards him.

The elder who had just left the mountain of Zhan Chen didn't know that he was being watched by two cultivators. He decided to fly northward and stopped after reaching an inconspicuous place.

He carefully scanned the entire area with his soul consciousness and a relaxed look appeared on his face. 'Finally, I can contribute something useful for my clan. My position in the clan will be elevated after I disclose such a mysterious treasure related to Zhan clan', he thought to himself with a gleeful look on his face.

He took out a blue coloured tailsman from his spatial ring and was about to use it but a tyrannical aura suddenly came towards him and left him completely immobilzed. A foreboding premonition rose in the elder's heart as he raised his head to look towards the sky.

A fearful expression appeared on his face after he saw the expert who had just appeared in the sky. "Junior Wang Zhen greets senior Blazing sword. It is my honour to meet senior after such a long time", the elder bowed his head with extreme difficulty. He was still being suppresd by the tyrannical aura. So, it was difficult for him to do any bodily movement.

"Wang Zhen, hand over your spatial ring to me. I need to confirm something before letting you go", the expert spoke with a stern expression on his face.

Wang Zhen 's face ashened a little after hearing the expert's words but he still removed his spatial ring from his finger and showed it to the expert who was observing from the sky.

The expert swept his hand and collected the spatial ring from Wang Zhen 's hand. He swept his soul consciousness across the products of the ring and a frown appeared on his face.

"There is nothing suspicious in your ring except these high quality communication tailsmans.

Moreover, all of these high quality communication tailsmans are of same pattern. So, there most be a fixed person with whom you are sharing these communication tailsmans", the expert observed calmly.

Wang Zhen gulped nervously after hearing the observation of the emperor realm expert. But he still managed to control himself and manufactured a lie immediately to get away from the expert.

"Senior, you may not be aware but my Wang clan currently is in a precarious position. There are very few Heavenly tribulation realm experts in my clan and most of them are already at advanced age. So, the responsibility of entire clan rests on our clan head and on my shoulder.

Clan head can't receive the news about central land easily. So, I always share the news of importance with him time to time", Wang Zhen spoke. He tried his best to appear as normal as possible infront of the emperor realm expert.

"I have no interest in your Wang clan affair but I need to warn you first. Don't ever think of doing anything stupid regarding the matters of Zhan Chen", the emperor realm expert spoke coldly. Wang Zhen nodded his head and assured the emperor that he had no evil thoughts about Zhan Chen. He explained that he was only curious about the inflow of spirit energy. So, he went towards Zhan Chen's mountain to check what was happening.

The emperor realm expert finally let go of Wang Zhen after hearing his words. No matter how suspicious Wang Zhen behaved, he was still an inner court elder of the Xuantian sect. So, the emperor couldn't press him too much without any solid evidence.

"Wang Zhen, I am warning you once again. Stay away from the matters of Zhan Chen as far as possible. His backers are not only limited to the Zhan clan. Even the seniors in the ancestoral peak has shown great interest towards him. So, it will be in your interest if you don't put your nose in Zhan Chen's matters", the emperor spoke before flying away towards the distance. Wang Zhen finally took a breath of relief after seeing the emperor getting away from his place.

'This place is not safe anymore. I should get back to my cave first', he thought to himself and flew back towards the opposite direction. His destination was the Earth peak where he cultivated regularly.

Every cave alloted to inner court elders had protective layers of their own. These protective formations were generally placed for giving some privacy to the cave's inhabitants.

Even Zhan Chen's cave had such protective arrangements. So, it was not surprising to see that Wang Zhen had such a cave for himself.

Wang Zhen strode into his cave as soon as he reached the Earth peak. A hideous expression appeared on his face as he thought about his encounter with the tyrannical emperor.

"Damn it! Even an old dog like Blazing sword is employed to protect that little pipsqueak. With such a tight security, it is impossible to do anything against the Zhan clan brat", Wang Zhen muttered to himself with a frustrated expression on his face.

He was just contemplating how to bypass the securities of Zhan Chen when his eyes fell upon a corner of his cave. A look of disbelief appeared on his face after he saw the cultivator who was leaning calmly on a corner of his cave.

"Zhan Chen!", the elder muttered the name with confusion and disbelief on his face. He couldn't beleive that the pipsqueak he wanted to catch would appear inside his cave.