Not even Lu Yun could see through what kind of existence Lu Shenhou was now. In all likelihood, the man had left Xiankan all those years ago not to avoid suspicion, but to set up all of his various other schemes.

Perhaps Donglin Taihuang searching out the Qing Clan and requesting production of a girl with a cosmic constitution was also related to him. Likewise, he’d been the one who’d brought Lu Yun, Qing Yu, and a few others to the ruins of the Firmament Prison, into the tomb where the Dao Flower lay.

It also was inside that tomb that Dongfang Hao had died, then mysteriously came back to life to obtain the Sword of Chaos. Plainly, none of it was a coincidence and all had been part of a carefully crafted...