Hearing Gray Donkey's answer, Chen Lin rummaged through his grotto-heaven and took out a large chest of star crystals.
He opened it and set it on the ground.
"Can you eat these?"
Gray Donkey looked disgusted. "My most adorable master, these are rocks, aren't they? I'm a donkey! Have you ever seen a donkey eat rocks?"
Chen Lin glared.
"Didn't you just say any form of energy would do? These are star crystals, advanced energy bodies formed when stars collapse! They're top-tier currency in a boundary realm. What more could you possibly want?"
"Fine."
Gray Donkey drooped his ears and reluctantly curled his tongue around a star crystal, crunching away at it.
He muttered as he chewed.
"What a rotten year. Everyone else's master lets them feast on delicacies, but Lord Donkey has sunk to eating rocks. How's a donkey supposed to live?"
Chen Lin ignored him outright.
He first checked his body, then walked to the city gate and sent his soul mind inside to investigate.
His brow furrowed.
After a quick sweep, he stepped into the city.
He wasn't teleported away as he had been last time. Before him stood only a crude settlement, now abandoned and utterly deserted. There was no entrance to Floating Life City either.
"Was it prepared specifically for me?"
Chen Lin muttered.
It seemed his entry into Floating Life City had been neither a coincidence nor bad luck. Someone had deliberately arranged it.
But it probably hadn't been the cultivators here. Either Shadow Scholar's arrangements had influenced it, or that Heavenly Dao had set a trap specifically for him.
He glanced upward.
Chen Lin reached out and grasped, and the Heaven-Slaying Saber appeared.
His gaze gradually sharpened. Then the blade vanished, and a streak of rainbow light shot into the sky, as though