As soon as the old white-colored beast saw Meng Hao appear back in the second level, he looked a bit surprised.
"Considering your cultivation base, you were doomed to fail," he said, his voice echoing about. "And yet, you didn't perish in there…." He looked deeply at Meng Hao, and when he noticed his tattered, charred clothing, his suspicions mostly vanished.
Meng Hao smiled wryly and shook his head, then took a deep breath.
"Senior, I was crude and rash. I thought that my cultivation base was different, and that I could give it a try. I never thought that, as you mentioned, I would fail…. Thankfully, I didn't get too close, otherwise I would have ended up dead and buried in there."
The old beast nodded, and Meng Hao clasped hands and bowed. The old beast did nothing to prevent Meng Hao from vanishing into the exit portal.
As for Lu Bai, he silently watched Meng Hao leave.
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