"Another variable?"
The moment this figure appeared, the distant East Flower Continent suddenly trembled. Threads of will drifted forth, while layer upon layer of Fortune rose.
Yet whether it was will or Fortune, both revealed an aura utterly at odds with Donghua itself.
"This is..." In an instant, each of these mighty beings split off a fraction of their thoughts and turned their attention toward it.
This was not because they were being overconfident. Compared with it, the unstable Black Wind was clearly more urgent. What had originally been a situation where two variables counterbalanced one another had, in the blink of an eye, become one where those two variables showed faint signs of joining forces because of a hidden secret.
More importantly, Nandou and the others also cared deeply about this secret, because it concerned Donghua. Thus, Qiu Yan had invisibly gained a slight advantage, making his value as someone to be drawn in increasingly great.
As for the suddenly appearing figure, its aura was not particularly formidable. Although it had caused changes in Donghua, a little attention was enough to uncover the truth: what had responded were actually the Fortune of the Mechanism Arts practitioners from Heaven Will Continent, along with a trace of foreign will that had been laid down in advance.
Such things were insufficient to shake the foundation. In Nandou and the others' eyes, they were no more than ringworm and scabies, ailments too minor to affect the larger picture. Thus, they would not shift the focus of their attention there.
And so, voices of one mighty being after another entered Qiu Yan's ears again. This time, however, he heard them through the ears of Black Wind, whom he had refined into an External Incarnation.
The content of their words differed little from before. They