The sap from the wineskin hadn't worked after all.
That was the conclusion Yun Jieshi came to.
His mind used his previous feeling of victory against him. To think he'd celebrated. To think he'd thought he'd saved Qiu Tian.
The little monkey panted, his teeth gritted.
A voice of doubt creeped into his self-debilitating thoughts, however.
Was it really Wu Chaoxiang's Disharmony that made Qiu Tian to become like this? Did being near the phantom really cause the hag to transform and be corrupted like this?
Yun Jieshi didn't get to think on it.
His eyes were fixed on the giant bird's four eyes. All four of them stared into his, and for a moment, the two remained frozen, the raging storm worsening around them.
The little monkey suddenly felt a freedom in his hand that wasn't there before. His ruan was gone. As he reeled, he just barely managed to see it get swept into the flying snow and disaster.
