Wang Chen was slightly taken aback.
He recognized the boy. He was the one Wang Chen had given a meat-filled flatbread to earlier.
"Immortal Master, hurry!"
Seeing Wang Chen hesitate, the boy anxiously stamped his feet. "The White Wolf Gang will be chasing us any moment now!"
After some thought, Wang Chen still followed him at a brisk pace.
Led by the boy, he threaded through narrow alleys and lanes, quickly shaking their pursuers without a trace.
The boy finally stopped at the end of a dead-end alley.
"Here!"
He swiftly lifted a stone slab from the ground, then jumped down.
Wang Chen jumped down after him.
Below lay a long secret passage. Once Wang Chen had descended, the boy skillfully sealed the stone slab back in place.
"Follow me."
He led Wang Chen through the passage again, heading downward for several hundred paces.
The way ahead suddenly opened up!
An entire district hidden deep underground abruptly appeared before Wang Chen!
Thick stone pillars supported a lofty dome overhead. Luminous stones embedded in the walls and pillars gave off a gentle radiance, illuminating this chaotic space.
The surrounding rock walls were riddled with tunnels leading to unknown places. Stone houses filled the spaces between the pillars, leaving only narrow paths for people to pass through.
The air here was quite murky, permeated by a strange smell.
People's clothes were generally filthy and tattered, and the beggars huddled in the streets and alleys numbered dozens of times more than those aboveground.
Fierce-looking villains were everywhere as well!
Was this Daying City's underground slum?
Wang Chen truly had not expected another world to exist beneath Daying City.
Xi Manyun and the Xi Family had not mentioned it to him at all before.
They had probably assumed that Wang Chen would never have