A Tainted Halo

Wide-eyed and utterly baffled, all Hao Xuan could do was barely move his head a few inches. He was rooted in mid-air with absolutely nothing tying him down.

'?!!?'

He was just as confused as he was shocked. It made no sense whatsoever. Nothing had come into physical contact with him and yet his entire body was frozen in place.

He looked down at the rubble, at the spot he had previously seen something move towards him but there was nothing there...not that he could see that well to begin with.

'I definitely saw something move out of the corner of my eye so how could there be nothing at all?!'

Hao Xuan tried to move his head as much as he could to look around but could neither see nor sense anything out of place. Immediately closing his eyes, he spread out the spiritual threads once again but even with their help nothing new was showing up.

But perhaps the most puzzling part was not even this strange phenomenon, but the fact that nothing followed it up.