The Ku family had reached out to Lu Yin when they had learned that Extremes Must Be Reversed was available on the ninth floor of the Tower of the Fifth, but that conversation had not gone very well.

When Lu Yin had visited the Ku family, he had clearly stated that he had no idea how to teach anyone else how to learn Extremes Must Be Reversed, and yet he had placed that technique on the final floor of the Tower of the Fifth. Was this some kind of joke?

However, Lu Yin had given a very simple answer: the tower would not hold the actual technique. Any who received that inheritance would not receive the technique, but rather Lu Yin’s promise that he would teach them the technique when he was able to. Nothing that Lu Yin had told the Ku family had been a lie.

This was why Ku Lei had traveled to the Tower of the Fifth. He needed to climb to the ninth floor and get Lu Yin’s promise that he would teach Extremes Must Be Reversed in the future. The Ku family had to be the first and only ones to receive that promise.

Ku Lei was the first person to climb onto the base of the tower, and he immediately started walking towards the entrance. There was an enormous statue of Lu Yin in front of the tower, as well as a lesser giant sitting cross-legged on the ground. It was Man Li.

Lu Yin had not been able to fully trust Man Li after the lesser giants had taken refuge from the Sixth Mainland with the Great Eastern Alliance, which...