In the void, a black sail fluttered in the wind, its surface gleaming with a sinister black radiance.
No matter how slow Ning Hua was, by this point she had finally realized that the person before her was absolutely not that ancient demon fox.
She stared at Lin Fan and parted her red lips, but her hesitant expression was so awkwardly amusing that it left one not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Lin Fan withdrew the Wuji Sail and said, "Speak plainly if you have something to say."
Ning Hua stammered, "Master, you are..."
"Who I am isn't important. What matters is that you'll live if you obey."
"Yunshan County Magistrate arranged for people like you to come in not merely to harvest the Earth Vein Spirit Flowers. More importantly, he wanted to use you to monitor our movements, right?"
Ning Hua's pretty face turned deathly pale as she swiftly removed the silver bracelet from her wrist.
Lin Fan took the silver bracelet and saw the problem at a glance.
It looked like a storage artifact, but it retained a trace of a unique aura. As long as they were not more than a thousand li apart, Yunshan County Magistrate could use that trace of aura to sense the pair's exact location.
Lin Fan's eyes shifted slightly. He then took a bracelet from his storage bag—the very item Yunshan County Magistrate had given him when they first met.
"Master, how do you have a Heavenly Heart Bracelet too?"
Ning Hua was astonished.
Expressionless, Lin Fan casually crushed both bracelets to pieces.
"Let's go."
He then led Ning Hua onward.
Ning Hua obediently followed behind Lin Fan, not daring to make the slightest move.
She could clearly sense that if she dared to act rashly, a single thought from him