"Mm... Brother Ye."
After a bout of dizzying disorientation, Jiang Mian opened her eyes again and found herself tightly held in Ye Chenyang's arms.
All around them was the lightless Void Realm. They seemed to have strayed quite far from the main world.
She twisted her waist, trying to wriggle free from his embrace, only for him to hold her even tighter.
"Don't move."
Ye Chenyang's voice was somewhat weak. It seemed the spatial turbulence just now had drained him considerably.
Jiang Mian obediently stopped moving, merely rubbing her face against his as she asked:
"Brother Ye, where's Sister Jiang Li?"
"I don't know."
With her cheek pressed against his, Ye Chenyang couldn't help reaching up to toy with her pair of smooth little horns.
"The instant the spatial turbulence descended, she vanished—almost exactly the way she had suddenly appeared."
"Is that so?"
Jiang Mian fell into thought, but the sensation at the tips of her horns quickly pulled her back to reality.
"Hey, don't touch them like that. It tickles!"
Only after Ye Chenyang obediently withdrew his hand did she press on:
"Brother Ye, did you figure something out?"
"Mm. When she appeared, what do you think was the most obvious change?"
At that, Jiang Mian couldn't help recalling what had just happened.
"She gained a nascent Authority?"
"Not only that."
Ye Chenyang instead wrapped an arm around her shoulders, a trace of reminiscence flickering through his eyes as well.
"You saw it too. After she killed Withering, she gained the power of [Silent Death], as though she were reclaiming her own power."
"Hm?"
Jiang Mian raised an eyebrow.
No wonder Ye Chenyang had asked that question earlier. So he had arrived at the same conclusion as she had.
It was just that his [Balance] had originally shared the