"Senior Brother Chen is here."
Before long, Gu Fei brought Chen Cheng over.
Seeing that Chen Cheng was merely a youth of eighteen or nineteen, He Lianhong's lips curled into a cold sneer, though he quickly concealed it.
Gu Dezhao stepped forward with a smile to welcome him. Even though he had little faith in Chen Cheng, he remained perfectly cordial on the surface.
"Young Master Chen! Your great reputation has long thundered in my ears. Meeting you today, I can see it is well deserved!"
Gu Dezhao cupped his fists. Before Chen Cheng entered the passage, he warned him, "Young Master Chen, the situation inside is far from ordinary. Even the waves of alchemical fire at the doorway have already reached a level my son Gu Fei can barely endure!"
"I certainly don't mean to look down on you, Young Master Chen. I'm simply worried something might happen, so I must offer a word of caution. Please weigh things carefully before acting—"
"Thank you for the warning, Boss Gu."
Chen Cheng said calmly, "Junior Brother Gu has already explained the general situation to me. If I weren't confident, I wouldn't have come at all."
"—So you're saying you're very confident?" He Lianhong asked indifferently.
"And you are?" Chen Cheng asked in return.
"Allow me to introduce him!"
Gu Fei said, "This is Senior He Lianhong, the sixth elder of the Divine Owl Sect's Alchemy Hall!"
The Divine Owl Sect?
Something stirred in Chen Cheng's heart.
The incident at the Breezewind Water Stronghold's docks had begun because an outpost belonging to a force under the Divine Owl Sect wanted to fight the stronghold for territory.
After that incident, all news of Yuwen Min and Bai Xinjie had vanished.
Chen Cheng had never stopped searching for them afterward, but he had