He actually couldn't analyze any of them.
For the first time, Qi Wu's expression darkened.
"There's definitely something wrong."
Beside him.
Gale noticed something was amiss.
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Tiance looked over too.
"Did you find something?"
Qi Wu didn't answer immediately.
Instead, he quietly watched the sky.
Several seconds passed.
Only then did he slowly speak.
"The giant Demon I annihilated at the North Gate showed signs similar to this one's."
Qi Wu said:
"After it was destroyed..."
"Its remnant soul also flew into the same black clouds."
Gale and Xiao Tiance both paled.
Neither of them was a fool.
As elite powerhouses entrusted with defending entire regions, they naturally understood what those words implied.
Xiao Tiance frowned.
"You mean..."
"These things aren't actually dead?"
Qi Wu slowly shook his head.
"I don't know."
"But there's one thing I'm certain of."
He looked up at the endlessly churning black clouds.
"All those remnant souls ended up in the same place."
"And..."
"Something is collecting them."
As his words fell.
All three fell silent.
The black clouds overhead continued to churn.
Like a sleeping behemoth slowly breathing.
Suddenly.
A dull, thunderous sound rang out from deep within the clouds.
As though something enormous had rolled over.
The entire sky trembled slightly.
Xiao Tiance tightened his grip on the Sky-Piercing Halberd.
"Fuck."
"I'm hating this thing more and more."
Gale gazed up at the heavens.
"If someone really is pulling the strings behind all this..."
"What's his goal?"
No one answered.
Because none of them knew.
Qi Wu's Six Eyes were still working at high speed.
Countless streams of information flashed through the depths of his pupils.
Yet the more he analyzed.
The more wrong it felt.
Those black clouds didn't seem to have formed naturally.
They seemed more like a