Looking at the stockings and high heels in the photograph, Xu Le narrowed his eyes slightly.
He turned to check the movement in the passage above. Glimmering points of light began appearing at its far end, seemingly descending rapidly.
Xu Le briefly assessed his condition: injured, physically exhausted, mentally drained.
The only thing worth bragging about was probably that his Spirit Energy was practically full.
"This feeling... it doesn't seem like the Night Watchers..."
Xu Le glanced up again, then began forming hand seals.
"Spell Formula: Boundary-Crossing Gate."
Spirit Energy surged, and the surrounding air rippled, but the Boundary-Crossing Gate Xu Le had expected did not appear.
Instead, layers of golden markings emerged on the sticky walls around him.
Xu Le seemed to have seen these markings somewhere before.
"The ones I saw on the Golden Radiance Tree when my soul left my body... some kind of spatial sealing effect?"
Xu Le knew that this was most likely some kind of testing site connected to the Golden Tree.
To ensure that its existence would not be leaked or relocated, the people truly responsible for guarding this place had laid down a Sealing Space Spell Formula array here long ago.
That meant the passage was the only way out.
The clues were gradually becoming clearer, but now he was trapped.
Fleeing to his big brother for refuge would let him survive, but he would probably never be able to uncover the truth, nor determine whether Mo Chen was actually dead.
Besides, even if he fled to his big brother, there was a limit to how long he could remain in the Land of Darkness.
If the people coming stayed here on guard, leaving would still be risky.
"This really is a mess."
He summoned Toad again, then swung himself onto Toad's