Seeing the young man vanish before her eyes, Ye Guyi's mouth fell open.
When she looked down and found that her own body had turned transparent too, her jaw dropped even farther.
"We'll sneak in quietly. If we encounter any Evil Soul Masters, don't rush to attack. We can assess the situation first."
Afraid Ye Guyi might act on impulse and ruin everything, Lu Yi reminded her in a low voice.
But they were both completely transparent, and he heard no response from her. With a sigh, he asked again, "Did you hear me?"
"Mm... Got it!"
At that, Lu Yi set off, taking the lead.
"Keep up."
The underground Passageway was long, sloping downward at an angle so slight it was hard to notice. Oil lamps glimmered only at wide intervals along the way.
As he walked through the gloom, Lu Yi could hear only faint footsteps and breathing behind him.
After roughly two hundred meters, he rounded a corner and spotted light ahead. His steps immediately grew more cautious.
Ye Guyi seemed to notice the change as well and muffled her breathing and footsteps as much as she could.
As they drew closer, the faint smell of blood in the Passageway swelled into an unbearable stench.
Lu Yi had caught a trace of such a smell during the operation to wipe out the Hand of Death. A stench this strong could only come from countless corpses.
He had prepared himself for what he might find, but when he reached the end of the passageway and saw the enormous pit, he still struggled to believe that a heap of corpses on such a scale lay hidden beneath Mingdu's slums.
This was no deserted wilderness like the Mingdou Mountains. Even if the Sun Moon Empire tacitly permitted most of the