Mr. Liu Ye smiled. "Sect Master Yuan, there's no need to worry. We're simply bodyguards accompanying Alliance Leader Lu."
Yuan Qiong and the others were stunned. Sensing them carefully, they could feel just how powerful Liu Ye Fei Hua were. They surpassed even the elders of the Heavenly Star Sect and were second only to top experts like the sect master. Yet figures like them were personally protecting Lu Yin—and there were two of them.
Eldest Sister Fei Hua was displeased.
Lu Yin smiled. "Mr. Liu Ye is being modest. They're my elders; it's only by chance that they're traveling with me. Oh, and there's one more person here whom the sect master and the elders have probably heard of: Da Qiu."
"The former Glory Hall candidate?" Yuan Shou asked in surprise.
Elder Yao Shan looked at Da Qiu, astonished. "You've broken through to Star Envoy Level?"
"By luck," Da Qiu replied flatly. "Mr. Lu helped me break through."
At that moment, Lu Yin's standing in everyone's eyes rose even higher, and he seemed all the more mysterious. Three Star Envoy-level protectors traveled with him. Who else in the Fifth Continent could manage that? Even Shang Qing, whom the Glory Hall had nurtured with every resource at its disposal, couldn't match him. And, as it happened, Shang Qing had been defeated by Lu Yin.
Yuan Qiong looked deeply at Lu Yin. He knew a few things already, and the more he thought about them, the more likely it seemed that Lu Yin would become the Fifth Continent's next Ancestor. Elder Gong hadn't said so outright, but perhaps this young man had succeeded in that place.
If that was true, then even accepting him as an honorary disciple was not out of the question. The Heavenly Star Sect could afford to