Chen Lin slowly came to.
He immediately discovered that he was lying beside the Gold-Spotted Fruit Tree, with a faint fragrance lingering on his body.
Startled, he hurriedly checked himself.
But aside from his clothes being somewhat disheveled, nothing was missing.
Could it be?
A possibility suddenly occurred to Chen Lin, but he felt he might be overthinking things. Given Hua Ruyu's current circumstances, she hardly seemed likely to do something like that.
Yet there seemed to be no other explanation for the scene before him. His body even retained certain sensations.
Besides, his actual body had indeed been pulled into that space earlier, so the prerequisite for having intimate relations had been met. He just had no idea what she hoped to gain.
"Utterly baffling."
Chen Lin muttered a complaint.
Then he stopped dwelling on it, stood up, stretched his limbs, and returned to the Heavenly Mechanism House.
After bathing and changing his clothes, he began considering the information Hua Ruyu had provided.
Whatever her motives, she had done him an enormous favor this time, giving him a basic understanding of this world's secrets.
That was very important to him.
But according to her, a journey to the Outer Realms when the cage changed over was probably unavoidable. Whether he left with the Vanguard Team or found his own way into the Nightmare Realm's Outer Realm Battlefield, he would have to make a trip to the Outer World.
His status as a Prison-Suppressing Envoy could not exempt him from the Grand Formation's surveillance and attacks.
That disappointed him greatly.
Still, being able to return to the Inner World from outside was a privilege of sorts. His painstaking efforts to complete the assignment for the Prison-Suppressing Envoy position had not been wasted.
Hua Ruyu had not explained exactly how to