Cheng Pi was about to lash out at Edward when Yu Xian's voice suddenly rang beside his ear.

"Don't act rashly. He's trying to provoke you."

Cheng Pi immediately snapped back to his senses and realized that Edward had been trying to draw information out of him. Had he taken the bait, he would undoubtedly have retorted in anger and accidentally revealed that Bat was still alive.

Revealing Bat's survival alone was not a very significant matter. The real problem was that it would also expose the existence of the Huaxia Pocket Dimension.

No one was certain what had happened to Huaxia. For now, it was effectively in a state of "feigned death." If Cheng Pi brought Huaxia out of hiding and into the open, Edward would begin scheming relentlessly for a way to enter the pocket dimension.

When people were uncertain about something, they would never devote themselves to an undertaking that could prove fruitless. Only when their objective was clear would they commit all their effort...