An old acquaintance from Void Sovereign Heaven?
Yue You frowned slightly. He could tell that the World-Escaping Shuttle seemed to have some connection with Chen Jade Pivot, and for a moment he was puzzled.
Void Sovereign Heaven... wasn't that the domain governed by Jade Pivot's birth father? Strange, come to think of it. Jade Pivot never seemed to have told me how he escaped from Void Sovereign Heaven to Xudu Heaven. I only vaguely heard that, cornered by a powerful enemy, he abandoned his wife and children in exchange for a way out.
Could this World-Escaping Shuttle have known him back when he was still in Void Sovereign Heaven?
He thought it over again.
The World-Escaping Shuttle had originally been made by a master skilled in artifact refinement from beyond Xudu Heaven. Its origins were no trifling matter.
Only several hundred years ago had it passed through various hands and ended up with the Southern Sea's Ape Tribe, whose ruler, Yuan Fuzhen, had given it to Yuan Ju.
Following that line of thought,
there really did seem to be some connection...
"No wonder Jade Pivot wanted me to visit Linjiao Island. I wondered how he knew the World-Escaping Shuttle's background so thoroughly. So that was it?"
Something dawned on Yue You, and he understood at once.
Meanwhile,
the World-Escaping Shuttle's artifact spirit had a complicated look in his eyes. Only after a long silence did he sigh and say,
"You have certainly risen ever higher, True Lord. The vows you made while biting your finger on Two Qi Cliff as a child-have they all come true now? But since you [corrupted text] meet an old acquaintance, why are you hiding instead of showing yourself? What sense does that make?"
"Forgive me. At present, I am merely using that drop of