Yu Songhai, Strategist of the World

Jiang Wang stood in the wind, feeling a little disheveled.

If he really were Yu Songhai, accepting Chi Lu as his adoptive father would be an excellent way out. He could go from an outsider who had only recently joined to a true core member of the Azure Cloud Pavilion.

In the entire Azure Cloud Pavilion, beneath the Sect Master, the four Zongshou held the highest positions.

Chi Lu had no children, either. From then on, his standing would be on par with Feng Ming's.

But the problem was that Jiang Wang was not the pitiful last heir of the Xiyun Sword Sect, nor was he Yu Songhai, who was still miserably trapped in a cave, waiting for Jiang Wang.

He was a prodigy of his generation, the top Soaring Dragon cultivator in Qi State, and a dual-Supernatural Power Inner Palace cultivator. Among his peers in the entire Yong Kingdom, there was hardly anyone who could reliably beat him. How could he be content to accept an Outer Tower cultivator as his adoptive father in a tiny Azure Cloud Pavilion?

How could a Flood Dragon be trapped in shallow waters?

Even in a fight to the death, Chi Lu, a Zongshou of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, might not be his match.

But if he refused, with a Zongshou making things difficult for him inside the Azure Cloud Pavilion, he would only get farther and farther from the lost structure...

"What have I done to deserve such regard from you, Lord Zongshou?"

Jiang Wang chose his words carefully. "But Young Master Feng Ming and I share the same ideals, and Zongshou Feng has always thought highly of me. They brought me into the Azure Cloud Pavilion. If I switched allegiance, I would feel uneasy about it. It would hardly be the