Prince Bei was about to say something when Lu Yin looked at him calmly. "You're not expecting me to testify on Young Prince Qing's behalf, are you?"
Prince Bei met Lu Yin's gaze, and his heart sank. Right—how had he even thought of that?
Imperial Brother had been imprisoned by this man. How could he possibly ask him to let him out?
"No, Alliance Leader Lu, you've misunderstood," Prince Bei said awkwardly.
Lu Yin glanced around. "You said the Impermanence poison came from a strange flower that appeared in a spatial rift. Where is the flower?"
"Imperial Brother carries it with him, naturally," Prince Bei replied.
Lu Yin left. He took most of the resources in the imperial treasury; the few that remained were things he had no interest in. "Have Xiao Fa from that little town come see me."
Since the upheaval at the imperial palace, people from every city on Divine Gu Continent had tried to keep their distance from it. Still, they had not left. They were waiting to see how things would develop.
Xiao Fa was brought over soon, accompanied by three young people: one woman and two men. Like Xiao Fa, the two men seemed timid and ill at ease. Only the woman dared steal a glance at Lu Yin, though she quickly lowered her head again.
Lu Yin looked at Xiao Fa. "Can Wireless Gu really ignore distance?"
Xiao Fa nodded timidly. "Yes."
"You don't even know what the Star Source Universe is. What makes you so sure it can ignore distance?" Lu Yin asked curiously.
Xiao Fa mustered his courage and looked up to meet Lu Yin's eyes. "What is distance?"
Lu Yin had not expected him to ask that. "You tell me."
Xiao Fa answered earnestly, "For an ordinary person, crossing Gu