The other cultivators in the courtyard, seeing this person never set foot outside, not attending the daily morning and evening classes, nor the lectures during the day, and even avoiding the training rooms... naturally, they began to have doubts.
When Chen Yan came out midway to collect meals, fellow disciples in the same courtyard asked him about it. Chen Yan simply said that he received a Jade Scroll bestowed by an Inner Sect Disciple that day and was currently in seclusion, delving into its mysteries.
This excuse made everyone envious, and thus they ceased persuading him further.
On the seventh day, finally, someone from within the outer and inner sect's Jing'an Hall came looking for Chen Yan.
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Zhao Wuji, upon entering the courtyard, because he was wearing the formal robes of an Outer Sect Disciple, every preparatory disciple from the outer courtyard he encountered greeted him with respect.
