The woman's gaze rested on me, as though everyone else simply didn't exist. Even when I asked that question, her reaction didn't seem to indicate that she understood anything. Instead, she spoke words that even I couldn't understand.
I couldn't help freezing up. If it had been a low-level language, I could have run it through my mind in an instant, converted it into my native tongue, and then spoken in a language the other party could understand. But I clearly couldn't understand this woman at all.
This high-level language probably came from antiquity, or from an even higher plane, which made its meaning extremely difficult to grasp. After the woman said a few sentences and saw me standing there blankly without responding, she actually smiled faintly. Then she waved her sleeve, turned around, and vanished.
Everyone watched it all unfold before their eyes, utterly at a loss.
"Th-this... what was she saying just now? Why can't I understand her at all... Yun Wei, can you understand her?" Gu Fei asked in shock.
Yun Wei shook her head as well. "This... perhaps it's an ancient language..."
I already knew that her words came from the era of the Heavenly Sword Seal. At the very least, she had an extremely close relationship with the woman in the portrait. So the reason she had suddenly smiled and turned away was likely because she was waiting for my true self to emerge.
When everyone failed to find the woman, the disciples soon gathered around me again. I also felt that it was time for Yun Mu to bid farewell to this world. Thus, I quickly lay down in the deep pit and projected my true self into this world once more.
Of course, this was still an extremely complicated process. To control the