Yet Shen Yi, seated nearby, showed no impatience or doubt as he listened to Professor Yang recount these scattered incidents from the distant past, their details blurred by time. He simply listened calmly.
To most people, these stories would sound like myths or coincidences. But to Shen Yi, if an Authority Holder on Feng Qingyao's level truly stood behind them, they were not impossible.
Given the power Feng Qingyao had displayed in the Forgotten Corridor and on the Transparent Planet, if she had watched over Blue Star through the long ages, subtly influencing a general's decision or granting a fugitive a little more instinct or luck—and thereby changing the course of a local event—might have been effortless for her. Even an stray ripple of her thoughts might have been enough.
What mattered to him was not whether these things had really happened, or whether they were truly that far-fetched.
What mattered was whether Feng Qingyao would involve herself in such things.
Judging by what Feng Qingyao had revealed and the sword she had left behind, she must have deep ties to Blue Star.
But when she had last appeared, although she had warned him about the threat of the Boundary Land and given him both advice and a gift, she had shown little inclination to intervene directly in the Black Fog disaster afflicting Blue Star.
The Black Fog had ravaged Blue Star, causing countless deaths and setting civilization back. There was no doubt how serious it was.
If Feng Qingyao truly meant to protect Blue Star, then with her abilities, even if she could not eradicate the Black Fog entirely, she should at least have been able to offer more direct help or intervene somehow.
In reality, Blue Star's Black Fog disaster had been brought under control only through Shen