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Ye Zichen, who was just about to flee, stopped, then laughed heartily as he walked in. "You're right," Ye Zichen said with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.
"Great Immortal Taibai, long time no see. You look just as good as before."
Ye Zichen reached out and grabbed Taibai Jinxing's hand. Taibai Jinxing chuckled. "Little Friend Ye, when did you learn to read faces? You can even tell that I look good?"
"Is there even a need to look? Judging by your rosy cheeks, you must be in great shape."
He sat down across from Taibai Jinxing, then grinned at Zuo Mo.
"Mo 'er, go prepare some fruits and immortal wine."
Zuo Mo's eyes were filled with worry. She sent him a strand of divine sense.
"Who exactly are they?"
"We're friends, but …. I can't explain everything to you in a short time. Just go prepare."
Ye Zichen gave her a reassuring look. After Zuo Mo left, he grinned.
"Great Immortal, we haven't seen each other in a while, have we? Why did you run all the way here? Even if we're going to meet, I should be the one going to you."
"Right now, you should be wondering how that old geezer found me," said Taibai Jinxing.
"Look at what you're saying …." Ye Zichen smiled vaguely, but inwardly, he muttered to himself.
The old geezer really had guessed correctly.
The God Realm was vast, but he'd been on the Divine Mountains while Ye Zichen was in the Lower Lands. How had he found his way here?
Ye Zichen didn't understand. Could it be that his phone had a GPS?
"Now you're wondering if your phone has a GPS?" asked Taibai Jinxing.
"....." Ye Zichen looked at the smiling Taibai Jinxing and sighed. "It's been so long since we last met. You must have gone off to learn fortune-telling."
Taibai Jinxing didn't deny it. He simply looked at Ye Zichen in amusement. When Ye Zichen saw his smile, he couldn't help but panic.
"Out with it. What are you here for?"
Ye Zichen couldn't be bothered to argue with Taibai Jinxing.
He crossed his legs, took a cigarette out of his pocket, and put it to his lips. He inhaled deeply, then exhaled a cloud of smoke.
In the Heavenly Court, Taibai Jinxing was a heavy smoker.
When he saw that Ye Zichen actually had a cigarette in his hand, his heart itched a bit.
"Want one?"
Ye Zichen raised his eyebrows, then flicked a cigarette into his hand.
Catching the cigarette, Taibai Jinxing lit it up skillfully.
"My purpose here is very simple. Give me back the key fragment of the Tomb of the God of Sin."
"Is there a need to travel so far just for a key fragment? Did you descend from the Divine Mountains? "Ye Zichen was speechless.
"I don't know either, but Little Friend Ye hasn't been contacting me. You didn't pick up my video call either. I really have no other choice, that's why I came up with this plan. "Taibai Jinxing said.
"Really?"
Ye Zichen was completely shocked. He took out his phone and pretended to look at it.
"Oh, you really sent it. I'm really sorry. After I sent that message, I went into seclusion and didn't notice the video you sent. "
Seclusion?
He had clearly rejected the first video message at the very beginning, and then pretended that he wasn't there.
Taibai Jinxing didn't point it out. This was something that the two of them had a tacit understanding about. His purpose in coming here was not to haggle over these things. What he wanted was the fragment.
"Then, Little Friend Ye, could you …."
"That's impossible."
Ye Zichen cut Taibai Jinxing off. "According to the rules of our Red Packet Group, once you send it out, you can't take it back. I snatched it based on my own ability. Why should I give it back to you? Besides, so many people tried to snatch it, but the fragment just had to come to me. Great Immortal, don't you think it's just fate that brought me here? "
"How can you speak to His Excellency Taibai like that?"
The tall and sturdy man standing behind Taibai Jinxing took a step forward with a bang. This step caused the ground to crack, and the whole house to shake a few times with his step.
His aura was like that of a ferocious beast in the mortal world.
Even though Ye Zichen was a sky supreme expert, he felt a chill run down his spine.
He was a ninth-stage sky supreme at the very least, perhaps even a diviner.
Ye Zichen squinted his eyes as he gave the man a definition of his cultivation level.
It seemed this geezer Taibai really had come with ill intentions!
"Great Immortal Taibai, this …." Taibai Jinxing glanced at the brawny man, then smiled elegantly. "Little Friend Ye, please don't misunderstand. I had no intention of attacking."
With that, he turned and glared at the brawny man.
"Who told you to do that?"
"It wasn't you …." The man clearly wasn't smart enough to understand what was going on. He explained it to Taibai Jinxing with an aggrieved expression.
Taibai Jinxing's expression instantly froze. "Stand properly. I didn't tell you to speak."
The brawny man retreated in an aggrieved manner. Taibai Jinxing was clearly embarrassed.
"Little Friend Ye, please don't misunderstand. I didn't tell him to do that."
As he explained, he glared at the brawny man, causing the man's expression to grow even more aggrieved.
"It's fine."
Zuo Mo nodded and smiled. At that moment, she brought over some fruits and wine. When she saw the cracks in the ground, she subconsciously glanced at Ye Zichen.
Ye Zichen shook his head at her, indicating for her to leave. Then, Taibai Jinxing spoke.
"Little Friend Ye, we've known each other for quite some time now. You should know what kind of person I am. The fact that I'm here means that the key fragment really is important. "
"I know."
The God's Mausoleum held the God Emperor's grave. Everyone knew how important the key fragment was.
"Then why can't you just give it back to me?" asked Taibai Jinxing helplessly.
"What do you want it for? The one buried in the God's Mausoleum is the North Star God Emperor. Only the person who manifested the North Star can receive his inheritance. Could it be you?"
"You know all about it?" When he heard this, Taibai Jinxing froze despite himself, then shook his head. "Of course I'm not the one who manifested the North Star."
"Then what do you want it for?"
"But I know who it is, and that person has already contacted me."
As soon as Taibai Jinxing said that, Ye Zichen laughed.
The true person who manifested the Emperor Star was sitting right here, yet Taibai Jinxing said someone had contacted him?
What a joke ….
No!
Suddenly, Ye Zichen recalled that the heavens had chosen two emperors to manifest the Emperor Star, and that the Five Elements Great Emperor and Zhou Wu had manifested the Emperor Star as well.
However, Zhou Wu was now the God Emperor, so he shouldn't have any particular interest in the God's Mausoleum.
"Do you think the person who contacted you was Gu Li?"
Ye Zichen eliminated all possibilities, then probed tentatively. To his surprise, Taibai Jinxing's pupils constricted.
"How do you know? It was him. He came looking for me and said he was the one who manifested the Emperor Star."
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