The eight figures speeding through the air seemed to notice the nightfall here as well. The hurricanes swirling around them began to slow, coming to a stop before the Somersault Cloud.
The leading figure stared at Lin Qiye and slowly lifted the broad brim of his hat, revealing a familiar face.
"Old Dog Wu..."
Lin Qiye recognized this "fellow patient" from Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital at once, his expression incomparably complicated.
When he had encountered the seven Black Coffins being transported to the Abstinence Hall on that island, Lin Qiye had roughly guessed what would happen. Yet seeing the once-crazed Old Dog Wu standing before him in a black cloak, a straight blade hanging at his waist, still made everything feel like a lifetime ago.
"Lin Qiye." Old Dog Wu's voice was somewhat hoarse. He gave a bitter smile. "We meet again."
"It's been over three years, hasn't it?" Lin Qiye's gaze swept over the seven black figures behind him. "I never thought that, in the end, you would leave that hospital and become the captain of Spirit Medium..."
"You too."
Old Dog Wu and Lin Qiye exchanged a glance, smiling faintly in mutual understanding.
Who could have imagined that the only two patients in the Abstinence Hall hospital more than three years ago would transform into leaders of two of Great Xia's most elite Special Squads, about to head for the battlefield of the gods?
"So your ability now is Spirit Medium?" Lin Qiye recalled Old Dog Wu's Formless and asked.
"Mm." Old Dog Wu nodded slightly. "Your Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone and Wu Quan's Emperor of Domination are both powerful, but neither suits me... Perhaps this ability is where I was always meant to end up."
As his words fell, Old Dog Wu turned back to glance at