Lin Bai could tell that the woman seemed unwilling to mention what had happened a hundred thousand years ago, so he tactfully refrained from asking further.
She also chose not to strike again. She stopped in midair, hovering there without making any unusual movement.
A short while later.
The woman hovering in midair slowly descended and returned to the coffin. The coffin lid that had just flown away also came flying back through the air and closed once more.
Immediately afterward, waves of white mist suddenly surged around them, transforming into a woman's silhouette before Lin Bai.
The white mist dispersed, revealing the woman.
Her appearance was almost identical to Gu Jing, who had been hovering in midair just moments ago.
But the only difference was that Gu Jing, who had hovered in midair earlier, had worn a blank expression and possessed hollow eyes, as though she were a walking corpse.
The woman now floating before Lin Bai was faint and ethereal, like gas, yet she had the expressions of an ordinary person and lively eyes.
"Senior, you..." Lin Bai froze for a moment. He looked at the woman before him, then at the coffin, unable to understand what was happening.
The man inside the temple had also used the Immortality Art to live within this illusion.
"Four-Colored Immortal Transformation Lotus!" Lin Bai explained excitedly, "The legendary divine medicine that can grow flesh on white bones and bring the dead back to life. It is also one of the primary ingredients for refining the immortality elixir."
"When the former Holy Lord fell, the Four Gloom Demon Palace splintered internally. Powerful enemies surrounded the inner world, and the few of you were also on the verge of death, convinced that you no longer had the strength to turn the tide."
That