"Titanium Twenty-Six misunderstood me. Thank you for saving my life, Senior! One day, I will be crushed to powder and shattered to pieces in repayment for your grace."
After viewing the images transmitted into his mind, this Golden Man clansman dropped to his knees before Shen Mo with a thud. As he made hand gestures resembling seal incantations, he spoke his words of gratitude in a deep, muffled voice.
Shen Mo understood the meaning of this gesture. He nodded slightly, then swept his sleeve and helped the Golden Man to his feet.
"Twenty-Six, how did you cross the Sea of Buried Immortals, spanning tens of millions of miles, to reach this place?"
Among the extraterrestrial Golden Man race, newborn Golden Men of the same generation took a certain spirit-metal deposit as their surname and their order of birth as their name.
For example, the one Shen Mo had rescued at Golden Light Ridge was called Zinc Seventy-Five. He was considered an uncle of the Golden Man before him, though the two were not far apart in age.
In the Forbidden Land of the Golden Man race, calling out "Twenty-Six" might draw responses from several Golden Men of different generations at once. But at present, Titanium Twenty-Six was likely the only Golden Man in the entire Heaven-Patrolling Domain, so there was nothing improper about Shen Mo addressing him thus.
"Reporting to Senior, about a year ago, I obeyed an elder's orders and went to Mount Yuanji, three hundred miles east of our clan grounds, to gather metal ore..."
After questioning him for a while, Shen Mo found that his earlier conjecture had been more or less correct.
Titanium Twenty-Six had indeed been captured by Daoist Temple envoys visiting the Red Flame Domain. The one who had acted should have been an