After completing the handover with Yan Xiaowu, Lu Ye followed his usual practice and gave a tenth of the proceeds to the Night Owl who had provided the intelligence. Then he found a place to refine Dao Bones and increase his strength.
Across Variegated, the major war zones churned with unrest, battles never ceasing and casualties mounting on all sides. This was a rhythm that had never changed throughout Variegated's ancient history—it had been so in the past, was so now, and would remain so in the future.
Unless, one day, the three great powers fought an earth-shaking decisive battle and determined who lived and who died.
Amid such a grand tide, there were also small ripples rising and falling. Compared to the situation across all of Variegated, these ripples were nothing, but in certain specific regions or organizations, they drew considerable attention.
A formidable Dao Entry had recently appeared within Falcon!
His code name was Owl. Few had seen him, and most who knew of him only knew that he was a young Human Race cultivator wielding a Dao Artifact short hammer.
He was considered formidable because, ever since joining Falcon, he had accepted only red-level missions, as if missions of any other level were beneath his notice.
One had to know that few people dared touch red-level missions. Even Dao Entry cultivators as strong as Yan Hong had returned empty-handed, and no one was willing to waste time on such missions.
Yet after Owl joined Falcon, one of those long-standing red missions was crossed off almost every so often.
On average, he completed one red-level mission each month.
For many years, red-level missions had remained unresolved. But after his appearance, they dwindled one after another. More than half a year had passed, and he had completed seven or