Lu Yin sized them up. They kept their heads bowed. Even Time Gui, now a major figure in the Human Yao Domain, could only stand not far away in silence, not daring to make a sound as he waited for instructions.
Lord Mi spoke slowly. "I took everything from you back then. Now I'll return everything I can." As he spoke, eleven Flowing Light Dancing cards appeared in neat rows on the stone table. "For what I can't return, you can settle the score with me. But as I said, the younger generation will get its turn only after our older generation's grudges are settled."
"Some of them died. The ones still alive are all here. Oh, right—except for Ming Zhong. It's gone into hiding, and we haven't found it yet."
Lu Yin looked at the Flowing Light Dancing cards, then swept his gaze over the living beings once more. "You've certainly given me a difficult problem."
Lord Mi didn't seem to mind. "Kill them or spare them—it's your call. No one would dare defy you. Simple."
His words made Time Gui and the others even more uneasy. Who could have imagined that the master of the Time Gate would one day find himself in this position?
Lu Yin swirled his cup. "I left them alive back then, so I never intended to settle things with them. At the time, I thought they might be useful against the Main Dao. But now, it seems I don't need them for that."
Time Gui abruptly raised his head, meeting Lu Yin's gaze.
His pupils contracted, and he bowed his head again.
Lu Yin smiled. "Look back through the past billions of years and see whether they've harmed humanity in the Human Yao Domain. If they haven't, they can keep living. Human Civilization