Ba Yue hesitated. "He’s not dead, but-"
"Good. Take me to him."
Lu Yin disappeared with Ba Yue before Elder Qiu could say anything. The old man had actually wanted to chat with Lu Yin since they had once traveled about Crimson Starshade together.
Back then, Elder Qiu had had no idea Lu Yin would become so powerful. Defeating Bing Xu? That was Bing Xu’s honor. Lu Yin’s true opponent had been Hong Xia.
Unfortunately, Elder Qiu had not been able to say much.
He Xiao was in a far worse state than Bing Xu. The moment he left the Champions' Stage Purgatory, he had been miserable beyond compare.
Bing Xu’s madness came from the resentment and blame he carried in regards to his own family, whereas He Xiao was tortured by the memories of the women whom he had harmed. Day after day, at every moment, those memories tormented him, and so did Ba Yue.
Finding that He Xiao was barely clinging to life, Lu Yin took him away.
Ba Yue’s expression was conflicted. She did not ask why Lu Yin had taken the man away. In truth, she had not tortured him for some time and seemed to have let the past go.
Bing Xu was mad, but He Xiao was even more insane and far more miserable. Meiran Dan looked at them with sorrow. After all, they had once been Immortals, only to have fallen to such a state.
Lu Yin asked Meiran Dan, "Have you remembered anything?"
She was the only one he could ask.
She nodded. "Recently, I did remember something. I found it strange at the time and asked Hong Xia about it, but he gave no answer. I do not know if it is what you are looking for."
"Tell me."
"Within the Crimson Starshade Megaverse is a region known as Red Dust. There is a unique culture in that place, a kind of chivalry that is not understood. The people there may be poor and weak, but they have never lost their sense of chivalry. Many die for it, as though their entire lives are spent pursuing a manner of conduct admired by others. That style is chivalry.
"I once went there, and I could not understand it. People should cultivate and fight desperately for opportunities, but in that place, humility actually exists, at least on the surface. The more humble a person is, the more respected they are. Even if they are not powerful, no one dares to offend them. Sometimes, even conflicts between strong cultivators need to be judged by such people.
"To be honest, I did not understand it. The reason why I remember that region was firstly because of the words ‘Red Dust,’ which hold special significance in our civilization. They caught my attention. Secondly, the people there do not cultivate the Path of Dispassion and do not even know the name of Crimson Starshade. That is practically impossible within our megaverse.
“So I went there, and I saw Hong Xia there. He had been there more than once, and he stopped me from investigating further. I suspect the reason why that region maintains its uniqueness is related to him. Otherwise, any cultivator could easily change that place."
Lu Yin fell into thought. Chivalry? That truly suits Hong Xia and his name.
That was all Meiran Dan knew about the Red Dust region, since Hong Xia had prevented her from investigating the place any further.
Lu Yin examined He Xiao and Bing Xu’s pasts further with karma. Bing Xu’s past revealed no knowledge of the Red Dust region, but He Xiao’s karma did. He Xiao had deliberately traveled through that region, and he had even fallen in love with a woman there. That woman had eventually met a tragic end, but through that thread of karma, Lu Yin was able to see the Red Dust region.
It was not a small region. A mortal could spend an entire lifetime there without leaving. For the people who lived there, the Red Dust region was the entire world.
No cultivator was allowed to enter Red Dust. He Xiao had been an exception because he was one of Hong Xia’s disciples, but not even he had stayed there for very long before leaving with that woman.
A place that Hong Xia cared about deeply, but one that not even Senior Jiu Wen knows about? And only two of Hong Xia’s disciples are aware of it? Lu Yin returned to the Crimson Starshade Megaverse and mentioned the words “Red Dust” to Jiu Wen.
The old man still did not understand, and Xi Shangfeng also knew nothing about it.
Regardless, Red Dust was a place that Lu Yin needed to visit. He teleported away and then again to enter the Crimson Starshade Megaverse. This time, he appeared at the border of the Red Dust region.
The region lay ahead of him, and the people living in it were clearly different from those outside of the region, especially given their culture of chivalry. Their society filled their area with constant noise and activity. Lu Yin teleported inside and examined the history of the region. This culture of chivalry had flourished for an extremely long time. While their history had been broken several times, it was not due to outside forces, but was rather from internal conflicts among the inhabitants of the region, which had caused many of their records to be lost.
Even though their history was quite fragmented, their culture of chivalry had never been severed and continued to be seen throughout the land.