"Headmaster... Master... You..." Mu Yuyi stared at the young man seated upon the throne, too stunned to speak.
He had imagined many possible scenes after entering the ninth floor. He might encounter Heavenly Mystery Academy's most peerless genius, or perhaps some legendary figure from thousands of years ago, but he had never imagined that he would meet Lu Boyue here!
"Are you surprised?" Lu Boyue looked at Mu Yuyi with great interest. "It seems that I should now be the headmaster of our Heavenly Mystery Academy. More than two thousand years have passed, so I ought to be very powerful by now, right?"
"I..." Faced with the Lu Boyue before him, Mu Yuyi did not know what to say for a moment.
If not for everything that had happened on the eighth floor, Lu Boyue would still have been his respected master, that kind and benevolent old man. However, after hearing what the young girl Qing Huan had said on the eighth floor, and after becoming a Yin-Yang Master himself, his perception had changed greatly.
Especially now that Mu Yuyi had cultivated the Yin-Yang Scripture, his senses toward many changes around him had become extraordinarily subtle. He could sense this young puppet Lu Boyue's goodwill toward him, but within that goodwill was an aura that made him deeply uncomfortable.
Mu Yuyi could be certain that the Lu Boyue before him was far more than a mere puppet. Moreover, encountering Lu Boyue on the ninth floor had elevated the complexity of the entire matter to another level.
"There is actually nothing to be surprised about. The headmasters of Heavenly Mystery Academy all come from among its disciples. Back then, I too climbed step by step to my current strength and status. Having come to the ninth floor of the Heavenly Mystery