Qu Jianlei could not help smiling faintly at the Third Pavilion Lord's expression. "I said I meant no offense. It was only an analogy."
"That analogy..." True Immortal San He shook his head helplessly, then cautiously asked, "It really was only an analogy?"
"It really was." Qu Jianlei nodded. He was not the sort of person who liked making careless jokes, nor did he have any interest in teasing fools.
"Wen Yu didn't say much more, and I didn't want to calculate too rashly... It might alert the other side."
He did indeed have such concerns. The consequences of calculating an Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon were already extremely serious; how much more so an Immortal Venerable with even more methods at their disposal? The two spoke for a while longer. It was clear that the Third Pavilion Lord was quite interested in Wen Yu's purpose for this trip.
Yet the more interested he was, the more cautious Qu Jianlei became. Why had Transformation Master Wen Yu been so careful? Because the matter was too significant.
Still, he could share some of the information he had calculated himself.
For instance, the black tentacles' ability to breach the Space Barrier this time was not because there was a weak point in space, but because it involved the Luck of this realm.
For unknown reasons—very likely related to the Encircle Devil Grand Array and the research into Heavenly Demons—the Luck in the Red Leaf Ridge region had been fluctuating frequently.
This might not necessarily be a bad thing. In the past, Qu Jianlei would not have calculated something like this, as it could be considered disrespectful toward the Boundary Realm.
But for some reason, Luck had actually taken part in this breach of the Space Barrier.
Qu Jianlei did not believe that the mastermind