To ensure a sure hit.
Gu Shen had waited all this time... In the end, the silver arrow struck her squarely in the face as he had hoped, but he had misjudged Qu Shui's ability.
That was not her real body.
It was her ability... a shadow.
Qu Shui's reaction made it clear that when the shadow was hurt, she suffered too. However, what should have been a fatal wound had been greatly reduced. Blood continuously streamed from her eyes, matching the silver arrow's piercing injury.
The shadow beneath Qu Shui's feet writhed irregularly, sometimes condensing into a petite girl, sometimes shifting into a tall man, like a wild beast struggling and charging against the walls of a cage.
"Her ability is to control shadows and form them into physical bodies?" Gu Shen's expression turned grave as he stared at Qu Shui. That large, gleaming pair of silver scissors filled him with a sense of danger.
She had been too cautious.
Even without knowing that he was a Transcendent, she had sent her shadow into the Kiln Cave... If her real body had entered, that arrow would have ended the fight already.
In the Profiling world.
She had slit "Father's" throat with a single cut!
And Hu Danian's case file said the same... Every victim had died from having their throat cut by a sharp weapon. Their bones had been crushed, leaving only a thin layer of skin, and Transcendent traces had been detected around every wound.
Or rather... was what she had intended to do upon entering the Kiln Cave something only a shadow could accomplish?
No!
Gu Shen suddenly recalled a detail.
At the clinic, he had used Blazing Fire Power to hypnotize Qu Shui... She had known all along that he was a Transcendent.
Had she been