"She is a born leader." From his seat, Lin Hui studied the woman standing on the central platform of the teahouse.
That platform looked as though it had been built specifically for her speeches.
She wore a fitted white short top and skirt edged in gold. Strands of gold naturally threaded through her long hair, and a golden flame-shaped mark rested between her brows, seemingly the result of cultivating some kind of divine technique.
Her presence was immensely powerful, and Lin Hui could sense that her strength was formidable as well. The feeling she gave him was very similar to Big Brother's.
"No—it should be certain that she's stronger than Big Brother. Much, much stronger. This pressure on the mind..." After cultivating the Void Evolution Method, Lin Hui had gradually learned to judge another person's mental strength from the reactions of the Void Fright God condensed within his mind.
The Void Fright God represented the upper limit of his own mental power. If it could be alarmed, that meant the other party posed a mental threat to him. Should their divine technique begin operating, it could very likely alter his cognition and mind.
That was a threat.
At the moment, Lin Hui, Hong Ling, and the others sat beneath the stage, all equally affected by the woman of Primordial Blood named Hou Xihan.
She could cover more than a hundred people at once and still make him feel threatened. This showed just how terrifying her mental power was—she could practically be called the strongest person he had ever seen.
The teahouse was dimly lit, while in one corner, a guqin player gently performed a melody.
Combined with Hou Xihan's speech, the music carried an incredibly strong emotional pull. Together with the subtle influence of her divine technique upon their minds,