The girl before me looked like she had aged prematurely, and it shocked me. She wore the inner disciple robes of the Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect, which surprised me even more, because not just anyone could pass into the inner sect of the Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect. They needed some foundation in swordsmanship and cultivation; otherwise, they had to possess a certain family status. If what she said was true and she would not live past twenty, then her bone age was at most a little over ten years.
Although this was a dream and everything might have been a false imagining, it still left me deeply confused. To mortals, premature aging was nothing much, and to immortals, it could be treated with immortal arts. Yet for Li Guxian and the various immortal families to be helpless against it, the reason seemed to be that she had an immense connection to me.
The Chaos Child's law was the passage of time. The girl had become this way entirely because a wisp of my destiny had entered her body. The fact that she had not immediately died in the New World's current rapid operation, where a single second could span tens of thousands of years, could only be explained by how minuscule this wisp of destiny was. Thus, I could not use it to condense my own body for the time being.
But there was one crucial point I still could not understand. How had she come to possess a wisp of my destiny after I had attained the Dao? This was no ordinary destiny. It was definitely the destiny I had gained after attaining the Dao. Because it possessed the trait of making time pass rapidly, the girl had withered away in the prime of her youth.
After I turned