High in the sky, among a sea of white clouds, a child with blue hair and blue eyes stood on a black platform thinner than paper. The child, Hao Yun, looked down and smiled at the sight of the most interesting person he had seen in some time.

"Yan Yu, huh," Hao Yun muttered.

When that girl first stepped into his sect, Hao Yun knew something was off about her. She felt like an old monster, layered with secrets that only the most brilliant mind could unravel. By all accounts, she was an ideal cultivator. She possessed talent, a powerful bloodline, and the ruthless mindset needed to advance in a cultivation world. Yet, many of her actions did not make sense. The massacre of the Xia clan was one such puzzling move.

Hao Yun looked at the still-burning Xia Clan compound as well as a man who had died crawling towards his clan. They were a very small sect. They only had one cultivator beyond the Lock Opening realm, and even in the Twelve Sun Empire, they were mere ants. Yet, Yan Yu had moved straight from Purple Moon Sect to annihilate this clan. She had stopped briefly when she realized there was a treasure nearby, but from the start, she had intended to wipe them out.

From his investigation, Hao Yun knew that Yan Yu came from a small clan in the northern part of the continent. She was a former genius who had been crippled by her uncle and cast aside, only to regain her ability to cultivate.

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While her past was not smooth, there was no apparent connection between her and the Xia clan. No known animosity existed between them, and as far as he knew, this was Yan Yu's first encounter with the Xia clan members. Yet, she had massacred them as if they had killed her parents.

This decision made her even more fascinating to Hao Yun, who loved mysteries. He had methods to instantly learn everything about her, but he decided it would be more fun to solve this mystery himself. Besides, she was incredibly talented, and Hao Yun was always interested in talented people.

Thinking about talented individuals, his gaze drifted to the horizon and he thought about Liu Xing. This guy had only mediocre talent, but his luck seemed to be through the roof. He possessed some powerful treasures and a decent mind to tinker with the interface, as well as the right disposition to be granted limited access to the Hidden Library. As far as Hao Yun knew, only he, the Twelve Elders--currently only eleven members--and Liu Xing had access to it. That made Liu Xing interesting. What did Hao Yun's father see in Liu Xing that he could not?

Hao Yun grinned, then began to laugh. His laughter was cheerful, like the ringing of a bell. He had thought he could only play with Yan Yu, but now another person had caught his interest. This made him think of the other two. Shen Ye and Yu Yongrui. Were they also interesting?

Hao Yun decided to investigate them and suddenly disappeared. Anyone who could have seen Hao Yun up in the sky would have thought he was just an illusion that vanished in the blink of an eye, though a lingering shadow remained for a moment after he disappeared.

What remained was only the echo of his laughter among the sea of clouds and an invisible moon that could not be seen in daylight, yet was always there, observing everything.

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