Shangguan Xue curled her lips into a smile and began directly absorbing the ghostly qi.
Ghostly qi entering the body would damage a cultivator's cultivation.
Yet after Shangguan Xue absorbed a great deal of ghostly qi, her aura only grew stronger, as though she had consumed some supreme tonic.
Xu Chunniang frowned tightly at the sight.
Was the person before her still the Senior Sister Shangguan she knew?
The aura around her was exceedingly chaotic. Aside from demonic qi and ghostly qi, there was also the golden light of Buddhist merit, as well as the spiritual qi produced after cultivating the Carefree Art.
These four utterly different auras should have been mutually incompatible, yet within Shangguan Xue's body, they had strangely achieved a certain balance.
Moreover, Senior Sister Shangguan's master was clearly Ancestor Sheng.
Yet from what she had muttered to herself earlier, it seemed she had meant someone else.
What exactly had Senior Sister Shangguan encountered all these years, and why had she appeared here?
Xu Chunniang felt beset by doubts and dearly wished she could reveal herself and ask for a clear explanation.
But Senior Sister Shangguan's allegiance was unclear now. If she rashly showed herself, Shangguan Xue might not be willing to acknowledge her.
Besides, she bore the important task of finding the land of Great Fortune and had no time to stir up further complications.
After weighing the matter, Xu Chunniang sent a strand of divine sense into Shangguan Xue's body. She decided that after finding the land of Great Fortune, she would follow that divine sense to locate Shangguan Xue and uncover what had happened to her.
The divine sense entered her body without Shangguan Xue noticing anything. She continued devouring the ghostly qi around her.
Through that strand of divine sense, Xu Chunniang could