Little Fatty pointed at Qiong Xi'er, trembling. "O-our ancestor?" He had seen portraits of her. She was one of the Qiong Family's oldest ancestors. Was she still alive?
Lu Yin rubbed his temples. "Don't worry. I'll compensate you."
Qiong Xi'er glared at Lu Yin. "Ming Gui came here to cause trouble for us. Now, though, it seems unlikely she'll come after us. Still, be careful. Don't let her find you." Then she suddenly frowned. "Wait, weren't you supposed to be an ordinary person? How could you destroy the Universe Framework? Have you recovered your strength?"
Lu Yin sighed. "Sorry, no. I used up everything I had in one go."
Qiong Xi'er studied him for a moment, then broke into a smile. She liked teasing her maids, but there was no denying her spirited beauty. "Stop pretending with me. You think I don't know what kind of person you are? Wang Wen and Wei Rong are a pair of foxes, and you're no different."
"Anyway, you've played the Alliance into the ground. You're responsible for that."
"And don't you dare kill that Little Fatty. Our family is counting on him to carry on the bloodline."
After ending the call, Lu Yin looked at the Logic Net. "The radiance is gone, but the Logic Net still works. Does that mean its central hub is separate from the radiance?"
The others exchanged glances. They hadn't considered that.
Both the Logic Net and the radiance had been built by the Wei Luo Civilization, which Lord Mi had personally directed. They couldn't see through it.
"Master, where are we going now?" Tuo Lin asked.
Lu Yin gazed toward the vast Disorderly Heaven. In the distance stood a Mother Tree. It looked enormous from here, since any Mother Tree could support an entire universe. But from