Your Excellency Xi Ye, My Heart Represents Heaven's Heart

"Could it be..."

As Lynn stared at the brilliant maple leaf slowly drifting down in the depths of the Spirit of the Blue Sky, his heart gave a violent jolt, and an almost unbelievable thought suddenly surfaced.

Yet the moment that thought arose, he forcibly suppressed it.

"No, impossible!"

Lynn shook his head instinctively.

"How could the world-shaking leap have produced a result so soon..."

Naturally, this series of changes did not escape the notice of Wizard Ald beside him.

Ald was still adjusting the astrolabe's coordinates in his hands, but his gaze involuntarily drifted toward Lynn.

What surprised him was not Lynn's muttering to himself.

Rather, it was because this lord had always been deep and inscrutable, never showing joy or anger on his face. Even in life-and-death battles, he rarely displayed any obvious emotional fluctuations.

Yet now, shock, doubt, disbelief, and all manner of other expressions appeared one after another on that ever-calm and composed face, as though he had witnessed something great enough to shake his very understanding of the world.

Just as Ald was secretly speculating.

The Spirit of the Blue Sky in Lynn's hand suddenly changed again.

The crystal, which had merely been somewhat hot before, saw its temperature soar once more. If it had previously only been warm, it was now hot enough to burn his hand.

The entire Spirit of the Blue Sky emitted a faint azure glow, while the maple leaf deep within the crystal grew increasingly clear.

At the same time, a man's voice carrying a trace of laughter suddenly drifted into Lynn's ear.

The voice was incomparably familiar, yet it also carried an indescribable strangeness and ethereal quality, as though it had come from an unimaginably distant place, and yet as though it were ringing directly within the depths of