"Beneath the black veil, my face has already been completely disfigured. It no longer resembles a human face. If I were to remove the veil, I'm afraid I'd frighten Wolf Marquis!"
She said this, but it was difficult to tell how much of her words was true.
Lin Bai and Huang Qingyun could both tell... This Holy Son—or rather, Holy Daughter—of the Corpse Refinement Sect was an exceedingly mysterious person.
She had come from the Northern Region to the Eastern Region, and had always appeared before others through Corpse Puppets. This showed that her control over corpse refinement had reached the pinnacle of perfection.
The Corpse Puppets she refined could already pass for the real thing, looking just like living people. Even if one sat right in front of Lin Bai, he would have great difficulty noticing anything amiss.
As for the true Holy Son of the Corpse Refinement Sect, no one knew where they were hiding.
According to Lin Bai's speculation, the Corpse Refinement Sect's Holy Son they had encountered in the imperial capital had been a Corpse Puppet. He feared that even the Core Disciples of the Corpse Refinement Sect in the Northern Region had seen that same Corpse Puppet when they met the Holy Son.
In other words... this Holy Son—or rather, Holy Daughter—of the Corpse Refinement Sect had never shown her face from beginning to end, not even within her own sect.
Now that Lin Bai wanted to see what she looked like, she had refused by claiming that corpse poison had corroded her features beyond recognition.
Therefore, Lin Bai judged that the corpse poison corroding her features was merely an excuse. She simply did not want to reveal her face.
"Wait! Wait!" Yi Song was utterly bewildered. He could not help calling out to Lin