"Here in Fenghai City, there's the Central Plains King's Manor, which we can't get around."
"And over here, the distant Upper Capital."
"The major cities nearby... even these major cities across the country-it's entirely possible they came from over there. Nor are Fenghai and the Upper Capital necessarily the only two places where they could operate. There are simply far, far too many possibilities..."
"Then there's the matter of Forgetting River Water. Only the Witch Alliance has that stuff, yet it appeared in Fenghai... We can almost certainly say that the Witch Alliance must have a foothold in Fenghai. And with a special treasure like Forgetting River Water, which only the Witch Alliance possesses, there must at least be some of the Witch Alliance's core Star Gates here... It's entirely possible the Witch Alliance did all this..."
"These are all clues..."
With a serious expression, Li Chenglong connected the lines to one another, as though playing a matching game with the correct answers. Before long, the page was covered in a dense tangle that anyone with a fear of closely packed patterns would surely have found unbearable.
Yet Li Chenglong wore a look of pure enjoyment. Picking out what he needed from such myriad complexities and spider-silk traces was precisely what he loved doing most.
By contrast, Zuo Xiaoduo looked thoroughly creeped out. Just looking at those densely packed lines gave him a splitting headache.
"Take your time with that. I'm going back to cultivate..."
"Oh..." Li Chenglong responded absently, then suddenly jolted. "Where are those two?"
"They're perfectly safe!" Zuo Xiaoduo vanished with a whoosh.
"Perfectly safe..."
Li Chenglong swayed his head and drew another line. "Connect it over from here... This sheet of paper is still too small... There's too little blank space left. To deduce everything in