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Unable to answer, anyone watching would only think I had panicked at the sight of someone of high rank. So Immortal Lord He immediately stepped forward and said, "Old Marshal, this is Immortal Xia, the one here to sell the Star Box. He came from the Great Wasteland in the north. Since he gradually stopped finding anything good there, he turned toward our central and western regions."
"Oh, the one you mentioned before? He looks somewhat familiar. Have I seen him somewhere?" the masked old marshal in blue robes asked doubtfully.
My heart jolted. Could my disguise be so poorly done that he recognized me at a glance? But after a moment of instinctive hesitation, I immediately said, "Greetings, Grand Marshal. You saw me once outside the city, which is why I seem familiar!"
After I redirected the old marshal's attention to what had happened outside the city, he nodded. "So that's how it is. I think I remember now."
"I was with Miao Yongzhi at the time." I hurriedly explained again. The old marshal gave another "Oh," but quickly said, "Let me see your Star Box."
I suppose I've narrowly escaped disaster in front of everyone. But if I hand him the Star Box, do I still need to run?
If I refused to hand it over, escaping through the sea of stars would be extremely difficult. Even with Spatial Compression, our cultivation levels were nearly equal, so I could not pull very far ahead. Besides, they had numbers on their side and many methods at their disposal—swift passageways, for example, or even more powerful Dao Artifacts for transportation.
I thought that carrying this thing around amounted to hauling a useless rock anyway, so I might as well take it out and see what happened.
Looking at the