The Crescent Moon Sage observed his senior brother's odd behavior. He had never seen him so flustered, his gaze even evasive.
The more he thought about it, the stranger it seemed. With a flick of two fingers on his right hand, an invisible protective shield materialized around the two, unnoticed by anyone else.
"Just say it—Tianyu, is he truly an abandoned child from the Outside Domain?" the Crescent Moon Sage asked directly, his senior brother's earlier reaction clearly indicating that Ling Tianyu was no ordinary person.
When Starry Elder took on his last disciple, he had declared he would not accept any more apprentices. Yet he eventually brought Ling Tianyu into the fold, leaving all his senior brothers and junior sisters puzzled. Now it seemed clear—there must have been a reason, perhaps even a hidden difficulty behind the decision to disciple Tianyu.
