Sima You Lin didn't expect Sima You Yue to admit to it. His heart suddenly shook.
How did he know? In the face of this question, he could only say, "Just a guess."
Prior to this, he had considered more than once, the possibility that Sima You Yue was a girl. However, Sima You Ran and the others always shielded her, not allowing any male to come into close contact with her.
However, this had always just been a guess. It was only until he had hugged her and their bodies were in close proximity, where he was near her neck and got a whiff of a female's pleasant scent that he affirmed his guesses.
"You really are good at guessing." Sima You Yue was sure that she had never revealed herself in front of Sima You Lin before, so he definitely must have guessed it. At the same time, she was secretly lamenting that this guy was way too astute.
"Why do you want to pretend to be a guy?" Sima You Lin looked at her small face, inadvertently wondering what kind of surprise she would give when she revealed herself as a female.
"My father instructed my grandfather to do so when he gave me to him. My grandfather has gotten me to disguise myself as a male all these years, but I don't know the reason why either." Sima You Yue said, "You better not expose me."
"Mm." Sima You Lin nodded.
"Where is this place?" Sima You Yue saw that he had agreed, so she no longer pressed the matter. She started to evaluate the place they were currently at.
"It looks like we're in the mountains." Sima You Lin said, "Otherwise, we're underground."
The two of them used their spiritual qi to create fireb.a.l.l.s as a source of light. Those fireb.a.l.l.s revealed that they were surrounded by walls. They definitely were not within the palace, meaning that they were either underground or in the mountains.
It was at this moment that Halcyon spoke to Sima You Yue from within the Spirit PaG.o.da.
SIma You Yue heard Halcyon call out and asked, "Halcyon, what's up?"
Halcyon's expression was ugly, saying, "I came here before."
"You've come here before? Could it be that this place is" Sima You Yue's expression immediately turned apprehensive. She hoped that she was wrong.
However, Halcyon nodded his head, saying, "That's right. This is the place that keeps that creature captive. I walked past this place."
"Oh d.a.m.n, it really is that place." Sima You Yue cried out.
"Where is this place?" Sima You Lin did not know why Sima You Yue would suddenly have such a big reaction.
Wasn't Halcyon a sacred beast? Why would he have this kind of expression.
"You Lin, this is the place that Halcyon got injured at the last time." Sima You Yue said bitterly, "even he almost lost his life here. We're in for trouble this time."
Sima You Lin's heart skipped a beat as his expression turned solemn. He immediately asked, "Is there no exit?"
Halcyon shook his head, saying, "When we reached here, we already lost track of where we are. We have no way of knowing which way the exit is."
"What are we going to do now?" Sima You Yue looked at Halcyon and Sima You Lin for their opinion.
"Since we can't find an exit, let's just choose any direction and walk in it." Sima You Lin said.
Halcyon nodded as well, saying, "I'll lead the way, you all follow behind me."
Halcyon was feeling a bit bitter. He never thought that he would return to this place after leaving it not long ago.
Previously, Sima You Yue's master was the one who rescued him. However, he didn't know what was going to happen to them this time!
Sima You Yue followed behind Halcyon and her anxious heart slowly calmed down. She said, "Why would Li Mu send us here? Could it be that he knows we will definitely perish here?"
"I heard the clan leader mention before that it seems that ten thousand beast mountain contains something. That's why Saint City doesn't allow those below the age of twenty to enter. I also heard that saint city once dispatched ten over spirit paragons to an area, but not a single one returned. We probably ended up in that place." Sima You Lin mused.
"Sigh, we knew long ago that some terrifying beast was held captive here. Previously, Halcyon almost lost his life because he came down to check it out." Sima You Yue said, "What I'm more curious about is why Li Mu knows about this place."
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