Yes, between the two of them, they likely have more than enough baggage to unpack on their own time. (Jin Guangyao is doing a very good job pretending that his didn't journey with him to Trench.) Still, he is more than to leave that remark about gods untouched and to let the conversation wend in his selected direction.

it was a segue!! he's a little guy, does he look like he can pick up a sledgehammer

"No, I have not," he answers, and looks--cautiously interested when Palamedes brings up the blood ministers and the Lumenarium. "Is such a place open to visits by outsiders who are uninjured?" It does sound suspiciously close to demonic cultivation, but Jin Guangyao shelved his aversion to such things a long time ago. (Also, 'uninjured' is a generous label for him to apply to himself at present, though it is technically an accurate one.)