"Does your academy have an instructor named Hao Yu?" Xia Yuan asked. His tone was far from polite. In his eyes, Wu Taibai was still a disciple, nothing more.
Wu Taibai replied, "There is a Mr. Hao Yu."
"Test his strength. I want to know everything about him," Xia Yuan ordered.
A flicker crossed Wu Taibai's eyes. "Understood. But perhaps you could ask Xia Shen Guang directly, Senior. Xia Shen Guang has a grudge against Hao Yu."
"Shen Guang has a grudge against him? What happened?" Xia Yuan asked, puzzled. His first thought was that Yu Hao had gone out of his way to cause trouble for the Xia Family. He was bold indeed, daring to pick a fight with them.
Wu Taibai recounted what had happened between Xia Shen Guang and Lu Yin. Xia Yuan was stunned when he heard the story. "That Hao Yu has the strength of a Star Envoy? And he's a Great Original Formation Master?"
"Correct," Wu Taibai replied.
"Are you sure?" Xia Yuan asked, shocked.
Wu Taibai answered with certainty. "Absolutely."
Xia Yuan's thoughts raced. By his calculations, Yu Hao couldn't possibly have reached the Star Envoy level. How had he managed it? He was of the same generation as Shen Fei and the others. When Xia Zhitong had married into Jade City, it had only been a little over twenty years ago. Back then, Yu Hao had been a good-for-nothing. He hadn't even been good at cultivation, let alone become a Star Envoy or a Great Original Formation Master.
Reaching the Great Original Formation Master level in formation deciphering was far more difficult than cultivation. There was no way this could be Yu Hao.
Xia Yuan contacted Xia Zhitong again and asked her everything about Yu Hao. She, too, was baffled by how