The mysterious Qing Ru

Qing Ru frowned. "What occurred to you, Left Envoy?"

"Someone followed us into the Bridge Realm! And left it before we did..."

Qing Ru exclaimed, "Could it have been him?"

"If someone really did that, I can't think of anyone but him!"

The man they meant was Lin Xiaosu.

Outside, at the Mountain God Temple, the bizarre disappearance of two groups of guards had planted a vague image of Lin Xiaosu in the Left Envoy's mind. Now, that image seemed to be taking solid shape.

Because the Flying Eagle Army soldier had used one crucial word: again!

Again—what did that mean?

It meant they were not the first group to cross the boundary under the Flying Eagle Army's very noses.

Qing Ru mused, "If it really was him, could he also have been involved in what happened in the Abyssal Depths?"

The Left Envoy's heart jolted...

That had never occurred to him!

With Qing Ru's reminder, he suddenly seemed to glimpse a possibility...

What Li Qing had done was steeped in strangeness.

In theory, Li Qing was not someone who would do such a thing.

Her identity was far too special: she was the wife of the surface Litian Tribe's chief!

She was Shock God's mother!

There was absolutely no way she would work for the Human Race!

Yet she had done exactly that.

Something utterly unreasonable seemed to make sense when viewed from another angle: Lin Xiaosu's way of doing things. If he was behind the upheaval in the Abyssal Depths, everything truly fell into place.

It fit that brat's rotten-ass nature.

It fit his instinct for stirring up shit.

And it fit his unique mastery of appearing and disappearing like a ghost, disguising himself and changing his form...

"What the hell is there to analyze? Move!" the Ninth