From Lü Yang's memories, Jiang Ping An learned that he did not know the exact identity of the person who had hired their mercenary group.
However, Lü Yang knew that the employer had azure-blue hair and was a member of the Lan Clan Royal Family.
With that clue alone, Jiang Ping An could identify the mastermind.
There were many in the Lan Clan Royal Family who disliked him.
But only one wanted him dead.
Lan Jie.
Back then, hired by the Young Master of Hua Miao Lou, Jiang Ping An had traveled with Lan Jie and the others to the Zhum Civilization Ruins.
That had been his first meeting with Lan Jie.
Within the Zhum Civilization Ruins, two mysterious Mystic Treasures had appeared.
Someone skilled in spatial escape techniques had snatched one of them, the beast hide.
Later, Lan Jie pursued the person who had taken the beast hide.
That Spatial God King had been grievously wounded and left at death's door.
Jiang Ping An had helped that God King and obtained the beast hide in exchange.
After obtaining the beast hide, Lan Jie came looking for him, intending to take it.
But Jiang Ping An refused, and Lan Jie sent people to assassinate him.
That was the first grudge between them.
Later, Jiang Ping An went to the territory of the Electric Eel Demon Race, intending to avenge Lan Shi'er.
Lan Jie personally chased after him and drove him away with his superior cultivation and Five Elements Dao Domain.
Jiang Ping An felt that there was something deeply wrong with Lan Jie.
When he had first encountered Lan Jie, Lan Jie had not displayed the Five Elements Dao Domain.
Yet when they met for the second time, his cultivation had advanced even faster than Jiang Ping An's, and he