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Back on the hilltop, the little crow blinked in surprise. “The Human Emperor didn’t chase us... Do you think he used up too much energy? Maybe he’s too tired to fight again?”
The mirage sparrow said nothing. Instead, it scratched a word into the dirt with its talon.
“No.”
“Eh? Then what is it, Papa?” the crow asked with a curious squawk.
The sparrow wrote again.
“Just wait.”
“Wait for what?” the crow asked, frowning in confusion.
The reason Li Yuan told her to wait was simple.
At that very moment, he was deep in the southern wilderness, inside a makeshift tent, scribbling furiously.
He was writing. Drawing. Desperately capturing every flicker, every glimmer of the golden radiance he had witnessed while the memory was still fresh.
He hadn’t returned to Gemhill County because, although peace had seemingly returned there, not a single soul had gone back.
The reason was obvious. All those massive ghost tides had ultimately converged on one place, the Ghost Prison. And when they reached it, they were completely absorbed, disappearing into its depths.
No one knew whether the Ghost Prison might erupt again. So no one dared move back to Gemhill County, even if technically speaking there was no danger now.
At this moment, the interior of the Ghost Prison had become strangely uniform. It was shrouded in a dense black mist so thick it seemed almost solid....
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