At these words, Yun Yun stiffened slightly, ripples of confusion instantly disturbing her previously calm expression.
She nodded gently, her cherry-red lips parting. "Of course I know of the nihility devouring flame, ranked second on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. It is a flame as powerful and unfathomable as an ancient demon god. But what does it have to do with what we were discussing?"
Xiao Qian's expression darkened in an instant, like a suddenly changing sky.
Those obscure hints from the past, as elusive as dreams and bubbles, now surfaced in his mind one by one like pieces of a puzzle.
As those scattered fragments gradually fell into place, he increasingly felt as though he stood within a vast vortex. An invisible hand brimming with malice was controlling everything, using all manner of tangled circumstances to drag him toward the Misty Cloud Sect step by step, like a puppet on strings.
Yet Yun Yun, the woman at the helm of the Misty Cloud Sect, was like a traveler wandering blindly through the fog, completely unaware of the danger lurking behind it all.
I absolutely cannot agree so readily to become Yun Yun's personal disciple. I have to follow my original plan. I can't drag her into this unknown danger, Xiao Qian thought, his mind a tangled skein.
Whether it was her rescue and patient instruction when he hovered between life and death in Wind Thunder Gorge, or her steadfast support in the Beast Arena, as firm as a pillar anchoring the sea, everything Yun Yun had done was pure and untainted. She had sincerely wanted only to protect and help him.
He gazed at Yun Yun with an indescribably complicated expression and slowly said, "Sect Leader, I merely happened to hear how mysterious and powerful the nihility devouring flame was,