While the battle between Pink Haired Girl and Xiao Xiao Bai unfolded outside, Bai Zhi, guided by Little Cocoon, had already arrived at the very center of the Crimson Space.
Within a space that was almost entirely blood-red, he saw a figure tightly bound at the very center by Nine Layers of Chains. By the time he arrived, four of those layers were rapidly melting away like ice and snow beneath the warm winter sun.
"Are you one of the speechless ones?"
Just as Bai Zhi was about to step closer for a better look, a voice suddenly sounded beside him. Immediately afterward, a human face covered in cracks abruptly appeared before him.
"No, I'm one of the Empire's people."
Glancing at the face before him, Bai Zhi stopped and casually made something up.
"The Empire? How did you get in without my permission?"
The face darkened.
"I don't recall granting you any authority. Whoever you are, get the hell—"
"Authority? You mean this?"
Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow slightly and snapped his fingers.
The next moment, with that motion, the oppressive deep-space surroundings instantly transformed into a boundless Star Sea.
"Supreme Imperial Authority... Which of the Mechanical Empire's seventy-two Princes are you?"
After a brief daze at the change in their surroundings, the face's voice abruptly became haughty.
"And who gave you permission to set foot in my territory?"
"A pile of Dry Bones in a tomb should stop barking so fiercely."
Bai Zhi gave the other party a glance, his expression dismissive.
"Are all the Mechanical Empire's Princes this brainless?"
It wasn't as if he had never dealt with Disciples before. The one in the Shan Hai Realm had died thoroughly enough; although the one before him seemed to hold a slightly higher position, its brain still didn't