"This is the Crystal Ancestor's avatar," True Monarch Kong Yu introduced first. "I hear you used Crystal Race trade goods?"
"The Crystal Race?" Hearing this, the many True Venerables quietly raised their guard.
At the critical moment, it was Han Li who spoke, and he sounded very calm. "They attacked us first."
Xiaoyou immediately followed up. "No one said during the trade that we couldn't use those."
"I'm not here to assign blame," Stick sent through divine sense. "The Crystal Race and Cultivators have never been enemies."
"Some misunderstandings are inevitable. I only want to ask how large the Crystal Race group you encountered was."
"Forgive me, Great Monarch," Qu Jianlei said. "I mean no offense, but the Crystal Race... isn't their upper limit the Out-of-Body Realm?"
"I'm an exception," the stick answered with only that, saying no more.
"Senior is from Zhongling World... and Soul-Splitting is impossible outside," True Monarch Kong Yu explained instead. "He is friendly toward the Human Race."
"The group we encountered... wasn't small," Qu Jianlei answered solemnly. "We only established our authority. We didn't slaughter indiscriminately."
"Back then, they surrounded several of us True Venerables," Xiaoyou muttered resentfully. "Luckily, we received rescue."
"Hmm?" Stick immediately perked up on hearing that. "They could actually surround several True Venerables... then they really had something."
The True Venerables on Qu Jianlei's side said nothing. They had something—what does that have to do with us?
"Young friends, can you still find that place?" The Crystal Ancestor's avatar had an odd shape, but its tone was still amiable.
Everyone fell silent again, thinking, Why should we answer that question?
Truly, once heroes were seen often enough, they were still ordinary people. After dealing with Great Monarchs many times, they felt like that was all there was to them, not to