"Sir, where is the person who bought the last scale?"
As Hui Mian asked, Ao Po looked beyond the city, frowning slightly.
"There is a deeply oppressive aura, so heavy that it has muddied destiny beyond recognition. But the third scale has already left Haiyu County's city!"
As he spoke, Ao Po raised his eyes to the sky. Tonight's gibbous moon bore a faint reddish halo.
"Awoooo~~~~woooo~~~~"
The distant cry, whether a wolf's howl or a dog's bark, sounded exceptionally long and drawn out.
Yet that howl also startled Ao Po. As it reached his ears, it vaguely carried a sense of savage malice.
At that moment, Ao Po became an invisible dragon and immediately flew out of Haiyu County's city with Hui Mian, heading straight northwest.
They flew extraordinarily fast. With a twist of his draconic body, he rose high into the sky, then sped toward the direction of the howl. In moments, they had crossed a hundred li. Below lay a winding imperial road skirting a stretch of low hills.
Ao Po merely swept past, heading straight toward the deeper, taller mountains ahead.
"Awooo-"
Atop the tallest hill ahead, a gray wolf raised its head and howled at the moon, but a fierce wind was now sweeping toward it from afar.
"Whooo... whooo..."
The howling gale shook the mountain trees, with a terrifying presence faintly lurking within it.
Roooar-
A barely audible dragon's cry came on the wind. In an instant, the gale flung the wolf into the air, carrying it skyward in a spiraling tornado.
"Whimper, whimper... awoooo..."
The gray wolf immediately let out terrified whines, flailing all four legs as it struggled in midair. After tumbling through the sky in the gale for a short while, it landed in the undergrowth with extraordinary luck, suffering no