Ever since deciding to join the Sword Pavilion, the Ancestor of the Yun Family had been an important target Lu Yang was determined to thoroughly control with a Puppet on Strings.
The reason was simple.
Though the Cloud Clan had fallen on hard times and the Ancestor of the Yun Family was merely at Foundation Establishment Early Stage, the Cloud Clan's origins were far from ordinary. Tracing back their ancestry, they had once enjoyed great glory.
The Cloud Clan had once produced a Sword Pavilion sect leader, a Golden Core True Lord. That Golden Core True Lord had perished in a Millennial Calamity, slain by a Golden Core Middle Stage True Lord of the Sacred Sect whose cultivation was profound. Not only had his Grotto-Heaven been destroyed, even his soul had failed to escape.
After that, the Cloud Clan declined.
By the generation of the Ancestor of the Yun Family, they had completely fallen into a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan. Even their position as one was now precarious.
But no matter what, there was still a thread of old incense-bond between them.
The direct lineage of a former Golden Core True Lord might attract no attention in the Sacred Sect, but in the Sword Pavilion, it was a considerable advantage.
At the very least, the Ancestor of the Yun Family was qualified to have an audience with the sect leader!
The Sword Pavilion was unlike the Sacred Sect. The Sacred Sect's True Lords remained in seclusion year-round, and its affairs were generally handled by the Great True Persons under them, with someone like Chongguang acting as deputy sect leader.
The Sword Pavilion, however, was personally managed by its True Lords.
Yet the Ancestor of the Yun Family, a mere Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator, could have an audience with a