Fireflies

"You're wasting your time holding me back!"

Hun Bugui had tried to leave several times, but in the end, he couldn't get away.

Five shafts of light shot from Muzi Li one after another, blocking Hun Bugui's path and sealing off the entire area.

Yet Hun Bugui wasn't angry. Instead, he sneered. "There's no need for me to kill that kid. And I don't need to do a thing to open the array's eye, either."

Muzi Li's heart clenched. A terrible feeling suddenly rose within him. At the same time, as if to prove Hun Bugui's words, a thunderous crack rang out.

No... It wasn't thunder!

High above the Western Territory, a... a vast millstone, with no end in sight, appeared as a phantom.

It blotted out the sun. The whole sky darkened in an instant, as though night had fallen.

"A projection!"

Muzi Li's expression changed. The array's eye was actually a projection of Yanluo Hall's sacred relic!

"You guessed wrong. It isn't a projection!"

Hun Bugui sneered again and again, gazing up at the sky with fervent eyes. He couldn't help bursting into laughter.

It wasn't a projection?

Muzi Li seemed to realize what was happening, and his face filled with disbelief.

"You're pulling it into the Central Continent!"

Now everything made sense. That was why Yanluo Hall had concealed the Heavenly Dao, using baleful energy to cut it off from the world.

Everything they had done was to pull this thing into the Central Continent!

"You've only concealed it, not blinded the Heavenly Dao. It'll still discover what you're doing. When it does, I'm afraid even your sacred relic will be ground to dust."

Muzi Li's voice turned hoarse.

Hun Bugui gave him a scornful look and shook his head with pity.

"Looks like you haven't gotten