Lu Yin grew curious. "You didn’t know that? Aren't you Bai Wangyuan's daughter? Bai Wangyuan can’t recognize Progenitor Smoke's power?"

"How presumptuous! How dare you refer to Progenitor Bai by his name!" Ru Ying sternly shouted.

Bai Qi glanced over at the woman and then looked back at Lu Yin. "It’s possible that he knows but just never mentioned it to me. The Smokecloud Sect is just a small sect, and it doesn’t deserve his attention."

Lu Yin looked at Bai Qi, and then at Ru Ying. "Your four ruling powers are very skilled at manipulating and altering history. I’m sure that you’ll publicize these events in a way that will work to your benefit."

He then pointed at Ru Ying. "I don’t want to hear comments like that again, or else I’ll make you pay for them.”

Ru Ying glared at Lu Yin, and she wanted to snap back, but she was stopped by Bai Qi.

Ru Ying was just an independent cultivator, which was why she had no idea what had recently taken place regarding Lu Yin. She only knew about the end results, and while she had various guesses and suspicions about what had led up to those results, not everything about Lu Yin was flattering.

In fact, the four ruling powers had already started secretly spreading propaganda that claimed that Lu Xiaoxuan had only been allowed to return because he was being used as bait to lure out more surviving vassals of the Lu family. This explanation seemed to be the most reasonable to the vast majority of people in the Perennial...