Not long after you and Dong Yue left, terrifying sounds of battle erupted near the Great Dao's Mark of the Wind Law. Having witnessed this turn of events, how could Dong Yue fail to understand the reason for your earlier actions? He did not ask you a single question...
You were rather surprised as well. Your original intention in taking Dong Yue away had merely been to avoid the sharp edge for a while; you had never expected several great fiends to start fighting among themselves.
Although quite a few records stated that great fiends were not all harmonious with one another, only two conflicts between them had ever been recorded. Such a situation was therefore exceedingly rare. It was perfectly normal for you and most others to believe that great fiends were relatively peaceful among themselves.
On the other hand, you had not thought such a coincidence possible before. How could Duanming have come looking for Qiong Xiao not long after you did? Thus, in your view, Duanming must have been hiding near the Great Dao's Mark for some reason, waiting quietly for someone fated to come.
Yet the affairs of the world were sometimes just this coincidental. Without the warning of your Lifebound Double Pupils ability, this operation of yours would truly have suffered disastrous losses. For someone whose Fortune had always been quite good, this was genuinely abnormal, and it could not help giving you different thoughts about Fortune—or perhaps certain other things...
What you did not know was that, just as your thoughts changed, Mirror, far away somewhere within the Grand Luo Heavenly Domain, suddenly widened their eyes.
The next instant, their eyeballs rapidly became bloodshot, crimson veins spreading through them in a flash until their entire face turned a deep red... Only after spitting out