Bailu hurriedly shook her head, though she still stole a glance at me.
I touched my mask. Could this child actually see through my mask?
"Bailu, my grandfather is Divine Sovereign Daotian. He isn't a bad person," Yunyun reassured her. The child was still very down-to-earth, with something of her mother's bearing.
"Divine Sovereign Daotian..." Bailu repeated, her expression wary. Calling her a frightened bird would hardly have been an exaggeration, but this was already far better than before. Earlier, her eyes had been lifeless, and she had been like a puppet. That was what being truly terrified looked like.
Fairy Gu Cheng hurriedly spoke up for her. "Please don't hold it against Bailu, Divine Sovereign. She came from the Sword Domain and had never suffered any hardship. Her time in the Qingchen Sword Sect frightened her, which is why she's become so quiet."
"It's fine. I won't blame her. Instead, tell me what you know about the Holy City Calamity. Coming from a Sword Domain, you should know more than an ordinary sword sect, shouldn't you?" I asked.
"The Holy City Calamity has lasted several years and spanned several Dao Attainment Heavens. Countless Sword Domains and sword sects have fallen into Divine Sovereign Hunyuan's clutches. Though we considered our Qinglian Sword Domain far stronger than other Sword Domains, we hadn't produced a single Divine Sovereign in ten thousand years, so naturally we couldn't stand against him. The Hunyuan Holy City has always been domineering. Whenever it reaches a Sword Domain, it sends out thousands of Great Dao immortals to hunt down anyone who dares relocate their sect or flee it. Several sword sects refused to believe this, and in the end, they were slaughtered to the last person. Heaven and earth ran with blood, and their Great Daos teetered