A City Gone Strange

Luo Qingqing's expression turned grave.

Listeners could save the world? That was complete nonsense.

In that brief statement alone, she heard countless flaws—the Bureau of Military Affairs had never made any such prophecy, and to them, Listeners were objects to be controlled and used. In essence, Listeners were not much different from other sorcerers. If she had to describe them, they were simply sharper swords. Whether the blade slew evil or butchered the innocent depended entirely on the Listener themself.

According to Qian Yan, there had been no shortage of Listeners wreaking havoc upon the world during the final years of the Yong Dynasty. Even she had personally hunted down sorcerers who wielded Immortal Arts.

Besides, Luo Qingqing herself was a Listener.

She had sworn an oath to The Gate, but The Gate had never required her to remain kind.

In other words, so long as she followed the Path of Order, even the most cold and merciless order would not violate her oath.

That alone was enough to show how absurd the rumor was.

But the information the children provided went far beyond that. During the Bureau of Military Affairs era, Listeners had been among the highest secrets; only Sentinels were qualified to know of them. Ordinary Qi Sense Users did not even know they had a chance to awaken a second time. This meant the Salvation Sect was not some folk religion spontaneously formed by commoners as in the past. At the very least, its founder possessed information that ordinary people could never possibly know.

Secondly, the Salvation Sect dared to make the matter of Listeners public, proving that they clearly knew the Bureau of Military Affairs had fallen completely into paralysis and no longer had the strength to interfere in the affairs of You Province. If the