First Audience with Birth

Afros and Hu Xuan were both stunned, especially Hu Xuan.

Afros was a prisoner, after all. Even though he had already established contact with his Lord of Grace, the identities of the "prince of the Cold Palace" and the "imperial princess before the throne" were ultimately different.

Thus, rather than addressing the two Birth believers, what Cheng Shi had said was more like using this pretext to ask Hu Xuan.

He had merely considered that if he asked Hu Xuan about this in private, she would certainly agree to give it a try. That would leave him with one less opportunity to demand a bargaining chip from Afros. But now, as long as Afros wanted a response from his Lord of Grace, he would first have to smooth things over with Hu Xuan and get this little sister of Birth to help him secure such an opportunity.

That said, Cheng Shi had not said this to demand a bargaining chip or help Hu Xuan. He genuinely wanted to pay Birth a visit.

This was not a spur-of-the-moment idea. He had been planning it for some time.

So far, Cheng Shi's understanding of the Source Beginning was limited to Afros's descriptions and Destiny's warnings. Aside from the impression that this "true Creator" was someone one must not think about too deeply, he knew almost nothing about it.

Yet everything he knew now pointed to that *Being as the "experimenter" behind this entire Slice Universe experiment. Thus, Cheng Shi had always wanted to know what kind of existence that *Being was in the eyes of the gods.

There was no way he could get an answer by asking those two from Nothingness. As it happened, the other two Lords of Grace after the fusion were each busier than the last.

As for