King Qing had never expected that the person behind the brothel would be Lu Yin, as this person was not someone the Home of the Gods could deal with. Even without considering his status as a director, the Great Eastern Alliance had more Emissaries than the Home of the Gods. Furthermore, he had the support of the Sirius Sect, Everlasting Island, and the Hall of Honor. Dozens of Emissaries had participated in the Outerverse war, and six of them had a power level of over a million.
The Home of the Gods was very powerful and was a behemoth in the Neoverse, but it could not compare to the current Great Eastern Alliance. There were even rumors that a Half-Progenitor had appeared on the battlefield. If that was true, then it would be too terrifying.
If he had known that the person who had attacked the brothel was Lu Yin, then he would have stopped Yao Hong no matter what. This was not just trouble, but also despair.
Lu Yin retracted his hand. "Did that woman ask for help from the Home of the Gods?"
King Qing was shocked. "Alliance Master Lu, that has nothing to do with me. She's one of the Home of the Gods' eighteen Celestial Gods, Fenghua God. She has a very high status in the Home of the Gods and has many friends. That's why she can do whatever she wants in Sky Bearing City. Even I don't dare to do anything to her. She's a disciple of the Mirror God."
Lu Yin raised a brow. "Mirror God?"
King Qing endured his injuries. "The Mirror God is an expert who is second only to the Candle God in the Home of the Gods. The Candle God is in seclusion all year round, so the Mirror God is in charge of managing the Home of the Gods. Nearly half of the eighteen Celestial Gods are disciples of the Mirror God. Offending Yao Hong is the same as offending half of the Home of the Gods, so no one dares to offend her."
"What was Ember's status in the Home of the Gods?" Lu Yin asked.
King Qing was confused. "Ember?"
Lu Yin answered, "One of the Four Hegemons of the Cosmic Sea, the leader of the Nightmare Regiment, Ember."
King Qing explained, "I'm not familiar with the Cosmic Sea, and I don't know who Ember is, but it's rumored that there was a traitor in the Home of the Gods who was chased by the Mirror God and the Violet God and fled the Neoverse. That person might be Ember. I remember him being called the Nightmare God."
"He's a taboo in the Home of the Gods, and no one can mention him. Even Yao Hong doesn't, so we don't know much about him. But wasn't the Nightmare Regiment destroyed by Leon's Armada?"
"I- I know." Qing Yu trembled in the distance as she looked at Lu Yin in fear.
Lu Yin looked over. "You know?
Tell me something that interests me, and I might let you go. "
Prince Qing looked hopefully at Qing Yu. "Little Yu, tell me everything you know. Don't hold anything back."
"I-I don't know much," Qing Yu said fearfully. "Once, when Yao Hong was drunk, she said that the reason Huo Shen left the Home of the Gods was because he stole something from the Rune Technology ruins, which led to the pursuit of Mirror God and Violet God. She didn't know exactly what it was, but she did know that after so many years, Mirror God and Violet God never gave up. They would occasionally enter the Cosmic Sea to hunt him down."
"Anything else?" Prince Qing asked.
Qing Yu shook her head. "No, no. Oh, that's right. Yao Hong said that Violet Deity went out a while ago. He must have gone to hunt down Annihilation again. During the battle at Cosmic Sea, Annihilation escaped."
King Qing looked pleadingly at Lu Yin, awaiting his decision.
Qing Yu was right. Annihilation had escaped, and it was normal for the Home of the Gods to still be hunting him down. So where was the item that he had stolen?
Could Leon's Armada have obtained it?
Although the possibility was low, Lu Yin still sent a message to ask Big Sis.
Not long after, Big Sis replied. Lu Yin glanced at it and was disappointed.
Everything in the group had been accounted for, and there was nothing worth paying attention to. There was also nothing related to the Rune Technology ruins.
The item.
Big Sis wouldn't lie to him. No one in Leon's Armada cultivated the Scripture of Eon Evolution, so it was useless.
It should be on Annihilation himself, as he wouldn't have lost such an important item.
Where was Annihilation right now?
Lu Yin looked up into space. The universe was huge, and with Annihilation's strength, he could have escaped anywhere. The Home of the Gods was the most likely place to find him, and perhaps he could even borrow the Starsibyl Sect's strength.
Both Sky Bearing City and the Home of the Gods were in the North. Although the North was huge, the experts from the Home of the Gods were able to reach Sky Bearing City in less than a day.
The next day, King Qing was still half-buried in the ground while Qing Yu lay nearby. Yao Hong had also arrived, along with a group of cultivators from the Home of the Gods. Their leader exuded a powerful aura that caused all of Sky Bearing City to tremble.
It was an old woman who was also an Emissary, but her power level was clearly higher than King Qing's. Although they were both Emissaries, King Qing couldn't compare to an Emissary who used the Scripture of Eon Evolution.
When Yao Hong saw King Qing and Qing Yu's miserable state, she didn't immediately try to save them. Instead, she respectfully said to the old woman, "It must be the person behind the brothel. He clearly knows that I'm a disciple of the Home of the Gods, but he still dares to act so recklessly. He clearly doesn't care about the Home of the Gods."
The old woman's eyes turned into runes as she scanned the city lord's mansion. She then stared in a certain direction, and her expression changed drastically. Lu Yin was sitting there quietly, clearly waiting for them.
She immediately recognized Lu Yin when she saw him, as this wasn't their first time meeting.
Lu Yin also recognized the old woman.
He was the one who had helped her capture the Emissary from the group.
"Granny, we have to destroy the brothel today and find out who's so daring to offend the Home of the Gods." Yao Hong was still talking, but she didn't see Lu Yin at all.
It wasn't just her; the other cultivators from the Home of the Gods didn't see him either. Only the old woman did.
"Shut up!" the old woman shouted.
Yao Hong was stunned and looked at the old woman in confusion. "Granny?"
She realized that the old woman wasn't looking at her and was instead looking in another direction. Yao Hong followed the old woman's gaze and saw a young man smiling at them.
The young man's appearance was ordinary, and there was nothing special about him. However, Yao Hong wasn't an idiot; she was an Eighteen Celestial who had stood out from her cultivation in the Home of the Gods.
The more ordinary a person appeared in the city lord's mansion, the more extraordinary they were. This person in particular seemed very familiar.
The old woman faced Lu Yin and slowly bowed. "The Wind God of the Home of the Gods greets Alliance Leader Lu."
When they had first met, her attitude had been completely different. Although she had been intimidated by the flying willow leaves, she hadn't paid much attention to Lu Yin. She had even felt that Lu Yin should accept the friendship of the Home of the Gods. Even when Lu Yin had helped her capture the Emissary from the group, she had felt that it was only right.
Now, however, her attitude had completely changed. The friendship of the Home of the Gods?
Others might care about that, but Lu Yin might not. On the other hand, they cared about Lu Yin's friendship.
Outsiders might not know about the war in the Outerverse, but they knew that Lu Yin's side had mobilized six powerhouses with power levels in the millions. In the end, not only had a Half-Ancestor appeared, but the Blood Progenitor had also appeared because of the Origin Tribulation.
The Origin Tribulation had even drawn out Progenitor Chen, who had been at the peak of the Enlighter realm and had been defeated by Lu Yin. Only a small number of people knew about this, and the shock it brought was unparalleled.
The Astral Source Universe was in an uproar because of Lu Yin. He had the ability to shake the entire Fifth Mainland, and with his current influence, he could forcefully change the structure of the Neoverse.
In terms of status and power, she was far inferior to Lu Yin, and the moment she saw him, she could only bow to show her respect.
The Home of the Gods had always been synonymous with arrogance in the Fifth Mainland. Outsiders looked at them more than they looked at them as lunatics. Each of them had proclaimed themselves as gods, so what were they if not lunatics?
But even if they were lunatics, they were still rational lunatics.
They were arrogant, but they couldn't be arrogant in front of Lu Yin.
After the old woman bowed, the rest of the Home of the Gods' cultivators behind her bowed as well.
Alliance Leader Lu?
There was only one person in the entire universe who could be addressed in such a manner: the Great Eastern Alliance's Alliance Leader, a member of the Board of Governors, and a paragon of the same generation — Lu Yin.
Yao Hong recalled that it was indeed Lu Yin. In an instant, everything connected. It was Lu Yin. The one who had attacked them at the brothel was Lu Yin. No wonder he had appeared at the city lord's mansion, and no wonder King Qing and his son were in such a miserable state. If it was Lu Yin, then everything made sense.
"Greetings, Alliance Leader Lu." Yao Hong bowed deeply.
Half of King Qing's body was buried in the ground, and he looked at these arrogant cultivators from the Home of the Gods who were bowing like lunatics. His gaze was bitter, but he also found it funny. This was the difference between people.
He was an Emissary, but Yao Hong could act without restraint and speak rudely to him. However, Lu Yin was also an Emissary, so these people could only lower their heads. As he thought about it, he looked at Lu Yin. How had this young man done it?
How many years had it been since he started cultivating?
He was practically a legend, and he was even more of a legend than Progenitor Chen and the Talisman Ancestor.
Lu Yin looked up and quietly looked at the old woman without saying a word.
Since he didn't speak, the old woman and the rest could only maintain their bowing posture.
After half a day, Lu Yin finally spoke up. "I can't be considered friends with the Home of the Gods, but I can't say that we're enemies either. However, this time, you've gone a little overboard."
The old woman stood up and respectfully said, "Alliance Leader Lu, this is all a misunderstanding. Yao Hong didn't know that the brothel was now your property."
Lu Yin raised a hand to stop her. "Don't speak nonsense. It's not my property."
The people from the Home of the Gods were confused.
Lu Yin calmly said, "Old Man Bu and I have become good friends. This brothel is still his property, but since it's a good friend's property, it wouldn't be good for me to not take action when it was bullied. Don't you agree?"
The old woman nodded. "That makes sense. Alliance Leader Lu is right."
In the distance, Qing Yu, who was lying on the ground, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Reason?
When had the people from the Home of the Gods ever been reasonable?
"Since it was Alliance Leader Lu who took action, this matter will end here. At the same time, I would like to thank Alliance Leader Lu for showing mercy and sparing Yao Hong's life," the old woman said solemnly.
Behind her, Yao Hong was sullen. She had been slapped so many times, but in the end, she still had to thank Lu Yin for sparing her life. As one of the Home of the Gods' eighteen Celestial Gods, her status was so high that she could ignore some of the Emissaries. When had she ever suffered such grievances?
However, she didn't dare to say anything. The Home of the Gods was managed by the Mirror God in name, but in reality, the Mirror God also needed to cultivate. Everything was managed by the Wind God, and whatever the Wind God said was law.
Lu Yin's opinion of this old woman had improved. The people from the Home of the Gods weren't crazy, and they were willing to lower their heads when they needed to. Furthermore, they had done so much faster than anyone else. However, Lu Yin didn't plan on letting this matter go so easily. "I believe you, but I don't believe her." Lu Yin's gaze then landed on Yao Hong.
The old woman looked back and coincidentally saw Yao Hong's resentful gaze. She waved her hand and slapped Yao Hong across the face, sending Yao Hong flying.
Yao Hong was stunned, as she hadn't expected to be hit...