Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 830 - 343: Level 4 [Fish Pond]; Level 2 [Ant Nest] (Ten Thousand-Word - ) Part 2

In front of his old friend, Ji Yuan had no reservations, speaking as freely as he wished.

”You go first. Have you heard anything?”

”I can determine it is definitely not a coincidence.”

Liu Yuan rubbed the wine pot in his hand and said in a deep voice, ”Look at these; these are the portraits of ’Old Demon Ji’ I’ve collected over the years.”

After Liu Yuan finished speaking, he waved his right hand, and dozens of opened sheets of white paper appeared on the table.

Ji Yuan released his divine sense and looked through a few sheets, only to discover...

”You’ll find that each time Old Demon Ji appears, his appearance might change slightly, but overall, it is extremely similar to your original look, especially with the same name...”

Liu Yuan spread his hands, ”Alright, I’ll admit, when I first learned of this, I thought this Old Demon Ji was you.”

”I even wondered if you were a doppelgänger of some big figure or perhaps your divine soul had split into two, one in the east and one in the west.”

The more Liu Yuan spoke, the quieter his voice became. By the end, he was seriously looking at Ji Yuan.

”Actually, I still have this feeling. You... could you really have some big secret?”

”Don’t worry, if you can’t say, I won’t ask again.”

As Liu Yuan spoke, he leaned back.

Yet his gaze never left Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan held the wine pot, paused for a while, and then said, ”Regarding my identity... I can assure you there’s absolutely no problem. If I said this to you, would you believe me?”

”Yes.”

Liu Yuan spoke without any hesitation, blurting out, ”If I don’t believe you, who can I trust?”

”Then there’s no problem.”

Ji Yuan shook his head, ”I’ve been here for a while and have investigated a lot. The person impersonating me... definitely knows me.”

”You mean... this person also came from Cangluo?”

”Very likely, otherwise why do they keep speaking in Elegant Language?”

Ji Yuan asked back.

Liu Yuan listened, twitching slightly at the corner of his mouth. He quickly switched to using the dialect of the Jiyuan Continent and said, ”Speaking of this, learning the Elegant Language here in the Jiyuan Continent really cost me some effort.”

”Damn.”

Liu Yuan rarely cursed, ”In the end, I caught a loose cultivator in the Qi Cultivation Stage and kept him locked up for months, only then forcing myself to learn the local dialect.”

”Otherwise, I’d be laughed at everywhere I went.”

”I don’t know what’s going on here, apparently a continent much larger than our Cangluo Continent, yet no one speaks Elegant Language.”

Ji Yuan nodded, thinking that if it wasn’t for a stroke of luck meeting Mu Xueyao when he first came over...

Learning the Elegant Language here would have been quite difficult.

”However, I heard earlier that Old Demon Ji went to Cangluo, but recently I heard he’s still on this side of the Jiyuan Continent. True or false, I don’t know what’s going on,” Liu Yuan said.

Ji Yuan took a sip of Heart’s Desire Wine before responding:

”From what I know, he should have gone to Cangluo. Not long ago, they said he was still here on the Jiyuan Continent because a few Core Formation cultivators from Celestial Killer Mountain encountered me and mistook me for Old Demon Ji, which led to a fight.”

Liu Yuan immediately stood up and scrutinized Ji Yuan from head to toe.

”Goodness... Celestial Killer Mountain... several Core Formation cultivators... had a fight...”

Liu Yuan exclaimed, suddenly pointing at him and continuing in dialect:

”Hey, you still claim that you’re not Old Demon Ji!”

Ji Yuan could only smile wryly.

If even Liu Yuan thought so, imagine what other people would think. There were times Ji Yuan himself wondered if he really was Old Demon Ji.

No reason.

Too similar.

”But you said this person came from our Cangluo Continent. Do you think it’s possible it’s one of our Water Dragon Sect brothers?”

Liu Yuan pondered and curiously asked.

”I don’t know.”

”By the way, we can investigate when this Old Demon Ji first appeared on the Jiyuan Continent, and then, using that time, you can deduce who you’ve met in your younger years... wouldn’t that reveal who it is?”

Liu Yuan clapped his hands, very excited, as if he had come up with a brilliant idea.

”I’ve already tried.”

Ji Yuan shook his head, ”Can’t find the time when Old Demon Ji first appeared, not even the exact location. News of his appearance came from all four directions and sounded very plausible.”

”Then...”

Liu Yuan paced back and forth in front of Ji Yuan and then suddenly brightened up, clapping his hands, ”Right! Do you think there’s a possibility that Old Demon Ji... is actually your father!”

”I remember you said your father died early, is there a chance he didn’t die at all but came to the Jiyuan Continent instead? Also, considering you come from Cloud Rain Marsh with a pseudo spirit root, achieving today’s success, how could your father be any less capable?”

...No, I’m strong because I opened it.

Ji Yuan inwardly retorted, but then reconsidered.

What Liu Yuan said made some sense!

Otherwise, why would this person claim his name and look exactly like him?

Still, Ji Yuan couldn’t accept the answer, finding it unlikely.

”Alright, I’ll get to the bottom of this impersonation myself.” Ji Yuan concluded the topic, mostly because continuing would lead nowhere.

Neither of them knew who Old Demon Ji really was.

Nor where to look.

All they knew was that Ji Yuan seemed to have some connection with Old Demon Ji, but discussing it further didn’t make much sense, besides exchanging the information each had gathered.