Hangenor caught the woman with a hint of panic. Watching Lu Li's receding back, he could not help but ask in confusion:
"Hey, hey? Why are you leaving?"
"Aren't you going to look for your Evelina?"
As he called out, he did not forget to follow after Lu Li, likewise darting back in the direction they had come from.
"Can't find her." Lu Li's reply came from the darkness, growing ever more distant.
"Can't find her? You haven't even entered the Path of Pain yet!" As they exchanged words, Hangenor too vanished into the darkness, disappearing from Varimathras's sight.
Only his continued shouts reached Varimathras's ears, proving that he had indeed lingered there just moments ago:
"When you went into the cave earlier, didn't you say you were going to traverse the Path of Pain and find Evelina?"
"Why give up just like that?"
Hearing this, Varimathras nodded in sudden realization.
"No wonder Li Yun dove headfirst into the cave earlier, so resolutely..."
"Could everything happening now be connected to the future scenes he knows about?"
"The entrance to the Path of Pain... is this even deeper cave?"
With that thought, he instinctively glanced into the darkness beneath him.
Invisible tendrils formed from spiritual power extended downward, only to seem like iron wires plunged into concentrated sulfuric acid, instantly swallowed and dissolved.
No feedback came back.
All that awaited him was endless unknown and darkness.
Varimathras could not help but shudder.
He had come in merely to show his loyalty to the Demon King, not because he truly wished to explore the mysteries of the unknown.
Now that Li Yun and Hangenor had left one after another, there was naturally no reason for him, a mere demon elder, to remain here any longer.
Casting a wary look into the bottomless