Li Huowang had traded with Shangji Guankou before, so when he saw the abnormal situation unfolding, he knew something was wrong. Whatever Shangguan Yuting had said earlier about being a secret for the transaction was just an excuse to trick him.
Everything before his eyes changed in an instant. A gust of shadowy wind, formed from a swarm of different characters, clawed its way out of the crack in the clay idol. It formed a funnel as it drifted toward the heavens.
The moment Li Huowang saw it, he instantly understood what it was. That was Shangji Guankou. He glimpsed something private within it.
Shangji Guankou tried to flee, but how could the Astronomical Bureau not be prepared? He didn't know when it had started, but the sky above them had become a mirror. Everything on the ground had an upside-down duplicate in the sky.
