Was she here?
Yu Ci looked up, only to frown. Sword light blazed in the distance, streaking across the heavens like a meteor. Its wielder possessed no small cultivation, but it was not the person he had imagined.
Fortunately, the sword light ultimately veered away and hurried east. After it passed, Yu Ci bent down and picked up the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror. Much like last time, the bronze mirror was scorching hot to the touch, misty light steaming from its surface. Though it had just taken a blow from the Yuan Suppressing Staff head-on, its exterior showed no damage whatsoever.
As for internal damage... there probably wasn't any, right?
Yu Ci could not be certain. His experience of losing the Zhaoshen Map last time was by no means a pleasant memory. He wanted to test functions such as the Divine Intent Starlight, so he forced himself to focus and once again used his yin spirit to control the treasure mirror. Yet the instant he touched it, his heart jolted.
Within the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror surged a vast and monstrous force, rolling and boiling like tides churning the sea, huge waves rising in succession. As Yu Ci's yin spirit controlled the mirror, it was like a small boat racing atop raging waves. This was the treasure mirror's buried potential being stirred after devouring souls. Yu Ci had no way to control it and had to wait for it to settle on its own. Yet amid the swelling tide, he sensed a faint response entirely unlike it, like a drowning man struggling as he sank.
"The Blood Monk's soul still remains?"
The thought flashed through Yu Ci's mind, but once his yin spirit touched it, he knew it was wrong. "Not the Blood Monk—it's Zhengyan!"
The strange power within the Zhaoshen Bronze