Ominous Being Post Station.
Ren Ye looked down at the note Chu Jin had left him, his brows tightly furrowed. "What the hell is he playing at? What does this mean?!"
The handwriting on the note was neat, its strokes flowing like a dragon: "This place is not the true Divine Land, but the legendary Ominous Being Wasteland of the Nine Li Continent. Apart from the inn you see, everything else you encounter may once have truly existed. Nor is it necessarily an illusion."
"Ancient Emperor Successor, we shall meet at the summit-Chu Jin."
That line on the note came out of nowhere, abrupt and without context, leaving Ren Ye baffled for a time.
What exactly did he mean by writing something so inexplicable?
Was it simply to remind me that this place isn't an illusion, but somewhere that actually exists on the Nine Li Continent?
Seriously, man, I don't think we're that close, are we?
More importantly, what good does this reminder do? Whether this place once truly existed or is an illusion created by the Heavenly Dao Manifestation, does that affect my subsequent trials?
Even the Little Bad King, who professed to possess extraordinary intelligence, could not decipher the first half of the note. But he understood the part about meeting at the summit perfectly.
This was clearly a challenge. There could only be one successor in the Emperor's Tomb. If both of them truly reached the summit, a battle would naturally be unavoidable.
However, Chu Jin's challenge was extremely straightforward. He concealed nothing and resorted to none of his previous schemes.
His actions now were consistent with what he had said and done when they met in Western Liang.
In fact, both men understood perfectly well that, if they were still alive when they reached the end