"Information? You mean something the bears passed on to her? Probably not. If there had been anything, she would've said so earlier," I replied.
"Hmm, I see." Gu Mo nodded. "Either all those bears were wiped out before they knew what hit them, or they were all sealed away in one fell swoop."
My eyelid twitched. "Wiped out?"
"It's easy enough to destroy these toys, isn't it?" Gu Mo pointed at the stuffed animal in my arms.
My feelings immediately grew complicated.
Nangong Yao hadn't mentioned this possibility before. But when I thought about it carefully, it was possible that all the bears had been destroyed. If their vessels were destroyed, the spirits would be destroyed too. These new bears that had been sent back were merely there to prevent Lu Qiaolan's thoughts from giving rise to new spirits.
Compared with sealing them away, destroying them might have been easier.
For a moment, I had no idea how I was supposed to face Lu Qiaolan.
This would be devastating news for her.
Even if the bears hadn't been destroyed, they were on the other side of the ocean, and we didn't even know where. How could she possibly find them?
This was even harder than the trip to Huixiang.
"Actually, this kind of spell isn't guaranteed to work," Nangong Yao said. "These spirits are born from people's thoughts, and spells are also a kind of thought. The techniques spells rely on could be called thoughts passed down by those who came before us. So generally speaking, spells themselves are much more powerful than ordinary people's thoughts and emotions. But Lu Qiaolan's thoughts were powerful enough to create so many strong spirits. If she wins this clash of wills, the spirits of those toy bears might be born anew in these