"Fellow Daoist Changqing, you truly know many secrets unknown to the world!"
Houtu's words were not a question, but an utterly certain declaration.
The reason was simple!
Everything Gu Changqing had shown earlier suggested that the sights within the Underworld did not surprise him.
It felt as though he had long known that this was precisely how the Underworld should look.
He had even said it was "exactly as the legends described."
But before this, when had there ever been any legends of the Underworld?
In truth, even Houtu had never imagined that such a place as the Underworld would exist before she attained the Dao and became a Sage.
All of this was enough to prove that Gu Changqing possessed many earth-shattering secrets unknown to anyone else.
It would be no exaggeration to say that he had already seen through the future and known that the Underworld would inevitably appear.
How could Houtu not be shocked?!
As for Gu Changqing!
Hearing Houtu's words, he froze for a moment.
Then something else occurred to him.
He lifted the Wine Gourd and gulped down several great mouthfuls of fine wine.
Only then did Gu Changqing chuckle, his voice carrying its usual drunken haze:
"Hehe, secrets..."
"Perhaps... hic... so!"
His reply made Houtu raise her brows in bewildered surprise once again.
Strange!
Far too strange!
Given Gu Changqing's temperament, he usually used his drunkenness to conceal his many secrets.
Houtu had thought he would surely "play the fool" this time as well, denying everything as firmly as he could.
Yet she had never expected his words to all but admit it.
Little did she know!
The two of them were now within the Underworld.
This was, one could say, the only place in existence that the Heavenly Dao could never probe.
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