"Brother Qi Ye, why are you so distracted?"
Beneath the azure sky, the army hurried toward Chang'an. Wu Quan rode beside Lin Qiye and asked in confusion.
"...I just find something strange."
"Strange?"
"Anything involving the Cthulhu Mythos is never simple. I smashed that crimson meteorite and released the Iridescent Mist inside... Something unexpected did indeed appear, but it still feels like it ended rather anticlimactically."
Lin Qiye looked back once more. The mountain ravine shrouded in Iridescent Mist was now so distant it was almost out of sight.
"He could clearly have disguised himself as any one of us, so why did he choose me? Didn't he know that my Primordial Spirit Embryo was the hardest to replicate?"
"Brother Qi Ye, aren't you overthinking this?" Wu Quan consoled him. "Even if that meteorite really was something from the Cthulhu Mythos, it was only a fragment split off from the crimson star... Maybe its power simply wasn't as strong as you imagined? Or perhaps it hadn't expected the existence of the Primordial Spirit Embryo?"
Lin Qiye frowned. He glanced at Wu Quan beside him, then suddenly asked, "Wu Quan, did you put away the forbidden item Shen Qingzhu gave you?"
Wu Quan froze at those words, asking in confusion, "When did Brother Qing Zhu ever give me a forbidden item?"
Hearing this, Lin Qiye visibly relaxed. He shook his head. "It's nothing..."
Shen Qingzhu had naturally never given Wu Quan a forbidden item. Lin Qiye had asked only to make sure Wu Quan had not secretly been replaced. The Iridescent Mist was far too strange; caution was best.
"Lin Qiye." A voice called from afar.
Lin Qiye turned his head and saw Zhan Yuwu riding toward him.
Evil Spirits were not as rampant during the day as they were at