'What in the world is going on?'
Before the operation began, just as dusk was falling, he had clearly come to the mountaintop. Everything was normal then. Now, with the moon high in the sky, how could such a drastic change have occurred? He had tried pulling one of the plants up by its roots, but it was buried deep, its endless root system seeming to stretch all the way to the foot of the mountain.
'What kind of person, or thing, possessed such immense power? Powerful enough to make demonic creatures of wood energy burrow through the hard mountain ridges and scatter the components of his array? To break his formation with ease. A power of this magnitude... I'm afraid even Bei Mingyuan himself would fall short.'
"Does Zhu Ao have a helper?" he asked, voicing a possible explanation.
"That's not her helper. That's a catastrophe for everyone," Bei Mingyuan said gravely, his heart turning to ice.
