Interrogation
"Hey, where are you?" the female cultivator called softly, hoping Lake and Sea Wanderer would respond.
Unfortunately, aside from the howling mountain wind, there was no other sound.
Still unwilling to give up, the female cultivator wore an expression halfway between coy resentment and delight. Her voice was syrupy as honey, able to seep into the deepest chambers of one's heart. "You dead man, just where have you died to?"
Her voice possessed a soul-hooking, spirit-snaring power. It drifted several miles away, and whoever heard it felt an impulse rise in their heart, wanting to answer her call. Yet even after she used this move, there was still not the slightest response from the mountains. Moreover, a thin mist slowly rose through the surrounding area, steadily thickening.
The mist not only limited one's vision, but muddled one's senses. After looking around twice, the female cultivator vaguely felt that even the terrain around her had changed. For a time, she could not tell east from west, north from south.
Chu Yan's expression finally changed.
Dozens of miles away, Yu Ci had been watching the demons fight and finding it stifling. Seeing this unexpected turn, his heart suddenly felt greatly refreshed, and he slapped his thigh with laughter. He had noticed earlier that Lake and Sea Wanderer had made quite a few little moves during his search, as though plotting something. Sure enough, that was exactly the case.
With the divine intent starlight lodged in his soul, no one understood Lake and Sea Wanderer's whereabouts better than Yu Ci.
Lake and Sea Wanderer had prepared thoroughly. Using a boulder for cover, he leaped naked from the cliff without the slightest hesitation. Halfway down, he took spare clothing from his Storage Ring—a suit of night clothes. He hastily put them on, and