"Coming over so early, I assume you must be quite idle."
At this moment, Lin Xiao suddenly appeared from somewhere, staring at the tiny drone hovering overhead. "This thing, did you forge it using the techniques from 'Bai Lian Shen Ji' as well?"
"As expected of Lin Xiao, your observation is sharp. Indeed, I've refined these items. After all, current ordinary technological levels cannot meet my requirements. However, by combining 'Bai Lian Shen Ji' with technology, I can perfectly meet my needs." Qi Tian greatly admired Lin Xiao. "To be honest, if your work here wasn't so demanding, I would have seriously considered keeping you as my test subject."
"You care about whether my work is busy?" Lin Xiao asked, as if he had heard a joke.
"Naturally, I need to pay attention. If your work is too busy, you'll be impatient during my experiments, and your actions will be too heavy-handed, thus the data I collect won't be complete enough," Qi Tian explained with conviction. "After all, what I value more than collecting your data is the perfection of my creations."
"You mean I'm idle?"
Ye Chen immediately grasped the key point upon hearing this. Brother Xiao was too busy, so he wasn't a suitable candidate. If he himself became a test subject, wasn't that essentially saying he was idle?
"Of course. I've observed that besides guarding the door for Lin Xiao, you don't do anything else. Therefore, you are quite idle. As long as I don't come looking for Lin Xiao, you have nothing to do."
Qi Tian's words left Ye Chen speechless.
However, Qi Tian was indeed speaking the truth.
For the past two days, Qi Tian hadn't sent any modified humans, and it had been very quiet here. Lin Xiao was still busy with his tasks, but Ye Chen basically had nothing to do but follow Lin Xiao around.
He did feel a bit too aimless.
"What he says seems to be true," Lin Xiao also remarked. "You don't need to do anything here lately, so focus on preparing for future matters."
"Yes... Brother Xiao."
Ye Chen quickly replied.
"Alright, if I recall correctly, Lin Xiao, you wanted to talk to me last night. What's the matter?" Qi Tian got straight to the point, showing no intention of wasting time. "If you want to know the relationship between my Qi Sect and the Misty Immortal Palace, I can tell you."
"There's almost no interaction between the Qi Sect and the Misty Immortal Palace. If there is any, it's that the Misty Immortal Palace orders a certain number of magic treasures from my Qi Sect annually."
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment after hearing this. He was surprised that Qi Tian could reveal this so readily. He then asked tentatively, "From your tone, I feel like your relationship with them isn't very good."
"Of course, it's not good."
Qi Tian said matter-of-factly, "My Qi Sect emphasizes keeping up with the times and continuously combining our own technology with modern science. As a result, they have always said that our Qi Sect is in decline and needs to rely on mundane things to improve."
"I find this outdated thinking, this self-imposed stagnation, extremely repulsive."
Qi Tian did not hide his dislike at all. "Furthermore, every time they receive the magic treasures we forge, they nitpick. If it weren't for the need for resource trading, I wouldn't want to craft anything for them."
As he spoke, he began to scoff.
It seemed their relationship was truly not good.
Lin Xiao now felt more assured.