Vermilion Bird nodded. "Let's hope so.
But even if she kept Blazing Sun, it wouldn't do her any good, would it?
Only Tower Master Jiu can use Blazing Sun. Even if it were September, using Blazing Sun would still come at an enormous cost."
"Someone will help her." The High Priest thought of that strange bald man. His palm gently stroked the cover of the book, delicate and grotesque.
"The questions we can't solve can be answered in Tingfeng City. That's also why I sent Blazing Sun to Long Mountain."
The book's cover looked like a human face peeled off alive.
Its features had warped from being shriveled and hollow. Its mouth was grinning, stretching all the way to the edges of the book, while two patterned beads were embedded in its eyes. It looked incredibly eerie.
Vermilion Bird disliked the book. Whenever she saw it, she thought of those terrible memories.
No matter which angle she viewed it from, she felt as though she were staring into those eyes, making her scalp prickle.
She asked, "Will Jiang You suspect that you deliberately sent Blazing Sun to Long Mountain again? After all, she sent the Heart of Black Flame back before."
"She might suspect it, but she'll keep anything useful.
"A greedy monster won't reject tempting prey because of any risk. We're all the same, so I understand her..."
Just as the High Priest was about to open the human-face book, fear appeared in Vermilion Bird's eyes, and she quickly slipped into the darkness behind him.
If the Heart of Black Flame was a medium, then that book was the source of all their power.
It was just that everyone remembered how terrifying that source of power was...
After the High Priest went to sleep, Vermilion Bird went to White