To the notion that the two were off indulging in their love, everyone looked perplexed, feeling something was amiss, yet it seemed to make sense?
Monk Shan Ci pressed his palms together and sighed, "Good, good. Marital fate is ordained by heaven and unrelated to us, let’s eat!"
Hearing this, everyone indeed bowed their heads and continued eating.
Unaware of everything happening at home, the pair arrived at the edge of a cliff, dusty and fatigued. The moon was not yet climbing, and at this time, the cliff was enshrouded in darkness.
Bai Junjun pointed in a hidden direction and said, "Going down from here is the entrance to the Humming Abyss, but we only have one token. What should we do?"
Li Wenli glanced at the sky and said, "That’s easy to solve. As long as Miss cooperates with me, the two of us can become as one."
"?" Bai Junjun frowned. "Are you trying to flirt?"
Li Wenli’s eyebrows twitched from surprise to amusement, and after a stifled laugh, he said, "Miss, where did your mind wander to? Trick Spells aren’t just for those in the Itinerant World."
With a moonlit and star-scarce sky, the vast wilderness was filled with distorted reflections of trees, some crooked and twisted, others sinister and chilling, bringing a heaviness different from the day.
People on the Stilted Building were patrolling earnestly when a stooped figure leisurely emerged from the gloomy forest.
The person raced over, stopping in front of the Stilted Building after a moment.
The guard became alert: "Who’s there?"
Following this challenge, the crossbows of all ten Stilted Buildings were simultaneously aimed at the stooped figure.
A suffocating pressure as if from an army of thousands bore down.
The Cloak Person did not panic and slowly pulled out a token from their bosom, on which a glimmer of ghostly light flashed from a blue tiger head.
The person who saw the Tiger Head Token was surprised, "Chief, you’ve come so early tonight?"
Usually, to avoid drawing attention, the Chiefs would only come at midnight, yet today?
As everyone was puzzled, a hoarse voice softly started, "The master will arrive shortly, I’ve come ahead to check for any oversights. You must all stay vigilant during this time, and make sure not to capsize the boat in a small ditch."
"Yes," with no suspicion, everyone bowed in respect.
The Cloak Person then walked past the attentive crowd through the Stilted Building.
About a hundred meters from the Stilted Building was a cliff face with a single entrance, above which were scattered cave openings, clearly feeling eyes like phantoms intensely watching from inside.
The Cloak Person walked calmly into the cave.
But the cloaked elder barely perceptibly let out a sigh of relief.
Who could have thought, just a short distance in, three paths appeared before him - left, middle, right.
Caught at a crossroads, the Cloak Person also didn’t know which way to go and paused for a moment.
Bai Junjun on Li Wenli’s back sensed his pause and involuntarily flinched.
That’s right... The Cloak Person was actually Bai Junjun and Li Wenli in disguise.
Luckily, when they turned over Manager Qiao’s room earlier, they found the cloak.
So, when impersonating Manager Qiao, Li Wenli carried Bai Junjun on his back, using Wind Power to fill out the profile of the person he was carrying, making them resemble a stooped old man.
After completing the disguise, the two walked brazenly into the Stilted Building.
Luckily, both were used to facing grand scenes, so even in such circumstances, they were not intimidated and acted as if everything was normal.
But what good was successfully infiltrating the place if a new problem arose?
Facing the three unknown paths, how should they choose?