If anything, Mingyan rarely showed any plausible emotion for many to track amidst her interference in the Bajing Mountain. Brows furrowed and lips clamped tightly into a thin line, the young woman had no doubtedly suffered more than just a slight flesh injury in her attempts at battling alongside the others against the demon.
Her limbs ached, the hand lifting her sword heavy as she gritted her teeth and pushed through as much as she could, a shout of astonishment bursting from between her lips as the earth cracked beneath their feet and split open, the dark aura that had poured forth in waves instinctively making her raise her sword and grit her teeth. A chill spread all over her skin, raising goosebumps as her frown intensified, teeth chafing her bottom lip as she lowered her sword slightly, eyes widening as they focused in on what seemed like a beautiful white jade glowing mysteriously in the pulsing red of the activated ancient runes.
“What’s...that?” Mingyan didn’t know if her voice could be heard by anyone else, alarm and awe mixing in a moment of terrified splendor as she fought internally with herself whether or not she should sheathe her sword.
The glowing jade, as beautiful as it seemed, was something of a rather unknown source after all.
What was she supposed to do?
Mingyan sucked in a shaky breath, alarmed as yet another figure slowly emerged from the dissipating fog, the sound of crumbling earth filling her ears as she tried to steady herself, straining her eyes to make out something of the form of the woman as the strange language she spoke sung through the air like a haunting melody that she couldn’t comprehend.
“Hey!” Mingyan lurched forward just as she felt a phantom beat of a fiery pair of wings brush against her face, hand outstretched to grab onto the figure’s frame just as everything dissipated with a last groan from the mountain, and a strange blue sword stood in the cracked earth’s place, etched with the name of the phantom guardian most had heard of but never saw.
Mingyan exhaled shakily, passing a hand over her face as she grimly turned around.
Whatever happened there was nothing more of her concern. She lacked in the area of the spiritual--but there were others that could make up for her lack of understanding in such an area.
Abandon things not of your concern, Mingyan.
An echo of the voice of one of the sect’s elders echoed in her ears as she squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, shifting her feet towards Lian as she spotted her brother in a distance.