"So you mean you only pulled us down from the Blood River, yet you still can't give us any answers?"
The old man of the Zhang Family said only four words.
"Seeing is believing."
At that moment, Chen Ye, who had remained silent all along, suddenly spoke.
"I want to ask you something."
"Netherworld Army? Go ahead."
At those words, Kyle abruptly turned his head and glared fiercely at Chen Ye.
But Chen Ye acted as though he had not seen it and merely said seriously,
"Our prophet...
...is behind you?"
The old man of the Zhang Family answered,
"Yes. The prophet is here."
Chen Ye said nothing more.
Seeing that everyone had finished asking, Zhou You shrugged and said to Kyle,
"All right. He's yours."
With that, he directly took Sansan's hand and led Chen Ye and the survivors onward.
A line split open across the old man of the Zhang Family's face, like a door swinging wide open. He offered no resistance and allowed everyone to pass through. Kyle stopped in front of him, looked at that aged face, silently sheathed his blade, and left with the others.
At last, the old man of the Zhang Family closed his face, looked at the empty room, let out a long sigh, shut his eyes, and fell silent forever.
Beyond that room lay another narrow passage.
How should they put it? The underground structure did not seem like a prison at all, but rather some deep labyrinth. Everything about it had been designed not to imprison people, but to make intruders lose themselves within it.
Fortunately, the final passage was not particularly long and had no forks. After waiting for more than ten minutes, as the light before them changed once again, they saw an incredibly vast area covered in