The Hidden Dragon Sword Sect.

The peak of Verdant Focus Peak. This was where the Pineflame Daoist, one of the sect’s high elders, cultivated.

An elder with graying hair but bright, childlike eyes sat cross-legged in a simple bamboo building, a look of bewilderment on his face. “There is indeed something strange going on with this Su Yi boy.” 

“Master, can you determine anything?” Chang Guoke couldn’t help but ask. 

Tonight, when the Ten Directions Pavilion publicized their report, he immediately learned of the massacre that had occurred in the Imperatorial Province’s governor’s estate, and he couldn’t have been any more shaken. 

Thus, he came here specifically to seek his master’s guidance. 

“Within the Great Zhou, there are indeed several prominent figures who had miraculous encounters, people like Family Head Su Hongli, State Preceptor Hong Shenshang, Featherflow King Yue Shichan, Palace Master Ning Sihua of Heaven’s Origin Academy, Palace Master Feng Jianying of Starcliff Academy, and the Mountain-Subduing King, Mu Xi….”

The Pineflame Daoist pondered for a while, then said, “But their miraculous encounters and grand strokes of fortune were almost all connected to the Eight Great Yao Mountains. Some received the inheritance of a true cultivator, while others obtained secret treasures or inherited some type of mysterious power, while a few consumed some miraculous treasure of heaven and earth….

“But Su Yi is different!” As he said this, the Pineflame Daoist’s gaze was deep and instant, and his eyes flashed with intelligence. “According to what you’ve just told me, he entered Blueriver Sword Manor to cultivate at fourteen. At sixteen, he lost his entire cultivation...