"Perhaps everyone had been deceived by Zeng Dajiang. He gathered all this information about the Void Realm not because he truly wanted to leave it. What he really wanted was to bring the Embroidery Woman back," Yuan Jiang said.
His words gave me a start. Thinking about it now, that really wasn't impossible.
I had always felt that Zeng Dajiang was far from simple. He was too good at scheming, and it could even be said that nothing escaped his calculations. He had calculated that I would come to the Void Realm, where I would appear after arriving, and had Little Demon go meet me in advance.
Wait!
I frowned. Why had he specifically sent Little Demon to meet me? Why had he specifically plotted around me? Neither Little Demon nor Sister Lin had been able to give me a clear answer.
They had only said that I was fated to Heavenly Secrets Hall. Now, it seemed that was merely an excuse.
It was probably related to the Embroidery Woman after all.
If that was true, then the Embroidery Woman and Xu Qiuyan definitely could not be unrelated.
We headed southwest, hoping to find Zeng Dajiang. I had too many questions to ask him.
"Ah!" Yuan Jiang, who was walking behind me, suddenly cried out. When I turned around, I saw the pained expression on his face. He clutched his chest and collapsed straight to the ground.
"What's wrong?" My heart lurched. Could he have been attacked?
"I don't know why, but my chest suddenly hurts so badly. It feels like a knife is viciously twisting in my heart." He could barely speak, his words broken and halting. His lips had also turned pale. He definitely wasn't pretending.
I immediately became alert and swept my gaze around us. "Come out.