"Take me there!"
The gray-robed man was helpless, but he could only turn and enter the palace.
Before long, they arrived beside a bookshelf deep within the palace.
A candlestick stood beside the bookshelf. The gray-robed man gripped it and gave it a slight turn.
Click, click, click.
Accompanied by the sound of mechanisms turning, a passage opened in the floor beside the bookshelf.
A flight of stairs led straight underground.
The gray-robed man looked expressionlessly at the beggar. "The secret library is below."
Li Qing nodded slightly and took several steps down.
Watching his retreating back, the gray-robed man revealed a vicious smile.
"Heh heh, he actually dares enter the underground library. Every book down there is steeped in aberrant power."
"As long as he dares casually pry into the contents of those books, Aberrant Contamination could occur at any moment, turning him into an Anomaly."
"Heh heh heh, he's really courting death."
Delight flashed through his heart. If you're seeking death yourself, you can't blame me.
Leaving aside the man's malicious thoughts, Li Qing had already controlled the beggar down to a depth of at least ten zhang underground.
The air here was exceedingly stifling. The instant he stepped in, even Li Qing's breathing stalled slightly.
There were not many bookshelves here, only around ten rows.
The library was a stone chamber, with Night-Bright Pearls placed all around it.
Their hazy glow illuminated the stone chamber, yet the chamber itself was steeped in a misty, indistinct sensation.
Through the spiritual imprint inside the beggar's body, Li Qing could clearly sense what that hazy feeling was.
It was a distortion, one that had gradually begun to affect the material world.
Vaguely, figures seemed to flicker through those distortions.
Li Qing's expression turned grave as the Shadow Paper Doll swiftly