"You know about the collision of the star systems and how the ruins came into being, right?"
Lin Qing nodded. The cleaner had told him about those things.
"There's nothing particularly special about the ruins. They open once a year, and most places have already been explored."
Hua Yao fell silent for a moment, then said solemnly:
"Xingdu, I hope you'll help Tu Mi retrieve that item. It's important to me too."
That surprised Lin Qing. He hadn't expected Hua Yao to be involved.
"Tell me exactly what happened first."
Lin Qing didn't want to retrieve anything for Tu Mi, but Hua Yao was his manager. She had worked hard arranging his bouts at the Blood Arena and handling other matters. If it wasn't too complicated, he could consider helping.
"Tu Mi is my senior sect sister. We belonged to the same sect."
"Later, Space Pirates attacked our sect, and the whole place was engulfed in battle. That was when Tu Mi got the wound on her face. She's refused to heal the scar all these years because she can't forget the hatred she feels over our sect's destruction."
"When our sect finally fell, our master sent us away. She chose to go back and die fighting."
"We'd both grown up in the sect and knew nothing of the dangers among the stars. The first time we boarded a Flying Vessel run by a Spacefaring Company, we were sold."
Lin Qing raised an eyebrow. That company must have been Pearl Interstellar Travel. No wonder Tu Mi had targeted the Flying Vessel he'd taken and insisted on dragging back several True Immortals from the company to torture after winning the fight. She had clearly been taking revenge for what had happened to her.
"We were sold to a Flower Boat. They