When God Huang Tian reached out and picked up the Peacock Bottle again, the bottle spirit's anger vanished. It sneered. "After all that talk, you still can't bear to part with it, can you? Go on, tell me what you want. I'll grant your wish—"
God Huang Tian did not answer. He simply held the bottle.
One, two, three—
Time passed little by little. The bottle spirit sensed something wrong with the atmosphere, and an inexplicable unease rose in its heart. It frowned. "What exactly are you doing? If you don't intend to make a wish, put down the Peacock Bottle. I'll wait for someone else destined to find it."
"You won't get the chance," God Huang Tian said calmly.
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen—
The bottle spirit's unease grew stronger. Anxious and furious, it demanded, "What do you mean by that? Put the bottle down!"
Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!
Whoosh!
The ornate Peacock Bottle suddenly shuddered. The bottle spirit's eyes went round as it felt all its power drain away in an instant, the very foundation of its existence crumbling.
"You!"
It managed only that one furious word before it and the entire Peacock Bottle dissolved with a pop, becoming a speck of light that drifted into God Huang Tian's body.
I didn't get any secret information out of the bottle spirit, but at least it's become part of me. Not bad.
He nodded in satisfaction, then stepped into the sky and continued flying toward Changnan City, sweeping his divine sense in every direction as he went.
But even after he entered Changnan City and reached Changnan University, he found no second oddity. He thought nothing of it. Though quite a few oddities had appeared on Canxing over the past year, they could hardly be found so easily.
Most oddities were already