Before long, the two of them went inside and packed their things.
Then Jingliu brought Bai Yan to a room filled with miscellaneous items and lightly pressed some hidden mechanism.
At once, a Star-faring vessel appeared from the void. The clutter from before had all been illusions, vanishing the instant the vessel appeared.
"Let's go. We'll pick up a friend first. Having him along will make things much safer."
Bai Yan knew she meant Rochu.
He could now understand a little of how Old Yang felt.
The two boarded the Star-faring vessel. After leaving the planet and traveling through space for quite some time, they finally landed on a fairly prosperous world.
The moment he stepped off the vessel, Bai Yan had barely taken in the scenery when he spotted a blond man in white approaching them with a coffin on his back.
Jingliu nodded to him from afar, then introduced him to Bai Yan. "This is Rochu, an Abundance Path Follower. He made that pendant."
But she suddenly noticed that Bai Yan was looking at Rochu strangely.
"What, have you met him before?"
By then, Rochu had reached them. He first nodded politely to Bai Yan, then asked Jingliu, "A new friend?"
"My last disciple, Bai Yan."
Rochu suddenly understood. "I see—hello, Miss Bai Yan."
"I'm a man. The cross-dressing was for work. I'll change back later."
Ignoring Rochu's stunned expression, Bai Yan continued in his male voice, "Bai Yan, from a remote planet."
"Ah... so you're not from the Xianzhou Alliance?"
"The universe is vast. It's normal for different peoples to have similar cultures," Bai Yan said.
"True." Rochu nodded, then asked, "May I ask what is wrong with me? Why were you looking at me like that?"
"You look exactly like the leader of our organization, and