Bai Lu was stunned. How had this person appeared in her home?
Li Qi, meanwhile, sized Bai Lu up.
Bai Lu's looks were ordinary, the sort of face that vanished into a crowd. As a fifth-rank cultivator, she had not deliberately made herself beautiful, because there was no point. At her level, appearance truly was not something worth caring about.
If one was born good-looking, there was no need to change it.
People like Li Qi and Shen Shuibi basically used their natural appearances. Some people did enjoy sculpting themselves a beautiful face, but beings of the same level could tell whether it was natural or not. Few cared about that, though. It was purely a matter of personal mood, like putting on makeup.
Seeing Bai Lu's expression, Li Qi made tea.
After looking her over, Li Qi handed her a cup, picked up some of Bai Lu's files, and spoke to her.
With the manner of someone lecturing an elementary school student whose reactions were a little slow, Li Qi said, "I've read your report. You're trying to resolve the issue with this cave-heaven now, right?"
Li Qi pointed at the matter described in the report.
The report described an incident. Bai Lu had used secret means to transport a cave-heaven containing roughly 1.5 billion people here, but during transport, a problem with the seal had disrupted the cave-heaven's atmospheric structure.
Its Fire Qi had fallen out of balance.
The level of Fire Qi had risen sharply. If it were allowed to continue rising, the people in that cave-heaven would die, so it could not be allowed to keep increasing.
But stopping its rise carried an enormous risk. If the intervention failed, the entire planet might be frozen over, because this Fire Qi kept the cave-heaven warm through the