Although Li Chen couldn’t completely trust Zi Zhao, he still trusted him more than those guys in the conference room.
In Li Chen’s eyes, Zi Zhao was simply a pure businessman.
Such a pure businessman, having invested so much with him, couldn’t possibly give it up.
One could say that Zi Zhao’s blatant collaboration with the Palace of the Nether King this ti was essentially him going all in with his investnts.
Would a businessman who has gone all in just watch his investnt lose value before his eyes?
So Li Chen was relatively trusting of Zi Zhao. Moreover, after hearing from Catherine that Zi Zhao had indeed provided considerable help to the Palace of the Nether King lately, he felt even more at ease.
The stance he had just taken in the conference room was rely a performance for others to see.
Who would have thought that the Market Master Zi Zhao, known for his smooth dealings, would actually choose to place his bets on such a nascent martial artist power?
Even after Zi Zhao left, Li Chen no longer pondered over the so-called alliance matters.
After all, even without his presence, he believed Catherine could handle things well.
The strengthening of the Palace of the Nether King was a good thing after all. As several grandfathers had said, the Li Family had no shortage of enemies. Now that the Palace of the Nether King had grown stronger, those with insufficient power would have to think twice about targeting them.
Li Chen first checked on the various generals of the Nether Army. Seeing that almost everyone was striving to improve their strength, he decided not to disturb them and instead headed to Alice’s personal laboratory.
"Dear Lord Nether King, it’s been a while, have you missed ?" Alice, seemingly engrossed in so data, swiftly changed her expression upon seeing Li Chen enter.
Li Chen said nothing, just stared at Alice.
"Alright," Alice pouted, "Boss, you’re still the sa, no sense of humor at all."
"Okay, okay," Li Chen shook his head in slight resignation. "Stop teasing. I ca here to ask if there’s anything new happening. If you’re really lonely, I can introduce you to so good n. I think Chu Pojun and Heishou are not bad, they’re both honest guys."
"Tsk, those two are so full of brotherly camaraderie, what do they know about won? You’re the only one who understands, Boss. Anyway, you already have so many, one more like wouldn’t be too much. Why don’t you consider ?" Alice said with a blink.
Li Chen found it difficult to accept: "If you keep this up, I’ll leave."
"Alright, alright," Alice flicked her hair, a bit annoyed, "Forget it, you’re just as clueless about romance."
After exchanging a few playful words, they returned to the table where Alice sorted her files.
"Recently, things have been calm in Linchuan and the surrounding areas, with nothing happening. However, it seems there were two significant battles in Yinyang not long ago, and the aura detection we collected indicates that those who made a move are definitely above Earth Level," Alice said.
Li Chen was astonished to hear this. How did they find out? Just how extensive had Alice’s intelligence system beco?
"Other than that, everything is peaceful outside. So were unwilling to see us grow and wanted to secretly take action against us," Alice said. "But a few elders stepped in and handled it easily."
"What about internally?" Li Chen thought of the people he’d seen earlier and couldn’t help but ask, "Have there been any internal issues?"
Upon hearing this, Alice’s expression beca sowhat hesitant.
"Just say whatever it is. If there are issues, they need to be resolved. Sotis, internal issues can be more damaging than external ones," Li Chen said, noticing Alice’s expression.
"Actually, there’s no issue with our people. The martial artists who have proactively befriended us are financially struggling, so they wouldn’t dare to cause trouble, but...there indeed have been so problems lately," Alice nodded.
"What problems?" Li Chen frowned, vaguely sensing sothing from Alice’s words.
Looking at Li Chen, Alice didn’t say much more and simply whispered a single na.
"Netherworld."
...
Li Chen stood in front of an underground-modified secret chamber.
From the exterior, Li Chen could tell that this chamber was clearly made entirely of alloy, extrely hard, and it would take so ti to break it open even with his strength.
Moreover, Li Chen felt a faint energy swirling around this alloy chamber.
This energy was quite subtle, but it was indeed present.
From Alice’s mouth, Li Chen learned that this energy was actually a layer of a defensive formation laid down by Fourth Grandfather.
Laying a strong defensive formation around the hardest alloy chamber, what level of treatnt was this?
Li Chen looked at the chamber door in front of him and couldn’t help but reveal a wry smile.
"Netherworld, oh Netherworld, what have you done?"
After pondering for a mont, Li Chen began to follow Alice’s instructions, taking out a piece of jade and placing it into a groove beside the chamber.
At the entrance, the formation’s energy gradually weakened.
After a while, the chamber door started to tremble; obviously, this alloy door was not only solid, but also quite heavy.
Watching the gradually opening alloy door, Li Chen didn’t hesitate to step inside.
The chamber was large, nearly the size of half a football field, yet it wasn’t dim; on the contrary, it was very bright.
In the corner of this chamber, there was a small house-like structure, which according to Li Chen’s thoughts should be where Netherworld usually rested.
There was nothing else in the chamber, indicating that Netherworld had returned to that small house to rest.
It’s just not clear why Alice transferred Netherworld from the previous chamber to this one.
According to Li Chen’s thoughts, last ti, Netherworld had issues with evolution, and after obtaining the Myriad Gu Crystal he brought back, Netherworld’s evolution should proceed smoothly; could it be that another issue had arisen?
Although he asked Alice, she seed unable to explain clearly, only saying that Netherworld seed to have another problem, and it wasn’t a small one.
With that said, he had to co see for himself.
"Netherworld!"
Li Chen walked into the chamber, coming near the small house, and called out softly.
After Li Chen’s voice fell, there seed to be a rustling sound from within the small house.
Before long, a small head peeked out from the small house, followed by a body, gradually erging from within.
As he looked at the Netherworld in front of him, the expression on Li Chen’s face was one of continuous shock.
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