Even as fellow humans, they did not dare to imagine what might happen.
The Lu family was a truly bizarre family. They possessed innate gifts like the Investiture of the Gods and the Champions’ Stage, and they had even managed to grow the innate gift of teleportation.
Hoping for such abilities was too remote from reality, no different from breaking into the Immortal realm.
What Lu Yin needed to do next was go to Vestigium. He did not know if Hong Xia had already gone there.
Soon, Lu Yin arrived in Vestigium, where he waited in silence for a while. No one spoke. Was Hong Xia not yet there? Or had he spoken directly to Ba Se and prevented others from hearing?
“Is anyone here?” Lu Yin spoke up, his voice adding a strange liveliness to the silent Vestigium. “Anyone? Say something. Where is everyone? Furball? Old Man Hehe? Lan Meng, you there?
“Even if you’re not, answer anyway.”
Ba Se’s voice sounded. “What is it?”
Lu Yin was puzzled. “What is it? You don’t know?”
Ba Se said nothing, so Lu Yin continued to ask, “Where’s Hong Xia? Has he come?”
Furball was surprised. “You know Hong Xia?”
Lu Yin smiled. “What’s so strange about that? Believe it or not, I even know what species you are.”
Furball’s voice instantly dropped. “Watch your mouth.”
“I literally call you Furball. What is there to watch out for?”
“You-!”
“Hehe.”
“Old Man Hehe, you old bastard, don’t just laugh. Say something.”
“Hehe.”
Lu Yin shouted, “Hong Xia, I know that you’re here. Speak! What? You dare to do such a thing but won’t admit it? You betrayed Obscura, and you think that no one knows about it?”
Hong Xia was already inside the orange coffin in Vestigium. He had been speaking directly to Ba Se, demanding that Obscura make their stance clear or at least take a position that would not leave him in too passive of a position.
He was extremely wary of Obscura. Ba Se had once said that the destruction of Lu Yin’s human civilization was no longer one of Obscura’s missions. If Hong Xia wanted to eliminate it, he first needed to confirm that Obscura would not stop him.
Ba Se refused to give a clearly stated position one way or the other. While Hong Xia was still thinking of how to force Ba Se to take a stance, Lu Yin had arrived. The moment the brat appeared, he had started making a ruckus, even going so far as to claim that Hong Xia had betrayed Obscura?
How utterly shameless.
“Lu Yin, what nonsense are you spouting?” Hong Xia barked.
Lu Yin heard an unfamiliar voice. Hong Xia was not any one of the Obscura members that Lu Yin had spoken with before, and while he had heard Hong Xia’s voice in Crimson Starshade’s megaverse, it was not difficult to alter one’s voice. Only now could Lu Yin confirm that he had never spoken to Hong Xia in Vestigium before.
Lu Yin sneered. “You betrayed Obscura! What? You dare to do it but don’t dare to admit it?”
Hong Xia shouted angrily, “Don’t think that your shameless arguing can wash away what you did. You’ve broken Obscura’s rules! Members of Obscura cannot attack each other—that is a rule, but you broke that rule! Ba Se, ask him if he has been to my megaverse. Ask him if he has taken my people.”
“How interesting, so you’ve finally met! Hahahaha! One from Crimson Starshade, one descended from abandoned bait. Hah!” Furball said excitedly.
“Hehe.”
Lu Yin did not have time to deal with those two. “Yes, I went to Crimson Starshade, and yes, I took some Immortals away from there. But what does that have to do with you? Hong Xia, did I strike at you? Or are you saying that the Immortals I took away are your clones?
“Do you think that, just because you became the ruler of Crimson Starshade, everyone in your civilization belongs to you? What a joke! And how embarrassing.”
Hong Xia’s tone grew dark. “They are part of my Twelvefold Path of Dispassion. You broke my anchors of my Path of Dispassion. How is that not attacking me?”
Lu Yin frowned. As expected, even at such a great distance, Hong Xia had felt the harm of his anchors being destroyed. The limits of the man’s strength were truly hard to gauge. “What Path of Dispassion? I have no idea what you’re talking about. But what of the crime of you betraying Obscura?”
“How did he betray Obscura?” Furball asked. They suddenly realized that it felt great to listen to Lu Yin argue with others. Wait, it was always me arguing with him in Vestigium before. Were the others enjoying it like this?
Hong Xia sneered. “I’d like to hear how you plan to twist black into white.”
Lu Yin asked loudly, “Ba Se, are you there?”
“Relax. Ba Se is always here. They’re listening. Just speak, hehe.”
“And the Keeper of Balance, are you there?” Lu Yin asked again.
Furball snorted. “What does the Keeper of Balance have to do with you?”
Lu Yin somberly replied, “I need a witness.”
“Ba Se is enough.”
“Not enough.”
“Enough.”
“Not enough! All of you have been together for so long. How can I know that you won’t join hands to set me up? I can’t afford to go against a stacked deck.”
“Hehe. Then how can you be sure the Keeper of Balance won’t stack the deck further?” Old Man Hehe asked.
Lu Yin replied, “The title sounds fair.”
Hong Xia spoke up again, “Lu Yin, do you know why so many civilizations throughout the Aevum Inch detest humans?”
Lu Yin mockingly retorted, “Because there are too many traitors.”
Hong Xia said heavily, “It’s because of petty cleverness. You keep probing Vestigium. Do you really think the others can’t see through what you’re doing? They simply choose not to stoop to your level.
“You want to know who the Keeper of Balance is? Fine. Release my people, and I’ll tell you.”