After all that back and forth, most of the night had already passed. Lu Ye was hesitating over whether he should simply stay the night at Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild when a message suddenly came through his Battlefield Mark.
Lu Ye checked it. It was a message from Shen Xiaomao, her tone extremely urgent: "Come back, quickly! The Spirit Land is in danger!"
Lu Ye hurriedly replied, but there was no response from Shen Xiaomao's side.
He realized something was wrong and hastily walked out of the merchant guild, summoned his Spirit Boat, and shot into the sky.
Only after the time it took an incense stick to burn did another message come from Shen Xiaomao. Lu Ye exchanged a few brief lines with her and roughly understood the cause of the matter. His heart was filled with astonishment. No matter what, he had never imagined things would turn out like this.
He raced onward the entire way.
By daybreak, he reached the place where he had agreed to meet Shen Xiaomao and dropped down, yet he saw no sign of her.
He sent a message over, but there was no reply.
Searching the surroundings, he saw a few drops of blood on the leaves to one side. Lu Ye's brows furrowed, and he realized Shen Xiaomao's situation might not be too good.
Just as Lu Ye did not know where to go to find the woman, Amber, crouched on his shoulder, suddenly jumped down and padded lightly straight in one direction.
Lu Ye hurriedly followed.
A moment later, before a pitch-black mountain cave, Amber stopped and gave an awoo toward the inside. Lu Ye lowered himself and crawled in, walking all the way to the very depths. The thick stench of blood immediately rushed into his nose. At the