Ruan Qiu did not want to agree!
As for the situation within the Floating Continent world, he too was completely in the dark.
But no matter what, there was no questioning the danger within.
It involved the power of the Heavenly Buddha, a mysterious will, and was suspected to be a world of graves... In such a place, Jiang Wuxie, at the Divine Presence Realm, would have no way to protect himself.
How could he nod and send Jiang Wuxie inside?
No matter how freely the Emperor of Qi raised his children, Jiang Wuxie was still one of the three palace lords currently most likely to contend for the dragon throne.
Especially now that he had cultivated the Mortal World Heaven-and-Earth Cauldron and stepped into Divine Presence in a single stride, his momentum had surged, and he was already showing the bearing of an Heir Apparent.
If something went wrong and he truly ended up buried here, how could the Emperor of Qi possibly bear no resentment?
Even if the Emperor of Qi was a peerless ruler of the realm and perhaps would not hold a grudge over this, whenever he thought of his unfortunate son, it would be difficult for him to feel any goodwill toward Ruan Qiu.
When the Eleventh Imperial Prince died, Yan Tu, who commanded the Rain Cutter Army, had been flayed alive!
Yet Jiang Wuxie addressed him as "Director Ruan" and referred to himself as "I, the solitary one." What this showed was not merely resolve, but a demand issued with the status of the Lord of Yangxin Palace!
This could not be considered an order. Even Jiang Wuxie had no authority to order Ruan Qiu about.
But even though Ruan Qiu held an exalted position as Director of the Imperial Observatory, answerable only to