It wasn’t Lu Yang’s first time hearing of the Dao-Seeking Nine’s reputation. Their name served as a reminder that being a disciple of the Dao-Seeking Sect was a double-edged sword. It could strike fear into weaker cultivators—those at the Divine Transfiguration or Void Refinement stages—but when facing Fusion-stage experts with ties to major factions, odds were they had crossed paths with the Dao-Seeking Nine before. And in eighty percent of those cases, it meant a grudge.0

And if he went to the imperial capital, that eighty percent would likely become a hundred percent.0

At least Meng Jingzhou has the Meng Family backing him in the imperial capital, so he should be safe.1

On the contrary, with the Taciturn Daoist Priest as my shifu and Meng Jingzhou as my good brother, visiting...3