Gu Qing memorized the phone number and asked calmly, "What should I call you?"
The short-haired woman answered, "My name is Lu Yan. Lu as in land, Yan as in color."
"All right, I'll remember you."
Gu Qing said in a low voice, "If there's nothing else, I'll be going. Until we meet again."
Leaving those words behind like a reclusive master, he turned and vanished into the dense forest.
A few seconds later.
He appeared on a nearby road.
He climbed onto the heavy motorcycle parked by the roadside.
He twisted the throttle.
Man and motorcycle became a blur.
He sped back to Night Court Headquarters.
The Origin Land.
In a dark stretch of dense forest.
Wisps of cool Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy intertwined with swathes of cold demonic energy, constantly churning and surging as they merged.
The two completely different energies blended, so concentrated that they condensed into liquid and dripped down, nourishing the vegetation on the ground and causing it to mutate and grow wildly.
At the center of the forest stood an unimaginably enormous Heaven-Piercing Ancient Tree.
Its trunk was as massive as a mountain, and countless huge branches spread out in every direction, laden with exotic flowers and fruits wreathed in demonic energy, obscuring a vast expanse of sky.
Crack, crack!
Several cracking sounds suddenly came from the thick, sturdy trunk.
Immediately afterward.
An aged face wearing a faintly pained expression slowly emerged from the trunk.
It calmed its mind and concentrated, carefully examining its Divine Soul.
Only after confirming that nothing was seriously wrong did it murmur gravely:
"That woman is on Earth, which means that fiend must be on Earth too."
"Even if I have to dig through the entire Earth, I must find him and kill him."
"Body and soul!"