Everything Lu Yin had done over the years flickered through Arch-Elder Zen’s mind. Regardless of how one viewed Lu Yin’s actions, the child was not someone selfless enough to share his strength with others to help them improve, and yet that was exactly what he had done. Lu Yin had established the Tower of the Fifth, and its existence drew the most talented cultivators from the entire Fifth Mainland. However, everyone who received one of Lu Yin’s inheritances had to acknowledge him as a half-master.

Arch-Elder Zen had initially believed that Lu Yin simply did not want to deal with certain troubles, but at the moment, it suddenly looked as if Lu Yin had already known that the Perennial World would send people searching for him and demanding he be given to them. Viewed in this light, all of Lu Yin’s actions became reasonable and logical.

Arch-Elder Zen had not been able to understand why Lu Yin had bargained to keep the new universal armors at the Tower of the Fifth for a few extra months before delivering them to the Hall of Honor, but if the Semi-Progenitor’s suspicions were correct, then Lu Yin had pushed for such a thing because the universal armor could prove important to the Fifth Mainland refusing to turn him over to the Perennial World.

Many things instantly fit together in Arch-Elder Zen’s mind, though they all led to an even bigger question: how could Lu Yin have known what the Perennial World was doing?

It was the Perennial World. Not even the Hall of Honor could...