"Don't speak. Follow me and let them go play up ahead on their own." A familiar voice suddenly came from behind me. My heart surged with excitement. Wasn't that Mu Fengbai!
Senior Brother Hai knew better than to ask questions. He silently followed Mu Fengbai into a patch of deep darkness.
"Hey! Uncle Hai! You!" Lin Zhengyi spotted Senior Brother Hai and me disappearing into the darkness at a glance and shouted furiously.
I had no idea how Mu Fengbai had navigated the place. After winding through countless turns, we reached a hidden tree hollow. He released me, then peered outside.
I followed his gaze. Lin Zhengyi and Wang Luoying were searching everywhere for me, but the army below had also grown restless. They charged toward the path we had just taken!
There weren't thousands of them, but there were still several hundred elites! And that emperor was clearly different from ordinary emperors. Judging from the situation, he was at least in the mid-to-late Corpse Emperor stage! He had gotten us into a real mess.
"Late-stage Corpse Emperor. He's already discovered you two and knows you came for the treasure, so he's mobilized his soldiers and generals to surround and wipe you out," Senior Mu said.
I turned around and looked at Senior Mu's ghostly figure, clad entirely in white. Tears slipped down my face. "Senior Mu, it was all my fault. Back then..."
"Heh heh. Liberation by Violence wasn't my wish, but it was something I had no choice but to do. I spent my whole life trapped by love, and advancing any further was already incredibly difficult. There was no way my physical body could remain completely unharmed. I had walked too long a road, and I was even a little tired... In truth, I had already been