"Kumironi, you're back?"
Before them was a vista of towering mountains. Chi Cheng, his great sword slung over his shoulder, sat on a scorched-red rock to the side.
Obades was also standing guard nearby.
"Iz went off to explore the ruins by himself. He said you'd definitely be back and told us to wait here."
Kumironi smiled.
'That's just like Iz.'
"Kumironi, you look like you have something on your mind," Chi Cheng asked, chewing on a foxtail grass stem.
"Chi Cheng, I met Little Lu Cang in there."
"The details are a bit complicated..."
Kumironi began to recount what had happened to her. Lu Cang's Unsolvable Mystery had offered almost no resistance to her, so she could easily recall the events.
The Secret Sea, the Abyss of the Sea, Earth, Demonization, the Pure White Descent Ritual...
'Lu Cang... can actually beat a Tier Eight Demon now?'
'And it was a complete curb-stomp victory?'
This made Chi Cheng's heart sink a little.
