Following far behind Konghai as the battlefield recorder, the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost dutifully observed the scene.
She turned into a wisp of white fog, clinging to the shadows of the alleyway's bone wall as she trailed far behind Konghai.
She watched Konghai extract Buddha nature from the first crystal bone.
Watched him test it, stay on guard, hesitate, confirm, and accept.
Watched him pick up speed, little by little.
Watched his expression turn from calm to fervent.
He was a fish.
Swallowing the bait.
And the person holding the rod had yet to pull.
The fish thought it had come to a feast.
It did not know it was a dish on the table.
Just then...
In the center of Bone City.
That thing of white bones poked its head out of the black mist.
Only a small part of it emerged.
Just a small part.
In that instant, the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost's entire soul form reacted as though electrocuted.
A stress response.
An instinctive response.
Without any thought or hesitation, she activated the Weird Artifact Yang Yong had given her.
A black spherical shield abruptly unfurled before her.
She did not even dare take another look and immediately activated "One Thought to Return to the City."
And at the very instant the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost fled...
An invisible pressure swept out from the center of Bone City.
It was as though an invisible hand had grasped something in the void.
The movement was casual.
Like brushing aside a flying insect.
That great hand grasped the spherical shield.
Then gave it a gentle squeeze.
That Weird Artifact, personally refined by Yang Yong...
Under the invisible hand's gentle grip, it did not last even a tenth of a second.
Snap.
The spherical shield was crushed to dust.