I Had No Choice

As long as I nodded, she would make her move?

A strange look appeared in Yang Ling's eyes.

"What White Bone God Lord means is..."

"She and one of the Earthly Immortals from the Myriad Affairs Bureau think there's an Earthly Immortal backing me!?"

Yang Ling suddenly understood.

He finally understood why they had brought him here.

Whether it was the precise intelligence he had provided to locate the White Bone Dao Palace,

or how he had exposed He Busu,

none of the Myriad Affairs Bureau's directors had looked into it further. It was not because they acknowledged his investigative ability, but because they acknowledged his... background!

This time, he had been brought to the Abyssal Beast Grotto. Rather than needing his investigative skills,

they wanted to borrow the name of the "Earthly Immortal" behind him.

"Let me think. It should have happened like this..."

"An Earthly Immortal of the Myriad Affairs Bureau had my sworn elder brother come to A-9 City to retrieve something important."

"Chen Jiu and the Earthly Immortal behind him discovered this. Chen Jiu framed my sworn elder brother, and the item is most likely already in his hands. My sworn elder brother must have escaped alive."

"That Earthly Immortal from the Myriad Affairs Bureau reached an agreement with White Bone God Lord and had her handle this matter. Bringing me along was also meant to get the nonexistent Earthly Immortal behind me involved."

"This means the force behind Chen Jiu is extremely terrifying. Even one Earthly Immortal and another Earthly Immortal whose strength had fallen to Second Grade did not feel sufficiently confident!"

"But where would I get an Earthly Immortal behind me?"

"No. There can only be an Earthly Immortal behind me!"

"I had no choice."

When immortals fought, mortals suffered.

Yang Ling did