"Miss Mu?"
Luo Er saw the figure standing before the small courtyard of Spring Rain Temple.
Mu Wanqiu still looked somewhat bewildered.
She had no idea... why Gu Shen had summoned her here this time.
She only knew that news of the supergiant Source Matter Storm had thrown the upper echelons of the Five Continents back into a state of war readiness. The Northern Continent was now busy as a beehive. If not for Gu Shen's summons, she would still be dealing with a mountain of trivial matters in the Investigation Corps...
Only Gu Shen could summon her.
"So... this is the master of the 'Underworld Fire' you chose?"
Luo Er's voice was complicated.
When those words reached Mu Wanqiu's ears, she became even more confused.
"Master of the Underworld Fire?... Me?"
She stood dumbly at the entrance and pointed at herself.
"That's right."
Gu Shen said seriously, "This is the master of the Underworld Fire I chose... Mu Wanqiu, stop looking around. It's you."
"???"
Mu Wanqiu froze where she stood.
She had rushed all the way to Nagano, originally intending to confront him and see what earthshaking matter had made Gu Shen summon her here.
Yet his very first words after opening the door left her utterly stunned.
"I violated the Soul Oath I made. As Oathbreaking Punishment, I will lose control over the Underworld Fire."
Gu Shen said casually, "I called you here today to give you this Fire Seed."
Nothing like this had ever happened in the six hundred years of the Five Continents.
The owner of a Fire Seed was still alive, yet the Fire Seed itself had changed hands!
Mu Wanqiu looked at Gu Shen with a complicated expression. Why did she feel that when he said those words, his tone was so calm