"Friend?" Bai Xiaoyun asked, somewhat puzzled upon hearing Shen Luo's words.
"Little Gui, can you show yourself?" Shen Luo communicated telepathically.
After waiting for a moment and not receiving any response, just as Shen Luo was about to ask again, a vortex suddenly appeared in the water beside him, and a faint green figure emerged from it.
Shen Luo looked over and saw a man of ordinary appearance and fair features, appearing to be in his thirties or forties, slightly hunched in stature, dressed in a black robe, and his arms hanging down to his knees.
Bai Xiaoyun immediately recognized that this was a disguise of a monster's soul and his heart couldn't help but tighten. He was both surprised at the identity of the figure and startled at his own previous failure to sense its presence.
"Apologies, the movement involved in manifesting my true form can attract much attention, so I had to appear in this form." The man in the black robe slightly bowed towards Shen Luo.