"Teacher, I have a question. How could he have been strong enough, at just sixteen, to escape the pursuit of the Chu Yun Empire's elite forces...?"
Nalan Yanran watched the figure racing down the road, thinking about what Yun Yun had said. A question couldn't help but rise in her mind...
As Nalan Yanran's teacher, Yun Yun naturally had no intention of keeping anything from her. After a brief moment of thought, she told Nalan Yanran what she knew so far.
Yun Yun said, "About that, there's a rumor that when Wu Chu was ten, a third-tier magical beast dragged him into the Magical Beast Mountain Range..."
"A third-tier magical beast?! That's equivalent to a Da Dou Shi's strength, isn't it? Why would it leave the mountain range? And how could it snatch someone and drag them into the Magical Beast Mountain Range right under the Chu Yun Empire's guards' noses...?"
After hearing Yun Yun's explanation, Nalan Yanran's confusion wasn't cleared up. If anything, it left her with several more enormous question marks...
Yun Yun said, "Mm... that's just what the rumor says. Whether it's true or not, never mind that for now. What we can be sure of is that Wu Chu came out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range unharmed three months later..."
Nalan Yanran said, "So Wu Chu must have had some fortuitous encounter in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. It greatly increased his strength, leading to that massacre six years later..."
"No, it wasn't that simple."
Hearing Yun Yun's denial, Nalan Yanran began to understand.
After all, it was already absurd for a ten-year-old child to live alone in the Magical Beast Mountain Range for three months and come out unharmed. There was no way nobody would have had designs on Wu Chu, who was barely