The fluorescence around them filled the space ever more fully, enveloping the boy and girl completely.
Pei Ye held her and gradually quieted down. He said softly, "When I found out Yi Chengxin had given her whole heart to believing in the Dragon Lord, I was scared to death."
"...Mm."
"Good thing you're clever. How did you realize something was wrong with her?"
The black cat glanced at him. Li Piaoqing had always had an exquisite, discerning mind, yet this fellow always thought the girl would be swindled everywhere she went. Judging by the traces outside, she had clearly never trusted Yi Chengxin at all. If anything, the other woman might have trusted her instead.
But then the girl leaned against the boy's shoulder and said quietly, "Because you warned me before that the Fire Talisman was very dangerous."
The black cat: "..."
It rolled its green eyes and coldly interrupted their conversation. "What exactly is this place?"
Li Piaoqing straightened up. "Yi Chengxin said the [Edict-Listening God-Child] dwells in the Purple Bamboo Forest, and this is the Divine Path leading to the Purple Bamboo Secret Realm."
"Then what exactly is [Edict Transmission]?"
The two fell silent for a while.
Now that they had come this far, many things had in fact surfaced, and everyone had thought of the same thing.
They had come here because the Joy-in-Death Tower had revealed traces of its activities in Bowang, and those traces had pointed to the Torchworld Cult.
The words "Torchworld Cult" were a lead Pei Ye could not refuse.
Wu Dong had said this was intelligence the Sun-Swallowing Society had deliberately provided them.
After arriving here, they had indeed found no deeper plot by the Sun-Swallowing Society. Both the Joy-in-Death Tower and the Torchworld Cult had been caught off guard by