The lie I told back then is probably coming back to haunt me!
Nie Yun shook his head and rubbed his brow, utterly at a loss.
"What happened?" Nie Tong did not understand.
"When I won the match against Prince Duobo at Red River Gate, I put you into the Storage World, so you didn't know what happened afterward! The trouble I mentioned comes from that!" Nie Yun explained with a bitter smile. "At the time, Prince Duobo said we were ascenders. Elder Hong Yuan and the Red River Gate Master believed him and trapped me, intending to kill me! With no other choice in that urgent moment, I told a lie!"
"I said I was the missing prince of Puntian Great Emperor, and that Prince Duobo had come to Red River Gate not to seek the Red River Spirit Fruit, but to kill me! This was a dispute between princes, so they should stay out of it..."
"Uh?" Nie Tong blinked. "You just mentioned Elder Hong Yuan... Could that Perfected Emperor Realm expert have been him? If it was him, then your identity as a 'prince' has been exposed?"
"Yes!"
Nie Yun nodded.
That was precisely what Wu Xun's message had meant.
"So what if it was exposed? At most, he'll find a way to cause us trouble. He wouldn't dare attack us openly, would he?"
Nie Tong already knew about his brother's relationship with the Emperor Yuan Yang. With a Great Emperor backing them, even if they had several times the courage, they probably would not dare act rashly!
Even if they caused trouble, it was nothing. Why was his brother so worried?
"I'm not worried about Prince Duobo, but... Puntian Great Emperor!" Seeing that he still did not understand, Nie Yun shook his head. "My identity as