"What!"
Xu Yi was greatly startled. "They only arrived today? Then hurry and invite them in."
Old Cai's face flushed red, and he stammered for quite a while before Xu Yi finally understood what had happened.
It turned out that ever since he had taken over the Martial Edict, the restrictions on Cold Sun Peak had been changed by it. The Sub-Order Old Cai had originally held, which could open the protective formation, was completely useless for opening the gate.
Earlier, Old Cai had left in such a hurry that he'd forgotten to explain this.
Once he understood the reason, Xu Yi hurriedly took out the Martial Edict and pressed it against the Sub-Order in Old Cai's hand. When he separated them again, the restrictions had been opened.
Old Cai hurried outside. Before long, ten Soul Sensing Realm experts came before Xu Yi and knelt to pay their respects.
Xu Yi was just about to ask why they had taken so long to arrive when he suddenly remembered something. He had left in too much of a hurry to give them Mechanical Birds, and these people were so poor that even though they had received a year's salary in advance from him, they could hardly bring themselves to buy Mechanical Birds.
Xu Yi had crossed thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in three hours, while these people had taken over ten days to make the journey.
Realizing this, Xu Yi felt a little apologetic. He immediately took out ten Mechanical Birds, each with more than ten thousand miles of travel left, and bestowed one on each of them.
He had plenty of Mechanical Birds in his Sumeru Ring. After the battle in Shatai Valley, he had exchanged most of the spoils for Spirit Stones, but kept the Mechanical Birds,