Target: the Sequence Research Institute

Lin Que stole a glance at Shi Jiu.

A flicker of unease crossed his face.

Then he coughed. "This Lord Xuanyi..."

Thud!

The moment the words "Lord Xuanyi" left his mouth,

Xuanyi dropped straight to his knees.

"Lord Lin Que, please don't get me killed!"

"I'm a nobody, a nobody!"

"Not a lord at all—"

Realm Beast King Azure Feather and Realm Beast King Thunder Emperor, who had been exchanging roars with Xuanyi, saw Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu approach.

They hurriedly crawled forward to ingratiate themselves.

Jiang Fu ignored them.

He simply stared at Lin Que without a word.

His stare gave Lin Que the creeps. Uneasily, Lin Que said, "I didn't mean to call him a lord!"

Shi Jiu noticed the look in Jiang Fu's eyes.

She hesitated for a moment.

Then she seemed to understand something as well.

She, too, stared at Lin Que without a word.

Lin Que felt as though two mountains were pressing down on him.

"If there's nothing else here, I'll be on my way..."

Before he had even finished speaking,

Lin Que realized

the air around him seemed to have thickened.

It pinned his body in place.

Realm Beast King Azure Feather puffed out his chest and roared, as if asking for credit. "Roar, roar, roar!"

Lin Que: "..."

He tried to activate his Invisibility Talisman and slip away unseen.

Only to discover

that, under the interference of the forbidden zone's power,

he could no longer sense the Invisibility Talisman on him.

"All right! I'll talk!"

Lin Que sighed. "Azure Feather and Thunder Emperor were asking how to manage a forbidden zone..."

Halfway through,

he saw that Jiang Fu's and Shi Jiu's expressions had not changed at all.

They were still staring at him in silence.

At that moment,

Lin Que felt