Hearing the Shadow Scholar's name, Chen Lin was secretly shaken.
If the Shadow Scholar had grown stronger because he had entered the place the other party mentioned, then there really was something extraordinary about it.
After all, the Shadow Scholar was universally acknowledged as a Supreme Expert.
Still, he could not take the other party's words as absolute truth. The Shadow Scholar was very well known in the Star Ruins; anyone who had lived there should have heard of him. That made it highly likely his name was merely being used as bait.
"What does the Zodiac Map look like? Could you draw it for this humble one, Great King, and broaden my horizons?"
Chen Lin asked tentatively.
His manner was deeply deferential.
True or false, anything involving the Shadow Scholar deserved his attention. Getting his hands on it would be ideal.
The Red-Haired Mouse glanced at Chen Lin.
"So you really weren't sent by that woman," he said, sounding disappointed. "And your cultivation is far inferior to hers. Even with the Longevity Mirror, you can only give me a few more years to live. You can't take me out of here."
"How can we know without trying?"
Chen Lin raised an eyebrow.
"Hmph."
The Red-Haired Mouse snorted.
He curled his lip. "Don't think you're formidable just because you can withstand the Exquisite Sword's sword qi. That's only because the last person who came sealed some of its power. That person also made the crack in the altar. You merely borrowed their strength."
Then he sighed again.
"Unfortunately, my aura has been locked onto. You only encounter sword qi when you come and go, but if I leave, the Exquisite Sword itself will attack me. It's the Exquisite Sect's sacred object, and it's been absorbing my divine power all this