Yu Sui took Li Jinshuang to see Black Beard. She had a physician from the Nangong Family examine Li Jinshuang's injured hand before they had dinner.
After dinner, Black Beard came to report to Yu Sui. He said that many sorcerers from the outer city were heading toward the Sea of Fog tonight.
"Something seems to have caught fire over there. The temperature in the surrounding area has risen quite a bit, and the Five Elements Qi has become chaotic too," Black Beard said. "We sent people to investigate, but the Academy sent people to stop them. We couldn't find out what was happening in the Sea of Fog. All we could see was that the Sages kept rushing over there. Something major seems to have happened."
Yu Sui smiled and asked, "What major thing?"
Black Beard glanced around, then lowered his voice and whispered to Yu Sui, "County Princess, you asked me to keep an eye out for news about the World Destroyer. According to a reliable source, what's happening in the Sea of Fog now should have something to do with a strange fire."
Yu Sui didn't need to ask. Black Beard's source was probably the Mechanism Clan.
Since they worked together often, it was inevitable that familiar contacts would let each other in on a little information beforehand.
Black Beard took a small red stone from his sleeve and said, "The Mechanism Clan has been forging a large quantity of these stones over the past few days. We've never seen anything like them before, and they won't tell us what they're called. I have to return this one after you've had a look."
"They say they urgently need these stones. Every single one is recorded, and the Sages of Shuizhou would be furious if even one went