The group filed into the duststorm, which nearly blotted out the sky. Behind them, the storm abruptly contracted, and the dim yellow sand became smooth as a mirror. Looking back, they could even see their own reflections.
"So this is the so-called Stone Mirror?" Lu Xiaotian found that the divine sense that had once served him so well seemed less effective since he had come to Muye. Perhaps the environment had changed too much, while his Primordial Spirit had failed to keep pace.
"Indeed. This is how the Stone Mirror Desert got its name. But the stone mirror hasn't appeared in a long time," the thick-browed old man said with a nod.
Whoosh, whoosh... Several figures made of countless grains of sand suddenly sprang out of the mirror and lunged at the group.
By then, the cool, aloof woman and the Lotus Avatar had both dismounted from the thick-browed old man and were fending off the attacks of the sand fragments ahead. The cool, aloof woman might not have been as capable as the Lotus Avatar outside, but in this environment, she was proving even more useful.
The sand figures darted toward the Lotus Avatar and the cool, aloof woman from either side. The woman spread her wings, drawing some of the sand around her into her control and forming two walls of sand to shield herself. The moment the sand figures passed through the walls, the crystalline sand she unleashed struck them head-on, and they exploded with a crash.
The flying swords of varying auras circling the Lotus Avatar also cut down the sand figures, but the immortal essence they consumed was clearly much greater.
When Lu Xiaotian looked back again, the stone mirror had silently shifted to the left. The two shadows within it were more solid than