Old Grudges
Chi Xia smiled. "Don't be nervous. I mean you no harm."
Seeing that Dugu Qian and the others still looked wary, Chi Xia continued, "Almost everyone in the Eleven Great Worlds knows that the Heavenly Gathering Vein was seized by the Lord of Nine Nether. Only two kinds of people wouldn't know: those cut off from news, and those who aren't from this world at all, but came from somewhere beyond it. You're all so close to Bi Fan that the first possibility is out of the question. So you can only be the latter."
Dugu Qian and the others were taken aback. They clearly hadn't expected that to be the clue that gave them away.
But since they'd been found out, Dugu Qian stopped hiding it and admitted outright that they had come from another world.
Chi Hong marveled that this explained why they had appeared directly in the forbidden area of the Flamefire Mountain Range. They had torn through space and come from beyond this world.
As she spoke, her gaze grew even more curious. She said she hadn't thought anyone from the outside could cultivate to such a level, and as she said it, she looked at Xuanyuan Lian with particular astonishment.
Suddenly, Chi Hong cried out in surprise. If Dugu Qian and the others had come from beyond this world, did that mean Bi Fan had come from there too?
A boy who'd entered from a lower-level space had actually become the lord of a state, repeatedly defeated powerful cultivators from various states, and stirred up a storm at the Heavenly Gathering Vein. To her, it was utterly unbelievable.
Chi Xia didn't show it, but she was just as astonished inside.
Now that everything was out in the open, and Chi Xia didn't seem