"There shouldn't be any mistake, and that figure did seem a little familiar..."
The Herrscher of Lightning nodded with certainty.
"Really? There is indeed an unfamiliar power here. Though it's faint... it resembles the power of a Herrscher, or rather, a Pseudo-Herrscher..."
Tianqiong nodded slightly. She had also noticed something unusual. She was still very familiar with the aura of Herrschers and Pseudo-Herrschers.
Then Tianqiong curiously walked around, looking about, until... she reached a certain spot and crouched down.
"This is..."
Tianqiong carefully picked up a tiny pink object from the ground... a cherry blossom.
"Why would there be cherry blossoms here? And it's even... a bud that hasn't fully bloomed." The Herrscher of Lightning looked especially curious at the cherry blossom Tianqiong had picked up.
"And it's a preserved cherry blossom..."
Holding the cherry blossom bud, Tianqiong sensed something... then cautiously tasted it. It was extremely salty.
"Cherry blossoms? Could it be..."
Hearing Tianqiong's words, the Herrscher of Lightning suddenly thought of something. The two looked at each other and said almost at the same time, "Yae Sakura broke through the seal?!"
They knew that the Twelfth Herrscher, Hiyoumaru, and Yae Sakura had been sealed by Kallen in Changkong City.
Five hundred years ago, Hiyoumaru had controlled Yae Sakura's body... and used Sakura Blizzard to pierce Kallen's abdomen. Just as Hiyoumaru mocked Kallen while preparing to kill her completely, Yae Sakura, unwilling to lose someone important again, broke free from Hiyamaru's control and turned the Sakura Blizzard that had been swinging toward Kallen against herself.
At that moment, Hiyoumaru left Yae Sakura's heavily wounded body and directly possessed a fox-shaped Honkai Beast nearby. Meanwhile, Yae Sakura, lying in Kallen's arms, kept apologizing to her...
Then, to make Kallen despair and take revenge on her, Hiyoumaru planned to devour