Through the Sword Spirit Jinghong, Gongsun Qi could see only the girl's smooth chin beneath her black hood, pointed and pale. The sea wind on the cliff raged wildly, lifting her soft black hair to veil her face.
Yu Sui reached up to press down her hair and said in a surprised tone, "Is that Jinghong, the one from the Jinghong Sword? It's very famous. Doesn't that make you the wanted criminal from Yan?"
Gongsun Qi neither denied nor admitted it.
Anyone who recognized the sword in his hand could easily guess his identity.
After all, he had once been famous.
"I've given you the fragment." Gongsun Qi looked back at the Sword Spirit Yanyan before him.
Yu Sui took the box from Sword Spirit Jinghong and politely thanked him. Then she asked, "Do you think the Tianzi Text on the fragment is strange, or is the fragment itself strange?"
"These are questions you're curious about. I'm not interested," Gongsun Qi said.
"I thought you were interested, since you contacted me first." Yu Sui sounded surprised. "What will you do now? I heard Dean Leng Rouyin has already announced your whereabouts. A lot of people are probably getting ready to catch you and claim the reward."
"Then let them come," Gongsun Qi said.
"I won't let them catch you," Yu Sui said.
The little girl's earnest tone made Gongsun Qi laugh. "You're carrying something like the Futuo Tower Fragments. You should focus on protecting yourself."
Yu Sui was about to speak when the Sword Spirit beside her vanished in a blink and appeared behind Gongsun Qi.
She gauged the distance between the cliff and the little building out at sea. That was the limit of her control over the Sword Spirit, but it seemed to be nothing to Gongsun Qi.