Qu Jianlei did not get carried away by True Venerable Ke Lin's praise.
He said solemnly, "Your methods were the foundation. If we'd had to divine our way here step by step, we would've died of exhaustion."
That was the truth. Without Ke Lin guiding them the whole way, the difficulty of searching with an aura as tiny as a grain of rice would have soared for their team.
Nothing else needed saying; the time alone would have multiplied severalfold, all kinds of costs would have risen with it, and the risks would have been higher as well.
But Ke Lin did not look pleased. Instead, he asked, "I'd like to ask—why does True Venerable Han Li listen to you too?"
"He's the captain," Han Li answered very simply.
That was clearly nonsense. The only reason True Venerable Qu had become captain was that he had provided the warship and had extensive operating experience.
Obeying the captain in everything was a rule of the Mortal World, not the Cultivation World!
Never mind anything else—if one more Spirit Severing Grand Lord were on the warship and had a disagreement with the captain, guess who would have the final say?
"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to," Ke Lin said, somewhat displeased. "Or are you saying I have to pay a price to hear it too?"
"Let's put it this way. He is favored by this world," Han Li said with a straight face. "Is that reason enough?"
That could barely count as part of the reason. The key was that he had seen with his own eyes the process of Creation entering Qu Jianlei's body.
And this world was True Venerable Qu's home ground. If he had not had enough confidence, why would he have corrected his