The insects that had blanketed the sky a moment ago vanished without a trace.
Qin An frowned slightly. He looked at the empty sky before him, tapping the hilt of his blade with his fingertips as an idea formed.
He had sensed that the insects' auras disappeared the moment they entered the rift. The rift had closed completely behind them, vanishing as though it had never existed.
Qin An peered inside, but to his surprise, even with his strength in the Heaven-Human Realm, he could not see what lay within.
It was as though an invisible barrier separated the space on either side.
One side held empty space; the other held endless mist that even someone in the Heaven-Human Realm could not see through.
"That's interesting."
Qin An rubbed his chin as the thought occurred to him.
No wonder Emperor Xuanwu had told him that their investigations had turned up no clues.
Under these circumstances, finding a clue inside would be the strange thing.
"So how exactly am I supposed to get in?"
Qin An fell into thought. Of course he wanted to go in and look. The only lead he had was right before him; if he did not investigate it, how could he find the information he needed to end this insect plague?
After standing there and thinking for a while, Qin An shook his head.
"I can only wait for the rifts to appear again, then see whether I can probe what's inside."
The rift had appeared too quickly before, so quickly that even Qin An had not reacted in time.
He decided to wait for it to reappear, then probe it as fast as he could to see what lay within.
If possible, he even wanted to attack it and find out how sturdy that invisible