Reckless

Theron met Ironvale's gaze calmly.

"I killed Beifong at Eighth Bronze Resonance. What do you think I can do now that I'm at the Ninth?"

Ironvale hardly seemed to react to this, but that didn't stop others from being shocked. This detail seemed to have slipped the minds of most.

At the time, Beifong was already Quasi-Silver; he was just waiting for the perfect opportunity for a flawless breakthrough. By joining the Obsidian Eclipse Sect, he would have gained access to a wider range of Echoes to choose from. That was likely his main goal.

With the capital of the stolen methods of the Luminescent Moon Sect, he would have had the leverage to demand something quite great as well.

Though, thinking back, if the Patriarch could get his hands on something like the Black Limbo Tortoise, then what could he have not gotten for the sake of his foster son?

It just went to show that even the youth wasn't free from his own father's schemes.