Hold Up the Heavens had given everyone present time to react and digest the news, but had forgotten how badly their good friends in Horizon wanted to puncture their own eardrums right now.
Crack!
Wei Changming was utterly stunned, mechanically dropping and shattering a plate.
"What did Ye Buyu say she was?"
Guan Xiaomei kicked aside the fragments by her feet. "A Causal Line. Something extraordinarily mysterious. Combined with Wail's and Wan Lan's explanations, the outline of events is already clear.
"Though it's hard to accept, at least there's an explanation. As for understanding it... why do we need to understand it?"
Guan Xiaomei looked at her teammates with extreme composure.
"We just need to keep a handle on the situation and do what we can. What good would digging into Ye Buyu's abilities do, apart from setting off fireworks in our brains?"
Seriously, they weren't enemies. Besides, even if they were, they wouldn't necessarily need to understand everything. They only needed to find a weakness and deliver a fatal blow.
Wei Changming and the others snapped out of it.
"Right. Why do we have to understand it?"
Guan Xiaomei folded her arms and chuckled. "Glad you've figured it out. Send them a reply."
Upon receiving their reply, Mu Bingge nodded inwardly. As expected of Horizon, their mental fortitude was quite impressive.
"Wei Changming replied. He said they understand and asked what we're doing next."
Ye Buyu clicked her tongue. "Next? We keep getting stronger, of course. But we need to deal with these problems first."
She pointed at [War], feeling troubled herself for a moment. This rampaging nuclear bomb wouldn't be easy to deal with. After turning it over in her mind, sealing it was still the best approach.
As for the other one, the [Devouring Corpse], it would