He was back!
As soon as Xu Yuan got home, he set the Formation Disc to "clean" mode to clear the dust coating the furniture, then stripped off his clothes and took a shower. The trip had been well worth it.
Passing the Special Admission Test was all but certain.
Now he only had to wait for the results to be announced.
That meant...
He had completed "Lone Walk in the Dark," the third event in the Peerless Hero Series!
After his shower, he hurried to the hospital to see his mother.
She was doing fine.
Only then did Xu Yuan relax. He rushed home, planning to make himself some noodles.
That was when he noticed a missed call on his phone.
Zhao Afei!
Xu Yuan called him back.
The call connected immediately.
"Hey, Afei."
"A welcome-back dinner? Haha, you really don't have to. Where?"
"Okay, I'll be there on time!"
He hung up.
Then he made a First Turn.
Someone was standing on the windowsill.
It was already winter, yet the man still held a fan, giving it an occasional flick.
"Your Highness, don't you ever have anything to do?"
Xu Yuan stared at him in surprise.
He opened the window and let Lu Qingxuan into the living room.
"After you left, I assembled another team and activated the Zhou Tian Instrument again," Lu Qingxuan said.
"Didn't the Zhou Tian Instrument blow up?" Xu Yuan asked, even more surprised.
"It was repaired," Lu Qingxuan said.
"Then what happened?" Xu Yuan asked.
Lu Qingxuan waved his fan as he spoke:
"This time I gathered exceptionally well-trained people. Like me, they all suppressed their cultivation to the Qi Refining Realm specifically to gather intelligence." "We found a lot of suspicious things...
"Those Ghost Monsters must have been working with the All