It was already the latter half of the night. The city lights were dim and scattered, and pedestrians had grown few.
An atmosphere of cold desolation quietly spread through the city.
Su Yi stood there, looking up at the heavens as he considered whether to charge into the underworld again and take a walk before that purple moon.
Suddenly, his brows lifted slightly. His figure vanished from thin air, and the next moment, he appeared inside the inn where he was staying.
Black Dog had long been waiting there. When it saw Su Yi return, it immediately heaved a sigh of relief. "I thought you'd slipped off alone in the night to visit a brothel and left me here to fend for myself."
Su Yi kicked Black Dog. "Do whatever you need to do next. No matter what abnormality occurs, don't make a sound about it."
Black Dog's heart tightened, and it nodded to show that it understood.
At the same time, in the underworld that overlapped with the world of the living above this city, a group of figures appeared.
There were both men and women, and each exuded an aura similar to that of the Immortality Guide Zhu Yun.
Leading them was a man in feathered robes with the face of a young man.
The moment he arrived, divine radiance burst from the Feather-Robed Man's eyes as he swept his gaze across the entire city from within the underworld, overlooking not a single detail.
The inn where Su Yi and Black Dog were staying was likewise carefully searched by the Feather-Robed Man's gaze.
Black Dog noticed nothing at all.
Su Yi, however, clearly sensed it. Sitting cross-legged, he calmly closed his eyes in meditation and pretended not to know.
A long while passed.
The Feather-Robed Man, standing in