Inside Azure Palace, the host and guests took their seats around the long dining table.
Yin Luo sat at the head of the table, while Uncle Duan stood silently behind her like a shadow.
Yin Luo's crisp voice rang out. "So, the Ghost Sedan brought you from the starry sky to the Star Abyss, and now you can't go back?"
"Exactly!"
"Then that works out perfectly!" Yin Luo perked up. "I was worried something might happen to you before I found you. But since you came here on your own, just stay. That saves me from having to search everywhere for you after your starry sky shatters."
Lu Ye frowned. Being protected by a powerhouse like Yin Luo in the Star Abyss was certainly a good thing, but some matters had to be clarified.
He asked, "May I ask, Miss Yin Luo, where did you learn of me and Nine Provinces? And why were you looking for me?"
Yin Luo hugged the cloth doll in her arms and pouted as she thought. "I was entrusted by someone. Before he left, he told me to remain here. When the Star Abyss Gate opened, I was to find you somehow and protect you."
"Entrusted by someone? Who?" Lu Ye was utterly astonished. The person capable of making Yin Luo wait here could not possibly have been a cultivator from the starry sky. Yet Lu Ye had never had any particularly close dealings with cultivators of the Star Abyss, much less a powerhouse at Yin Luo's level.
"Azure Lord. Don't you know him?" Yin Luo looked at him curiously.
Lu Ye slowly shook his head. None of the people he knew was called Azure Lord. But on second thought, Azure Lord was likely not a name, but a title.
Azure Lord... Lu Ye's