The moment they entered the Three Corpses Cave, they understood just how vast it was. It was like a maze.
Hundreds of passages crisscrossed one another, making it impossible to tell which paths were open and which were dead ends.
Seeing this, Ye Qingcheng frowned slightly.
"Do you have a way?" she asked.
Xu Zimo thought for a moment before finally taking out the Traceless Compass.
It was specifically used to search for people, but there was one condition: it needed something belonging to the person as a guide in order to find them.
It could not locate someone at random.
"Do you have anything belonging to Ruhu on you?" Xu Zimo asked.
Ye Qingcheng hesitated.
Finally, she said, "I have one of his garments."
"Then bring it out," Xu Zimo said.
Ye Qingcheng hesitated somewhat, blushing as she took out Lin Ruhu's outer robe.
Earlier, she had claimed that she had no feelings for Lin Ruhu and merely wanted to repay his life-saving grace. Yet she had even kept his clothes. Wasn't that an unspoken confession?
Fortunately, Xu Zimo did not dwell on it. He placed the garment atop the Traceless Compass.
The compass began to spin.
Its rotation grew faster and faster. Xu Zimo knew this was because Lin Ruhu was nearby, making the search much easier.
Sure enough, before long, the Traceless Compass stopped spinning, and a wisp of white aura appeared within the Three Corpses Cave.
"Follow this aura, and we'll find Ruhu," Xu Zimo said.
He took the lead, with Ye Qingcheng close behind him.
The two walked for a while.
At the bend of a corner, they encountered their first obstacle.
It was a monster with four legs and two faces, one on the front of its head and one on the back.
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