Chapter 1487 The Barrier Opened!

• It was a round metal thing... like a compass, except pearls were set into it, and its pointer—made of who-knows-what—looked otherworldly. A little bit like a navigator’s compass, a little bit like the old eight trigrams. But clearly, whatever the old man held wasn’t exactly either of those.
• Seeing him pull it out, Tina and Tom clammed up right away, not daring to say another word, scared they’d break his focus.
• The old man paced the lake’s edge with that compass-like device in hand.