Was Xi Ming a strange... fellow?
Both belonged to the Mo Sect. One was a genius mechanism girl, caretaker of the "Bright Ghost" puppet. The other was a true inheritor of the Mohist School, one of the overseers of the Heavenly Secret Tower. According to Xi Ming, they were siblings without blood ties, both orphans, two sufferers commiserating with each other.
Yet Xi Ming was willing to pluck stars and seize the moon for Xi Xiangyi, while Xi Xiangyi treated him with such distance. The circumstances were rather thought-provoking.
Jiang Wang watched Xi Xiangyi's retreating back, lost in thought.
Beigong Ke stood at a distance and did not come over.
It was as though he still remained at the distance from back when Jiang Wang had pressed a spear to his throat, then released him.
Deliberately avoiding Jiang Wang's gaze, he waited until Xi Xiangyi had finished her "communication" before stepping forward and taking his seat with her.
Zhuang Kingdom and Yong Kingdom were as sharply divided as the Jing and Wei rivers, with Suolong Pass and Yinge City as their boundary.
Even in the Dragon Palace, Lin Zhengren and Beigong Ke tried their best not to sit near each other. The sight of one another was enough to breed disgust.
Still, there was no mutual provocation or brawling. The Dragon Palace was packed with Prodigies today; it was not their turn to stir up storms and waves. Of course, if Xi Xiangyi were willing to step forward, that would be another matter.
In truth, Lin Zhengren sitting here today was much like Zhuang Kingdom's awkward position.
Zhuang Kingdom's scheming at the Yellow River Assembly had amounted to tearing its face off with Sheng Kingdom. The reasons Lin Zhengren could still sit down and chat with Sheng Xuehuai today were,