Cui Jingyan asked in confusion, “What could possibly be amiss about his background?”

Here on the Azure Continent, Su Yi was an extremely dazzling, heaven-defying figure, and the people still spoke of his legendary exploits.

This had naturally drawn Meng Po Palace’s attention.

However, no matter how they looked at him, Su Yi’s origins seemed perfectly ordinary and unexceptional.

He was from a tiny clan in a remote nation. His father, Su Hongli, was just a Xiantian Martial Ancestor, and his mother, Ye Yufei, had long since passed away.

There was nothing strange about any of that.

Furthermore, everyone had long since ascertained that Su Yi wasn’t the possessed puppet of some old monster, nor was he a monster of the ancient era who’d survived the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness.

Nothing about his background was worthy of notice.

This was why Cui Jingyan thought it so strange that the Ninth Libationer and Xue Ye thought it was Su Yi’s background that had drawn her grandfather’s attention.

The Ninth Libationer calmed himself, and his expression turned a bit strange. “Su Yi is a peerless genius of the younger generation; the more...