"Master, there was something I forgot to tell you."
"Whatever it is, say it all at once!"
Jiao Bai said impatiently. It was clear that the odds of him treating me as a discarded pawn were not low. My prospects might look promising, but in reality, they still needed time and resources to build up. Compared to the life of the Greedy Star Dragon, that was nothing.
"Ming Tian Longzhao. Have you heard of him, Master?" I steered the conversation toward the topic.
There was an unmistakable silence on Jiao Bai's end. Only after quite some time did he say, "Great Luotian among the Star Lords—in other words, the current Dragon Ancestor Ming Tian—was called Longzhao back when he was still a Star Lord. Why? Have you heard something about him?"
Jiao Bai had originally been a Star Lord as well, but after transforming into Sky Grass, he had grown closer to a Child Spirit.
"The space I opened up using the Star Formation Rubik's Cube—Gou Huan said it was created by the Dragon Ancestor's hand." I gave him a reminder.
Gou Huan had of course never said any such thing. I had simply made it up to test him.
"What are you getting at?"
"Master, what I mean is, that Greedy Star Dragon is guarding the Star Formation Rubik's Cube, and the cube belongs to the Dragon Ancestor. Could the two of them be connected somehow? If we kill that old dragon, I'm afraid it might bring down some karma..." I probed from the side.
The other end fell silent again. It seemed my train of thought had indeed led him into a dead end.
If there really was a karmic connection, then even a Child Spirit of the Heavenly Grass Constellation would have to tremble.
"Are you saying