"Young Master Lin, what should we do now?"
Gongsun Fu looked somewhat lost as she murmured, "We originally came here to go to Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain. I never expected something like this to happen along the way."
"Should we intervene or not?"
Lin Mo could not help rubbing his temples, feeling a headache coming on.
"I only wanted to go to Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain and find the other two corpses that could help me break through to Nascent Soul, but now I've run into this unexpected mess."
"Heaven really refuses to let me, Lin Mo, off easily."
As Lin Mo sighed, Shi Lan's expression suddenly shifted, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Lin Mo?"
"You... you're Lin Mo?"
Lin Mo asked curiously, "What, do you know me?"
"You're Senior Lin, the one who refined the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill and curbed the Evil Spirit uprising in the Divine Land, then saved the Dry Jade Continent!"
Trembling all over with excitement, Shi Lan dropped to her knees before Lin Mo with a thud.
Caught completely off guard, Lin Mo asked in bewilderment, "Miss Shi Lan, what are you doing?"
Tears filled Shi Lan's eyes as she choked out, "Please, Senior Lin, help us. Save our Shadow Ink State. Save the thirty-five cities of the Southern Region."
"The Evil Spirit uprising in the north still hasn't been fully quelled, and they can barely fend for themselves. Meanwhile, the Southern Region has been invaded by the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, who has turned the cultivators into monstrous beings that devour raw flesh and drink blood."
"You're the only one who can save the Shadow Ink State now, Senior Lin!"
Faced with Shi Lan's tearful, earnest pleading, Lin Mo's heart instantly softened. He hurriedly reached out to help her up. "Miss Shi Lan,