"A fine place..." Shen Luo's heart stirred at the Ghost General's words. He rose, transformed into a streak of blue light, and flew toward the location the Ghost General had indicated.
Along the way, he tried contacting the Ghost General through voice transmission, only to find that he received no reply.
Though somewhat puzzled, he could only reach the place before deciding what to do next.
A short while later, Shen Luo landed near a certain stretch of the sand sea. The terrain here lay far lower than the surrounding sands, forming a long strip twenty or thirty li in length. It looked rather strange.
Shen Luo extended his divine sense to investigate, and his expression soon changed.
Many ruined buildings lay buried deep beneath this stretch of sand sea. They appeared to form a large city. Though it could not compare with Chang'an, it rivaled Jianye City in size. He had no idea which dynasty had built it.
Through his divine soul connection with the Ghost General, Shen Luo could barely sense that he was somewhere deep beneath these ruins, but could not pinpoint his exact location.
He tried sending another voice transmission to the Ghost General, but received no response to either of his two attempts.
His brows furrowed. He took out an Earth-Escape Talisman, affixed it to himself, and transformed into a streak of yellow light that plunged underground, descending steadily.
As he burrowed deeper, the geomagnetic energy and various subterranean fiendish energies within the earth grew denser. The yellow light bestowed by the Earth-Escape Talisman gradually struggled to withstand them.
With a sweep of his sleeve, a gray cloak appeared on Shen Luo's body. It was the one he had seized from the fox demon in Cloud Dream Marsh.
He did not know the cloak's name,