Li Yao was slightly dazed. "Thank me for what?"

"Thank you for persisting in your belief and proposing a different opinion in the meeting half a month ago, when the eleven of us did not object to surrendering to the Imperium of True Human Beings."

Ba Xiaoyu smiled bitterly.

"Otherwise, we probably would've sent a message to the Black Wind Fleet half a year ago, and the Ancient Sages Sector would've ended up as a base for the Black Wind Fleet. As for me, I would've had to leave my home and wander in the universe as a helpless unaffiliated Cultivator in space!"

Li Yao was touched. "Do you dislike the Imperium of True Human Beings so much, Fellow Cultivator Ba?"

"Yes. I don't like it at all." Ba Xiaoyu mumbled, looking at Heiye Lan somewhat at a loss. "In the past half a year, I've studied Heiye Lan's confessions constantly. I also spoke to her in private many times, asking her about the Imperium of True Human Beings' attitude toward ordinary folk.

"The path that the Imperium of Tru