A month had passed since he left the Sacred Land.
Revered Light City, the Underground Cavern.
Deep below.
Dongguan knew he was more than a hundred thousand meters down, but the Underground Cavern's complex terrain made the exact depth impossible to calculate.
At that moment, his entire body was embedded in the cavern wall. Before him lay a passage over a hundred kilometers wide and of unknown length.
With Body Transformation at the eighth layer and a force multiplier above eighty, Dongguan suppressed his aura with all his might, trying to blend into his surroundings.
A blurry black shadow passed through the passage, leaving countless Dark Beasts of every kind along its path.
Although the shadow had vanished, Dongguan still did not dare relax.
Only after an unknown length of time did he move slightly.
Then he burrowed into a small cave near the passage and fled frantically.
What was that thing? The Dark Lord? Dongguan recalled the enormous creature he had just seen as he ran.
Compared to the one he had encountered before entering the Light and Dark Continent, it was far smaller, and its aura was much weaker.
Despite being several kilometers in size, it only had a Domain Lord's aura. Dongguan felt he might be able to deal with it himself, but his instincts warned him that being discovered by it would be dangerous.
That made him wonder whether the thing might serve as some sort of detector.
Looks like the Underground Cavern route won't work either.
Finding an empty spot at random, Dongguan carved out a small dwelling and pondered.
He was troubled. Over the past month, he had tried all sorts of methods, but Ze had followed him through them all. In the end, he had entered the Underground Cavern.
It had been a