Thousand Machine Strange Performance ignored Soft Universe Clone as it left, staring at Chang Tian with burning eyes. "Wonderful! You actually brought me a human from the Celestial Eye Clan. This is perfect."
"The Celestial Eye Clan? I think they were the Fourth Barrier during the Nine-Base era," Lu Yin said. He couldn't be completely ignorant, after all.
Thousand Machine Strange Performance nodded. "The Fourth Barrier was a very unusual human race. They had a Third Eye, and I've always wanted to find a living member of the Celestial Eye Clan and study it. Unfortunately, I never found one all these years. Rou Shi Zong Xun is quite clever, though. It brought this fellow to me as soon as it found him. It didn't know he was from the Celestial Eye Clan, but I'm interested in any human."
"No wonder you took an interest in me," Lu Yin said.
Thousand Machine Strange Performance didn't answer. It kept staring at Chang Tian as though he were a priceless treasure.
Lu Yin looked at Chang Tian, his heart heavy. Chang Tian had been captured, and Lu Yin didn't know what to do.
He was Qing Yun's biological father and Shocking Gate Supreme Lord's lover. He had helped them back in the Eternal Life Civilization, and he'd even been willing to abandon the Eternal Life Civilization to live with Shocking Gate Supreme Lord in the Threefold Universe.
Feeling guilty toward Qing Yun, he'd stolen a section of the Eternal Life Vine and given it to Shocking Gate Supreme Lord.
Without that section of the Eternal Life Vine, Shocking Gate Supreme Lord would have died in that battle in the Threefold Universe.
If he could, Lu Yin truly wanted to rescue Chang Tian.
Thousand Machine Strange Performance continued examining Chang Tian. Suddenly, it took