Nie Li was speechless too. Did this guy really have to be so sensitive? They were both men. What exactly was he afraid of?
Xiao Yu, too, had grievances he could not voice, and frustration simmered inside him. He wanted to see just how long Nie Li would take to unravel the inscriptions. As far as he knew, although Nie Li's mastery of inscriptions was profound, it was only on par with his own. Yet Nie Li still had the nerve to complain that he was slow.
"I've unraveled it."
Xiao Yu was dumbstruck. He had not even finished his inward grumbling, and Nie Li was already done?
Nie Li explained that if they really followed Xiao Yu's method and unraveled all three hundred inscriptions, they would discover that they had merely gone around in a great circle and returned to the starting point.
They only needed to uncover their true essence and unravel five of them.
Nie Li grumbled that it was clearly something that could be finished in a few breaths, yet Xiao Yu insisted on spending so long on it.
Xiao Yu was left speechless, choking on his words. His skills were inferior, so what could he do? Nie Li might have a vicious mouth, but his mastery in this field truly exceeded anything Xiao Yu had imagined.
Next, it was Xiao Yu's turn to act.
The recess in the great gate had a matching key, one used for passage throughout the Nether Realm. Almost every demigod-rank expert had one.
The two exerted themselves together, and Xiao Yu pushed off lightly with his toes, climbing up the gate.
Nie Li also began deciphering the most complicated inscription.
The great gate opened.
The commotion of the opening gate drew not only the giant skeleton's attention, but also that