Boom!!!
Shattered stones flew everywhere.
In an instant, the enormous stone hand descending from the sky was blasted into rubble by an unseen force, like an explosive detonating.
"This..."
Watching the astonishing scene of flying sand and tumbling rocks, Black Wind was greatly shocked. Just as he instinctively tried to flee farther away, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder, followed by that familiar voice.
"Where do you think you're running to?"
Black Wind jolted, but before he could make another move, his scalp flared with pain. The hair on his head was grabbed, his feet left the ground... and Black Wind inwardly cried out in alarm.
The next moment, Black Wind was lifted into the air and swung down, smashing heavily into the ground.
Bang!
A dull thud rang out.
A large crater appeared in the ground.
Black Wind landed face-first, his entire face nearly reduced to a bloody pulp. The sensations within a mental dream were no different from reality, so it felt as though he had truly been smashed in the real world. The pain left his mind hazy. As his concentration slipped, his whole body began to twist, on the verge of reverting to his original form... but at the critical moment, he remembered the Queen's orders. He had even made a military pledge, guaranteeing that he absolutely would not screw this up.
He forcibly stabilized the form that had been about to revert. He had figured it out too. So what if Leina suspected that he was not Cheng Yaowen?
He did not need Leina to completely believe him. He only needed to plant a seed of doubt in her mind. Given enough times, he refused to believe that even the most mild-tempered person would not eventually erupt.
So he could not revert to his