Inside the cockpit, Luo Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Was I seeing things?"
The reason he had asked that was because, during the close-range exchange just now, he had seen a strange symbol appear deep within the eyes of the Qin Worm's beast soul.
The symbol was formed from countless writhing little snakes. It looked extremely sinister.
But when Luo Yan looked again, the symbol had already vanished from the Qin Worm's beast soul. That was why he had asked the question.
At the same time.
Inside Magic Mushroom City.
Night blanketed the earth, while the starry sky glittered brilliantly.
Two figures sat in a carriage on a Ferris wheel covered in fungi. The wheel had stopped turning long ago.
One was dressed in red, the other in green.
The pale-skinned woman in red hummed a little tune from somewhere. The tune carried a faint nasal quality and an indescribable allure.
But suddenly, she stopped.
Then she stood up at once.
The woman in the green skirt beside her jumped in fright.
"Sister, what's wrong?" Qing Lian asked. She had been traveling with Hong Shang for a long time, and had rarely seen the woman lose her composure like this.
Divine light shifted through Hong Shang's beautiful eyes, and confusion filled her expression. "The Chi Talisman I planted on the Qin Worm has been discovered."
Qing Lian was astonished. "How is that possible? Your Chi Talisman was planted inside its beast soul to share the Qin Worm's senses. When necessary, you could remotely control it, using its life as the price to stimulate it into evolving to a higher level in a short time."
"With your methods, how could a mere human possibly see through it?"
Hong Shang shook her head. "I don't know."
"I can think of only one