“There were two main factions in Silver Moon’s martial world back in the day,” Hong Yitang continued. “One of them was the community of martial masters that you know of and the other was the talons of the dynasty. Ahem, the latter wasn’t… you understand!”0

Li Hao did!0

Hong Yitang smiled to see that the young man was on the same page as him. “The government wanted to ban martial dao, a decree that required the appropriate strength to reinforce. Therefore, the dynasty raised a crop of their own martial masters to take down the veteran martial masters. The ones from the dynasty had only one mission—hunt down those from the martial world!4

“No one heard of Director Hou before the supernatural domain rose, but he quickly made a name for himself in the Silver Moon Inspectorate. He reached the top shortly after the Night Watchers were formed, so we suspect that he was once one of those from the government!0

“He might’ve been a strong martial master,” Hong Yitang said softly. “Then borrowed Skystar Dynasty’s strength to swiftly cross over. He was at least a Sunflare when he ascended, and with the low number of supernaturals back in those days, he...0