As far as the eye could see, there was also a vast stretch of low vegetation, yet none of the fragments Xiao Hua had found were among it!
"Go!" Xiao Hua swept his hand and led everyone deeper into Mingxi.
Mingxi had indeed undergone a tremendous change. They had only just left its outskirts, yet the wind pillars had already grown much thicker. The ever-present hurricane blew the heavens and earth into a murky haze, making east, west, south, and north utterly indistinguishable. Fortunately, they were all at the peak of Qi Cultivation. With their respective magic artifacts deployed, multicolored radiance shielded them firmly, and they did not fear the hurricane.
"Look, look!" Qian Diheng had been watching the ground below all along. Suddenly, like a child spotting a fresh new toy, he pointed and shouted.
Sure enough, atop a raised patch of ground some four zhang ahead, two equally pitch-black fragments were slanted into its side!
Xiao Hua took the fragments in hand and compared them with the ones he had found earlier. They were clearly the same kind of thing. However, the patterns on all three did not match, so they were not originally connected.
"Strange!" Xiao Hua handed all three fragments to Qian Diheng, while he himself stood in midair, gazing thoughtfully at the foot-long invisible spatial rift about one zhang to his left front.
A moment later, Kun Feiyan handed three more fragments to Xiao Hua.
Xiao Hua accepted them, turned up the cross-sections of the three fragments again, and examined them carefully. He thought to himself, So that was it! But I still don't know where these fragments fell from!
"Did Junior Brother Xiao discover something?" Xun Shu asked with a smile when she saw Xiao Hua's expression.
"Hehe, Senior Brother Gan, take out the