"Bzz, bzz, bzz..."
Just then, the surface of the Spirit Mirror at Huang Que's waist, used by the Nine Prefectures to transmit messages, suddenly blazed with light and began vibrating incessantly.
Huang Que picked up the Spirit Mirror and saw Prefect Liu Chuxuan's name clearly displayed on its surface.
"It's the Prefect."
Seeing Xu Taiping and Dugu Qingxiao cast questioning looks his way, Huang Que immediately explained.
"Hahaha!..."
Upon hearing that it was a message from the Prefect of the Nine Prefectures, Lü Qiu of Wang You Valley suddenly laughed without restraint.
In his view, the elders of Wang You Valley must have received his plea for help and were already demanding that the Prefect of the Nine Prefectures release him.
At the sound of his laughter, Huang Que's and Dugu Qingxiao's expressions darkened.
Only Xu Taiping remained as unruffled as the water in an ancient well.
"Prefect."
Huang Que raised the Spirit Mirror and began speaking to Prefect Liu Chuxuan on the other end, his voice full of reluctance.
"Huang Que, is Lü Qiu, the disciple of Wang You Valley, beside you?"
Liu Chuxuan asked Huang Que directly.
"He is."
Huang Que turned to glance at the smug-looking Lü Qiu.
With his guess confirmed, his voice filled with helplessness.
"Release him, Huang Que."
Liu Chuxuan's voice came from the Spirit Mirror.
Huang Que and Dugu Qingxiao beside him could both hear the helplessness Liu Chuxuan felt in making that decision.
With the current strength of the True Martial Heaven Cultivation World, the Nine Prefectures dared not rashly offend even some first-rate sects from the other heavens, let alone a peerless sect like Wang You Valley.
"But Prefect, this man is highly suspect in the matter of those three arsonists from Wang You Valley!"
Unwilling to accept this, Huang Que