Although he was stating a fact, and it did sound reasonable to everyone else, the Heavenforging Sect's people still wondered what on earth was going on inside his head.
When everyone had been discussing it earlier, he had stood off to one side without a word, as though it had nothing to do with him. If he could find Shi Chun, why hadn't he said so sooner? What was the point of saying it now?
Of course, saying it sooner or later made no difference; neither could change their current situation. But saying it now was even more pointless. His words were no better than a fart.
Still, they had to show him respect. He was the world's foremost artifact refiner, after all, and he wasn't competing with them for power or profit, so no one criticized him.
Luo Yan spoke quite frankly. "Junior Brother, whether you can find him no longer matters. What matters is that we have no way to send you in. To open a passage inside, the Divine Fire Spirit Gate must stop operating, then be restarted in reverse. You know that. The problem is that we can't communicate with the other side right now, and we don't know whether any sect's disciples have entered the passage between the two realms. Stopping it rashly would be no different from slaughtering innocents. How could the world's foremost artifact-refining sect do such a thing?
"Besides, our sect can't decide this alone, and the other sects won't agree. Even if you approach them yourself, they won't give you that consideration. They have plenty of suspicions, too. The more you want to go in, the less willing they'll be to let you. Do you think you can make them all agree?"
At those words, Situ Gu fell silent. He knew