Yet just as Su Jiu was about to refuse, Xia Jue spoke first.
"Judging someone's condition from their breathing isn't actually difficult. With your aptitude, you should gain some understanding in about a month.
"Once we return from this mission, I'll have a long stretch of free time. If you want to learn, just come find me at the Enforcement Hall."
The refusal Su Jiu had been about to voice caught in her throat.
"Since Yun Chao is beside you, you must have noticed that even though we haven't moved around much, other people keep appearing before us.
"What do you make of that?"
Su Jiu was puzzled for a moment. With winds this fierce, wasn't it perfectly normal for other people to appear before her?
But was such a simple answer really what her senior brother wanted?
Instinctively, Su Jiu held her tongue.
Only after several more strangers appeared in her field of vision did something begin to dawn on her.
She tried releasing her divine sense to examine her surroundings.
Yet she discovered that no matter how much divine sense she released, it twisted along with the raging wind and sand.
It was as though she could never reach the ground or glimpse the sky. Everywhere her divine sense passed, there was nothing but wind and sand. Only then did Su Jiu finally realize how serious the problem was.
She had always assumed she wasn't far from where she had been when the sandstorm began, simply because she knew how far she had moved.
But was that really true? Had she truly moved as little as she felt she had?
Had she encountered Yun Chao only because he had been blown to her location?
Without her noticing, more people seemed to have gathered around her.
If Xia Jue