"This was different." Bai Yu shook his head, his rainbow-bright long hair swaying slightly with the motion. "The first time was a special circumstance, the second time was a different place, and besides, Boss, you weren't in a hurry."
Luo Chuan thought it over carefully. It seemed Bai Yu was not wrong.
Once he understood that, he simply put all the fruit Bai Yu had taken out into the System Space, making the latter's eyes widen at once.
"Boss, what are you doing?!"
"Wasn't this your treat?"
"Treating you to food is one thing, but you're actually thinking of taking it away!"
"Why are you being so stingy? Don't you have so many spiritual herbs here?"
"What does that have to do with how many spiritual herbs I have..."
Several minutes later, accompanied by Bai Yu's resentment-filled muttering, Luo Chuan finally entered the passage leading to the Shadow Realm. His only regret was perhaps that he had not gotten to see Ultraman's stone statue...
A murky, hazy sky shrouded a black-and-white world devoid of color. There were no sun, moon, or stars in the heavens; only strange silhouettes occasionally flickered into view. They resembled creatures lurking in the darkness of the deep sea, as though at any moment they might suddenly reveal their savage forms, beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Houses with sky-blue roofs and snow-white walls stood upon grayish-white dunes. Not far away, an enormous pale-blue translucent light screen floated quietly in the air. Together, they formed a rare splash of color in the Shadow Realm. Many Shadow Dwellers gathered around them, as though this were their nest.
Looking at the scene before him, Luo Chuan felt as though things had changed while people remained the same. Yet when he counted carefully, he had not been gone for