The northern part of the Celestial Star Imperial Capital, the seat of the highest power of the Celestial Star Empire - the Celestial Star Imperial City.

In the secular world, the north is respected, so in the area north of the imperial city, there are only ordinary people's residences, and there can be no more mansions of dignitaries. Moreover, in the imperial capital, except for the military camp, the scale of any building could not exceed that of the imperial city.

The Imperial City covers an extremely large area, and from a distance it looks like a prehistoric beast lying there. Tall, noble, magnificent, majestic.

When the news of Lin Zhan's duel with Zhang Jiye spread in the Heavenly Star Imperial Capital, this seemingly unfathomable imperial city also seemed to have a trace of waves.

Passing through the layers of defense, through the layers of buildings, a voice came from the place where the entire imperial city was the most heavily defended, the most ornate, and the most concentrated power.

"Lin Zhan, you've been sharpening this sword for three years. Now it's time for me to see how sharp you really are. ”

The entire imperial capital was in a stir because of this incident, but few people knew what Lin Zhan really thought about this matter.

Because after agreeing to a duel with Zhang Jiye, Lin Zhan disappeared.

After a while, Lin Zhan was gone. No one knew where Lin Zhan had gone, not even Lin Ling.

The entire students of the Heavenly Star Academy, the spies of the major forces, and even the secret agents of the royal family, countless people were looking for Lin Zhan for different reasons, inquiring about Lin Zhan's news, and trying to figure out what Lin Zhan was doing now.

But in the end, no one found any trace of Lin Zhan.

Where did Lin Zhan go?

Celestial Star Academy, back mountain, deep in the jungle.

This is the deepest part of the mountain behind the Heavenly Star Academy, and even the best students of the Heavenly Star Academy are reluctant to come here alone.

Because there are so many dangers here.

In order to enhance the strength of its students, the Heavenly Star Academy captures a lot of beasts and spirit beasts from all over the world every year and puts them in this area. If students want to hone and improve their strength, they can come here to hunt these beasts and spirit beasts, and the academy will not do the slightest restriction. Moreover, all the proceeds of the hunt belong to the students themselves, and the academy does not take any shares.

Correspondingly, the college also has regulations: after stepping into the back mountain, life and death are up to you, and the college is not responsible.

The outermost part of the dense forest in the back mountain is not dangerous because it borders the academy. In addition, the environment here is beautiful, so it has become a place for many young couples to meet closely. You can start from the outermost part, and the area after half a mile is not something that ordinary people can step into.

Especially in the depths of this dense forest, this is the area where real high-level spirit beasts are infested. If a student wants to experience here, they will generally apply to the school, gather several people to form a team, and then lead the team by two instructors, and only dare to set off after being fully prepared.

Of course, there are people like those who don't know the height of the sky and want to break through alone. However, except for a few lucky ones, the rest of these people have completely integrated with this dense forest.

Now, in this dangerous zone that no one will easily step into, under the darkness, there is a slightly thin but resolute figure.

This is the deepest and most dangerous area in the entire back mountain, and those powerful, bloodthirsty high-level spirit beasts are entrenched in this area.

No one in their normal sense would want to stay here for too long. Not to mention the dangers that may arise anytime and anywhere, whether there are really high-level spirit beasts hiding in the shadows and spying on you. The mere tension of having to walk on thin ice with caution at every step is enough to drive anyone crazy.

Danger may be terrifying, death may be terrible, but what is really terrible is the process of waiting for danger and death in an unknown place.

But in this dangerous and terrifying area, this slightly thin body has been sitting here for a long time.

This is the deepest part of the forest, and there is nothing neat and clean. The figure sat casually under a large tree, its eyes closed, its hands raised in front of its chest, forming a strange handprint. The whole person seems to have fallen into a state of suspended animation, and there is no sign of life from the outside. Only the rise and fall of the chest every once in a while proved that the man was still alive.

And it was with this rise and fall of the chest, between a breath and a breath, there seemed to be some shock in the surrounding space, and the aura of heaven and earth was stripped out of the surroundings in this shock, and with the breath of this figure, it passed through the countless pores on this person's body and drilled into this person's body.

With one breath, the aura of heaven and earth in a large area around it was emptied in an instant, which caused fluctuations in the aura of heaven and earth in a larger area. In order to fill this area, the heaven and earth aura in the surrounding space rushed into this evacuated area. Under the repeated washing of these heaven and earth aura, the plants around here are swaying, and their branches and leaves seem to be a little brighter.

Then, the figure fell silent again.

But under this calm appearance, a series of changes have taken place.

The aura of heaven and earth enters the body along the pores of the whole body. First of all, the muscles, blood vessels, muscles and bones are tempered, and the strength of the flesh is enhanced. The rest of the heaven and earth aura entered the meridians and reached the dantian with the operation of the exercises. There is a small whirlpool in the dantian, which is constantly rotating. As soon as the aura of heaven and earth came into contact with this small whirlpool, it was absorbed into it, and it was rapidly compressed within the whirlpool, eventually forming a particle-like crystal suspended in the whirlpool.

The aura of heaven and earth that had been evacuated in the surrounding space of dozens of zhang finally formed such a small crystal after refining the physical body. And there are tens of thousands of such crystals in this whirlpool.

One can imagine how much energy is contained in such a whirlpool.

When all the heaven and earth aura was transformed into the crystals in the whirlpool, the figure's chest rose and fell again, and the heaven and earth aura that had just been filled around was emptied again.

And so on and so forth.

This figure is Lin Zhan.

When the outside world was talking about Lin Zhan and constantly inquiring about Lin Zhan's news, Lin Zhan hid in the depths of the back mountain of Tianxing Academy and worked hard to cultivate.

Although Lin Zhan is confident to the point of being a little arrogant, he will definitely not be conceited. Although Lin Zhan was a little arrogant, he didn't feel that he was really invincible in the world. Thinking twice before acting, making adequate preparations, and striving for the greatest advantage over oneself are the principles of Lin Zhan's conduct of life.

This duel was intentional by Lin Zhan, but in the eyes of outsiders, it was Zhang Jiye's deliberate provocation. In order to win this duel, Zhang Jiye will definitely make all kinds of preparations.

What kind of preparations Zhang Jiye will make, Lin Zhan can probably guess. Even if Lin Zhan couldn't guess it, Lin Zhan's huge intelligence network would help Lin Zhan find out.

Zhang Jiye worked hard to make a noise during this period of time, and everyone knew about this duel. While cutting off Lin Zhan's retreat, he also cut off his own retreat.

And he also threw himself out completely.

What Lin Zhan has to do now is to hide in this place, on the one hand, to improve his strength, and on the other hand, to make Zhang Jiye unable to figure out his actions.

The enemy is clear and I am dark, I know the enemy but the enemy does not know me. This is the first advantage that Lin Zhan has created for himself.

In the eyes of everyone, Zhang Jiye was a fifth-order high-level martial artist, while Lin Zhan was only a fourth-order early stage of strength, and there was a huge gap between the two of them.

This kind of cognition is the second advantage that Lin Zhan has created by hiding himself for so many years.

The strength of the early stage of the fourth order was the result of Lin Zhan's desperate suppression. If Lin Zhan really let go of the suppression, Lin Zhan dared to say that he could rush to the seventh order within a few days.

It's just that there is no need for Lin Zhan to completely let go of his strength now, because Lin Zhan's current strength is enough for him to challenge Zhang Jiye, who is a fifth-order high-level.

What Lin Zhan has to do now is to thicken this confidence to another level.

This is the third advantage that Lin Zhan has created for himself.