"Fellow Daoist Chen, did you discover anything while exploring outside the city?"
After finishing his explanation, Lu Xiao asked about the situation outside the city.
Chen Lin concealed nothing. In a grave voice, he said, "There's thick black mist everywhere outside. I don't know how far it extends, and there are bizarre nightmare realm creatures in the mist. I couldn't venture deeper to investigate."
"It's actually like that?"
At Chen Lin's description, Lu Xiao's expression immediately darkened.
In such an environment, searching for Crimson Lotus High Person would become vastly more difficult. Unless the five of them had an extraordinary stroke of luck and ran straight into him, they could never search every corner.
After a moment's thought, Lu Xiao asked again, "How powerful were the bizarre creatures you mentioned, Fellow Daoist Chen?"
"Very powerful."
Chen Lin knew what he was getting at and continued, "Unless Crimson Lotus High Person is outrageously powerful, he probably couldn't survive in the black mist. We can focus our efforts on the city."
"Oh?"
Lu Xiao glanced at Chen Lin and nodded slightly. "If that's the case, it makes things much easier."
Then he asked, "Did you fight one of those bizarre creatures, Fellow Daoist Chen? What kind of creature was it? Did it have any special abilities?"
"The shadow moved too fast. I didn't get a clear look."
Chen Lin gave a casual answer.
He truly hadn't seen it clearly. The shadow had moved far too fast. All he had glimpsed was what seemed to be a humanoid outline; before he could notice anything else, his innate thunder power had reduced it to nothing.
He also told them about the light orbs.
Then he said, "I think we need to speak to He Ji, the one who conscripted us, again. Those light orbs