Rendezvous

The River of the Underworld was too dark. Even Gu Shen's mental strength could not spread very far.

After the transaction was completed.

He saw a faintly flickering "point of light" in the pitch-black river water...

That should have been the direction the devil had pointed out for him.

"What is that point of light?"

Gu Shen did not hurry to move. Instead, he asked a question.

"Sorry... answering that question is not within the scope of our previous transaction."

The devil said lightly, "I am only responsible for pointing you in the right direction. Everything else has nothing to do with me. If you want to remove and absorb the Mental Toxin in this River of the Underworld, head in the direction I indicated."

This guy had gotten smarter.

Gu Shen said nothing. With the Iron Law of the ruler's space restraining it, he was not worried that the devil would toy with him.

The transaction had already been made.

It had to guide him, and that point of light had to be where the Mental Toxin was!

It was just that Gu Shen did not know what other dangers might lie where the point of light was.

Their original transaction had not required the devil to guarantee his safety.

Gu Shen remained cautious about that.

He slowly swam toward the point of light, gripping Fate Goddess's Protection as he silently sensed it.

The cross pendant emitted a faint glow.

This black river was filled with strangeness and mystery... the mental fluctuations sent by the pendant remained highly vigilant.

Back on the snowy mountain, the guidance given by the pendant had at least allowed him to roughly identify a direction.

But now.

The pendant seemed to have lost the ability to distinguish specific dangers. Or perhaps danger existed in