After thinking it over for a long time, Chen Lin still felt that the Light Gate scenario was unreliable.
He did not even know whether there was danger over in Yeguang City. Gambling his life on it now would be taking things far too far.
With a self-mocking smile, Chen Lin returned to the Heavenly Mechanism House.
After some thought, he took out the Soul Hive.
Since he did not dare go out now, he might as well continue through this item's cycles of samsara and see what mystery lay in its thirty-sixth opening.
Chen Lin had originally intended to wait until he condensed the Star Core of his second Inner Star before using it.
But circumstances had changed, so using it a little early would do no harm. His cultivation had already reached Mahayana anyway. Unless he entered the Void Realm, there was little room left for his soul level to improve.
Having made his decision, he hesitated no longer.
Chen Lin reached out and took out the petal of the Undying Soul Lotus. Holding it in his hand, he activated the Soul Hive.
"Halfway through the third month, carry the flower lantern, window paper shows a shadow, face to face, yet nothing is clear..."
Several children were playing in an open stretch of a dirt road, singing a strange rhyme as they played.
Not far away, a chubby little boy watched quietly.
He showed no intention of joining them, but neither did he leave.
"Little Lin, come play!"
A little girl with upward pigtails waved at the boy.
Instead of going over, the boy walked away without any expression on his face.
"Don't bother calling him. He's an idiot. He doesn't know how to play anything..."
The other children's scornful voices reached the departing boy's ears.
Yet