"Shui Ruoxuan has a point."
"By the way, I still don't know your name."
"Allow me to introduce myself first. I'm Lin Gengsheng."
Lin Gengsheng?
Chen Changan glanced at him and said with a smile, "Chen Changan."
"Changan?"
"That's a good name."
"But I'm definitely going to the Star Sea Ruins. If my presence makes any of you uncomfortable, I'll leave."
"I can go there just fine without following you."
"It was one of your people who invited me up here!"
Chen Changan's final remark made his position clear: He hadn't come aboard of his own accord. If one of their people hadn't invited him, who would've wanted to come up?
"Well, the young fellow's got some spirit."
"But do you even know who we are? How dare you talk to us like that?"
"Every one of us standing before you is at the Great World Lord Realm. You're only at the Middle Realm Lord Realm, yet you've got some nerve."
The man wasn't wrong. All six of them had reached the Great World Lord Realm. They were traveling together on this trip to the Star Sea Ruins.
"Everyone, may I have a word?"
"However you look at it, I was the one who invited Chen Changan aboard. You can at least do me the courtesy of letting him stay, can't you?"
"If you're unhappy with Chen Changan, we can split up once we reach the Star Sea Ruins."
"We've already invited him along. It wouldn't be right to send him away now, would it?"
"It's only a matter of traveling the same route. One more person won't make a difference."
Lin Gengsheng stepped in to smooth things over. Seeing that he'd spoken up, the others didn't say anything more.
"That's just how they are, but they mean well."
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