Aftermath

"Jin Xiao?"

Baili Qingfeng was stunned. "Did Senior Shouzhen have a friend by that name? I'll call Senior Shouzhen later and ask him."

"Right, weren't you in the Aurora Empire, little brother? How did you get back?"

"I received a call from Prime Minister Yasso saying that a group of vicious enemies was heading toward Xia, looking to cause me trouble. I was worried about what was happening here, so I rushed over at the first opportunity..."

As he spoke, something stirred in his heart, and his gaze immediately fell on Gu Ta's corpse. "This man... was already a top-tier powerhouse. Could he be one of those people?"

"Anyway, they didn't look like good people to me. They had no idea how to cherish the fruits of other people's labor."

Zhao Si's words were filled with loathing for those people.

"I'll make a call and ask."

As Baili Qingfeng spoke, he took out his phone and dialed.

The other side seemed to have been waiting for his call. Someone answered almost immediately. "Qingfeng, this is Shouzhen."

"I was in too much of a hurry when I received the call earlier, so I didn't ask clearly who those enemies were. Could Senior Shouzhen explain everything to me in detail?"

"Of course. We wanted to tell you long ago, but you hung up too quickly at the time..."

"I was too worried about what was happening in Xia."

Baili Qingfeng sounded a little embarrassed.

"The enemies who came to attack Xia don't belong to any faction in our world. They came from a place in the Second World called the Blood Orchid Duchy..."

"The Blood Orchid Duchy?"

Baili Qingfeng was stunned.

So there was no mistake after all.

"Yes, the Blood Orchid Duchy. Over the past dozen hours, I've learned the details