When Lin Bai received Yue Chuanming's voice transmission, he bade farewell to Old Wen and Yu You. With a flash of his figure, he vanished from the central square.
When Lin Bai appeared again, he had already arrived in an extremely secluded alley in the core area of Nine Underworlds City!
Standing at the entrance of the alley, Lin Bai peered inside. The alley was narrow and deep, and beyond fifty meters, it seemed to be shrouded in a layer of thick black fog, making it impossible to see the road ahead.
The deep, terrifying alley seemed to conceal some unknown and vicious creature. The moment an outsider stepped inside, it would swallow them whole.
Just as Lin Bai hesitated to move forward, a figure slowly emerged from the deepest part of the alley. It stopped fifty meters away, precisely within the range Lin Bai could see with his naked eyes.
That person was Yue Chuanming.
He still wore his ever-present gentle smile and cheerfully called out to Lin Bai, "Greetings, Imperial Son!"
"Imperial Son, come with me!"
With that, Yue Chuanming made an inviting gesture.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Bai stepped into the alley and said as he walked, "Senior, you guided me all the way here through voice transmission, to such a remote alley. What exactly do you want to do?"
"Remote?" Once Lin Bai reached Yue Chuanming's side, the two walked shoulder to shoulder toward the depths of the alley. "Imperial Son, have you ever heard this saying: 'When you feel you are moving farther and farther from the truth, you are actually drawing closer to it'?"
Lin Bai smiled faintly. He had naturally heard this saying before. Stories of investigations and reasoning from the mortal world often contained similar lines.
Considering his current situation,