"What do you mean?" Boren Si replied stiffly.
"Did I not make myself clear enough?" Xi Ye said with a smile. "Since you came to test me, Raine should have given you something before you came, right?"
The three of them looked even more troubled. Boren Si gritted his teeth. "What kind of person do you take Big Brother Raine for? He only wanted us to submit our applications and test you. He never intended for us to actually join your faction. He completely didn't expect you to accept us, all right? Do you think someone like Big Brother Raine would have us do something that betrayed a lord?"
Under the Federation's Celestial God laws, betraying a lord was a serious crime. Once there was evidence of such a thing, the lord could kill the traitor with legitimate cause, no matter which family they came from—even if they were members of the imperial family!
Tia was pale as well. She had actually been terrified when Xi Ye appeared earlier, afraid that he would use what she had said as evidence that they had betrayed a lord.
Once they were saddled with this crime, even if they were not executed, their lives would be ruined!
"Cousin, I... We really didn't do anything..." Emma said with a sob in her voice.
Xi Ye looked gently at little Emma. "I never said you did anything. Don't be nervous. Just answer my question. Did Raine give you anything?"
"Just some food supplies..." Emma looked as though she was about to cry. "Big Brother Raine was afraid we would be mistreated here and that it would affect our cultivation, so he only gave us some supplies..."
"Oh? Is that so?" Xi Ye looked at the other two.
Boren Si stared at Xi Ye with an