Madam Nalan was lucky to have saved Lu Yin all those years ago. At the time, Lu Yin had just been a student, but at present, he had risen to become the most important person in the entire Fifth Mainland. This was the return on Madam Nalan’s initial investment.

Still, it was a pity. If Lu Yin had been tempted by Madam Nalan all those years ago, she might be the one laughing at this moment. Just thinking of the way that Lu Yin had looked at her all those years ago made Madam Nalan chuckle.

Elsewhere on Planet Aegis, Lu Yin was studying the mirror.

It was truly odd that this thing could perfectly reflect an exact replica of an attack.

Lu Yin occasionally attacked the mirror, and each time, the mirror would perfectly replicate and reflect the attack back at Lu Yin.

After a few attempts, Lu Yin realized that the replicated attacks were all formed from fog, which further verified his earlier guess that the mountain and sea in the pocket dimension where the mirror had been found might be related to Progenitor Smoke.

Progenitor Smoke, also known as Progenitor Fog,¹ had been a very peculiar Progenitor. There were no records of the powerhouse anywhere, but they had controlled one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas.

Despite there being no records of the Progenitor, she had left behind various inheritances, such as Smoke-Eater Peaks, the bridge on Eversky Island, and the Smokecloud Sect in the...