Bang--
The tightly shut car door was suddenly shoved open. Hao Yi bit down on a white fruit and struggled to crawl out of the car, looking at the scorched black ground outside.
One item after another floated up behind him.
"I don't know what your relationship with Truth is, or how you pleased the gods,"
The figure formed from starlight in the sky lowered its head and looked at He Ao below. Dense gray arrows rested on bowstrings made from zither strings, aimed at He Ao.
The drawn strings gradually tightened, pulled into a full draw like a round moon.
The lightning flashing around them had begun to fade. The Starlight Figure's trembling voice continued to echo through the void. His fingers hooked around the strings before him. "But that doesn't matter. Every gift in this world will reclaim its price at the proper time. It's just not time yet."
He Ao watched the Starlight Figure and slightly moved his right hand behind his back.
At that instant, several arrows in the sky turned and aimed at his right hand.
"I know you must have prepared a ritual to summon a god, intending to repeat what you did before, but..." He smiled at He Ao. "Do you think I'll give you the chance?"
Hum--
At that moment, he released the fingers gripping the strings.
The gray arrows instantly shot free.
The countless gray arrows surrounding He Ao in a sphere also flew from their strings at the same time, rushing toward him.
Brilliant arrow-light streaked across the sky, tearing invisible cracks through the dim void.
Through the Eye of Truth, He Ao could even see the violently churning ripples rising in the bottom layer of the world as the gray arrows passed through it.
Those ripples, cracks, and