Back in the Fifth Mainland, within the Heavens Sect, Skymender responded to the message on his wireless jincan. "Dao Chosen."

"I'm assigning you a task. I need you to lead a group of twenty year old cultivators into the Perennial World so that they can join Virtue Archives. When you get there, I want you to help the academy maintain their defensive sourcebox array and force back another Array Grandmaster," Lu Yin explained.

Skymender answered respectfully.

The astral beast was an Array Grandmaster. While Lu Yin had not originally been aware of this, he had learned of his abilities when visiting the place in the Celestial Beast Empire where the humanoid sourceboxes were stored. Lu Yin was interested in seeing just how capable a Lockbreaker Skymender was.

"There are five Semi-Progenitors currently blocking access to Virtue Archives, so when you come, please request Senior Progenitor of Bloodlines to escort you," Lu Yin said.

Lu Yin did not want to instigate a vicious fight with the five Semi-Progenitors blocking access to Virtue Archives, but sending the Progenitor of Bloodlines would not trigger a fight. While the man was a crippled Progenitor who had lost his Progenitor’s world, he still remained a Progenitor. The Progenitor of Bloodlines could still exert the pressure of a Progenitor, which would be enough to prevent Xia Ziheng and the others at Virtue Archives from doing anything to Skymender and the rest of the people that the Progenitor of Bloodlines would be escorting.

After delivering his orders, Lu Yin turned back to his communication...