Bai Xiaowen closed his eyes slightly and reached out with his mind to the Blue Star Lords' Group.
With a swish, the group's interface opened before his eyes.
Unread messages from the past month scrolled by, though there were not many of them.
Several were addressed to [@Lu Wang-West River]. Leaders of various fief alliances had invited him to join and asked whether he was interested. But Bai Xiaowen had been in the Shaoding Plane at the time, unable to connect to the Blue Star Lords' Group, so he had never seen them.
Most of the invitations came from Pan-Asia, including "Taizong-Great Tang" and "Meng Chuan-Heavenly Prefecture." There was also one from the Radiance Society: a lord called "Walord-Daryl" had sent him a message.
When they received no reply, the lords guessed that Bai Xiaowen had gone to the Spirit Realm and let the matter rest for the time being.
Farther down, the most common messages were lords calling out that they needed some item or other, followed by another lord offering to trade.
The details of those trades were never posted in the public chat, of course. They would have moved to private messages.
Bai Xiaowen could find no useful information in the public chat.
Just as he was about to scroll to the bottom and skip the rest, he spotted something juicy...
[Group message: Great Xia Fief has declared war on Gondor Fief!]
The declaration drew a host of lurking lords into the conversation. More than a hundred messages appeared within a minute.
Most were there to watch the drama. Only the lords with a real stake in the matter made any serious effort to mediate.
Bai Xiaowen read on.
Great Xia Fief belonged to the Pan-Asia Alliance, while Gondor Fief belonged to the Divine Court. Their conflict