Shadow Blade was a name renowned throughout the land. Wu Yuan was a prodigy said to have reached the first-rate Adept level at the tender age of seventeen. Could they be one and the same? If they were, didn’t that mean he was a seventeen-year-old Great Grandmaster?1

"Haha, Brother Song Guang, you jest. I do have some connections with the Cloudstride Sect," Wu Yuan responded naturally. "But I am not Wu Yuan. I merely protected him in secret when he first joined the sect."2

"He possesses great talent. Given time, it won't be difficult for him to reach the Grandmaster level," Wu Yuan continued, his tone nonchalant.0

This was the answer Wu Yuan had prepared long ago. He knew that hiding Zang Jing’s identity as Shadow Blade might not be possible. After all, it was widely known that Shadow Blade possessed a Chu-Jiang Token. Coupled with his recent act of protecting Bu Yu, it was bound to raise suspicion.0

But the connection between Shadow Blade and Wu Yuan? Regardless...0