Shi Yue had cleared Shen Yudie's doubts about him last time by passing her a message through Yin'er. But now that he had been attacked again, she was once more questioning whether his identity was genuine.
Shi Yue had ties to the True Dragon Clan. After the Yanluo Hall ambushed him once before, members of the True Dragon Clan had warned them. By rights, Yanluo Hall shouldn't have dared attack him again. Yet barely a dozen years had passed before Shi Yue was attacked once more. That meant Yanluo Hall had paid no heed to the True Dragon Clan.
But that made no sense at all. Though the True Dragon Clan was no longer as glorious as it had once been, it was still far beyond the reach of a faction like Yanluo Hall. Could Yanluo Hall have been acting on the orders of one of the immortal clans?
Would members of the Five Great Immortal Clans openly offend the True Dragon Clan over Shi Yue? Surely not! As ancient powers in the Cultivation World, they would all show one another some respect. They wouldn't go so far as to kill each other's young disciples.
There was another point that didn't add up. According to eyewitnesses, Shi Yue hadn't had any other guards with him in Ziyang Market Town,
so where was the Void Refining Stage guard who usually accompanied him? And hadn't the True Dragon Clan assigned an expert to protect Shi Yue? He had already been targeted for assassination once.
Everything pointed to something being wrong with Shi Yue's identity.
If he truly belonged to the True Dragon Clan, the people of Yanluo Hall would never have dared provoke him, let alone attack him again. Even with the backing of an immortal clan, they couldn't openly make another