Sheng Teng shot to his feet and barked sternly, "What kind of joke is this? Impossible! If there's no treasure, then there's no treasure. Why make up such an absurd lie to deceive me? The three of you conduct yourselves like this in the Heavenly Court, and I fear you'll meet an end too terrible to speak of."
Emperor Bai Bo said, "How could I possibly deceive Brother Sheng? To be frank, the person I mentioned who possesses a rare treasure is none other than the only one among our group who wasn't in the Third Realm of Profound Infant. We saw his Mystical Treasure with our own eyes. Brother Sheng only needs to capture him, and you'll know the truth on the spot."
Sheng Teng was overjoyed. "Why didn't you say so earlier?" He immediately activated the flying vessel, turned it around, and pursued Xu Yi's previous location.
He believed what Emperor Bai Bo had said, because Bai Bo had no reason to tell such a lie when it could be exposed at any moment. As for Xu Yi, he wasn't worried in the slightest that he could escape his grasp. Even if Xu Yi had most likely already fled, how could a mere lower-realm cultivator in the Profound Infant Second Realm possibly evade the pursuit of a Starry Sky Vessel?
Sure enough, before long, a figure appeared on the Starry Sky Vessel's crystal screen. Against the boundless starry sky, that shadow looked especially lonely and desolate.
In almost an instant, the hazy figure came into focus. Emperor Bai Bo cried out, "Wait, is that him? How did his perfectly good body turn into a skeleton?"
"It's him. In such a narrow region of space, the odds of two unrelated cultivators appearing at the same time are even smaller