"Then this has truly been hard on you, little friend!"
Chen Shangsan laughed as well. "Since you appeared here so suddenly, you must have gone through something beyond the imagination of ordinary people like us. I'm afraid returning won't be as simple as you imagine. Do you have any plans for the time being, little friend?"
There was a hint of probing in his question.
Yet this was also the greatest problem standing before Qin Shaofeng.
He could not return.
What should he do now?
This Chen Shangsan before him was clearly trying to recruit him into the Chen family.
Qin Shaofeng frowned slightly and began to ponder.
He knew nothing about the Chen family. He could not yet tell whether that place was filled with people or ghosts. If he truly went there, benefits and danger would likely come hand in hand.
But the Chen family was, after all, a Lineage.
Moreover, when Chen Yuxin had mentioned the Carefree Gate earlier, he had referred to it as "that place." Clearly, the Chen family—even the entire region encompassing it—was not particularly strong.
At its strongest, it could not compare to a high-grade sect.
Most of Qin Shaofeng's treasures had indeed been used up, and he could not even take out the Ghost Three Slashes saber.
Yet he still had the Chasing Star Saber, which could let him unleash peak battle power at the Heavenly Venerate Realm, as well as Luo Tian Zen Shadow, a martial-art-sealing treasure that could be called divine-artifact grade.
He also had the Ghost Fire Bead, which frightened even himself, and the Heavenly Void Worms, which even Ximen Li and the others found troublesome.
Even though only a few Heavenly Void Worms remained, they could still handle minor tasks for him, such as keeping watch.
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