"A round trip takes half a year, which means the journey there should take three months. It's already been two and a half months since I purified the Fog Ashes. He should be arriving soon.
"I wonder what the situation is like on their end."
The grayish-white land gradually dissipated. Su Chen opened his eyes, having already returned to the Nether Tower.
His main goal in contacting Black Tuo this time was to determine the entity's movements and assess whether he posed an imminent threat. Asking for Divine Blood was just something done in passing; he hadn't expected Black Tuo to actually be willing to give it to him.
"My preemptive strike this time probably confused him. Since he can't be certain whether Zhou Yunyang actually lied to him, it must have dispelled some of his anger toward me—his 'believer.'
"Coupled with the fact that I indirectly set 'Su Chen' as the target for using the Divine Blood, he was willing to hand it over."
