Han Ziyang felt as if he'd seen a ghost. Calmly, he ended the voice transmission, then squeezed the Listening Wind Ruler in his hand until it shattered.
He addressed the empty street. "If you're here, come out. Stop playing tricks and scaring people."
He waited a long while, but not even a leaf stirred. The morning light and tree shadows seemed just as puzzled about who he was talking to.
After the interruption, the murderous intent boiling in Han Ziyang's heart had subsided considerably. He left after sunrise, wondering whether the one who'd broken her promise was from the Communication Institute.
She was definitely a Communication Institute sorcerer. Otherwise, she couldn't possibly have manipulated the inscriptions and tracking markers across the mountains.
But wasn't she in Taiyi? She was a student studying at Taiyi, and Taiyi's Communication Institute wasn't connected to the one outside. So how had she found out?
Was it because of the alien fire?
Han Ziyang hadn't given much thought to becoming the World Destroyer chosen by the alien fire. To him, there were troubles more pressing than the alien fire.
After several instances of shared sensation, he'd formed a general impression of the other World Destroyers.
The little girl had started out enthusiastically searching for a way to separate herself from the alien fire. Later, she seemed to have changed her mind and wanted to persuade the World Destroyers to unite. So far, she already had two people on her side.
Even so, Han Ziyang still had a bad feeling.
Yu Sui looked at the screen showing that the voice transmission had ended and said to Gongsun Qi, "He's scared."
He ought to be. He was on the Endless Sea in Taiyi, yet he could tell that his target was far away in Qingyang Imperial Capital.