"Fortunately, these dwarfs didn't leak anything." Liang's gaze flickered thoughtfully as he examined the jade scroll in his hand.
After emerging from the Yin Yang Abyssal Mountains, he hadn't gone straight to the Devil Realm to deliver the gemstone. Instead, he returned to the Dong Clan—not out of familial obligation, but for multiple strategic reasons. The first was to gather information: he needed to confirm whether the dwarfs had exposed him.
But unsurprisingly—or perhaps exactly as expected—they hadn't. It made perfect sense. With the disappearance of the Ninth King, they were now vulnerable without a divine-level expert to protect them. What Liang didn't know, however, was that their higher-ups had even sealed off the city indefinitely in response to the crisis.
