"You're only coming now? I thought you, Zhang Chen, would've rushed here the moment the incident happened."
Gui Zhong examined Zhang Chen's group of three from head to toe. Every one of them felt vastly different from before, though Gu Chen's changes were the most obvious in both appearance and presence. Zhang Chen and Yu Ming had both concealed their auras well; unless one came into direct contact with them, it was difficult to discern their true condition.
"Gui Zhong, haven't you gone inside?"
"I can't venture too deeply. Although the recent upheaval shattered the Sunken Ghost Realm's barrier as a whole, its rejection of an outsider Ghost like me still remains at the core. I've confirmed that the source lies at a small mountain. Yet the Bodhi Patriarch refuses to go there no matter what. That old fellow apparently doesn't want to waste any unnecessary strength before the war."
Zhang Chen naturally knew that Gui Zhong's main purpose in coming here so quickly was to explore a way to fully activate the True Ghost form. Moreover, seeing Gui Zhong carrying a longbow and wearing Tian Jing's appearance filled Zhang Chen with intense disgust.
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Chen continued, "Is anyone else inside? Three months ago, I heard that Miss Elizabeth intended to enter the Sunken Ghost Realm. I wonder how she is doing."
The reason Zhang Chen did not directly ask whether Elizabeth was inside was because, during his conversation with Gui Zhong when he had just returned from the Sunken Ghost Realm three months ago, he had said that he had not entered its interior.
Gui Zhong's expression shifted slightly. "Elizabeth? She left my Ghost Domain a long time ago. Besides, other than the areas surrounding the two small mountains that I cannot enter, I