Sky-Gazing Mirror?
Those three words struck like a thunderclap, cleaving through Gu Jinzhi's muddled consciousness, dulled by massive blood loss.
He narrowed his scattered gaze and forced his eyes to focus on the wooden, expressionless woman's face so close to him.
He moved his lips weakly, forcing broken syllables from his throat. "You're... from the... Great Dream... Cult?"
"Not stupid."
The mellow male voice remained calm, but in the next instant, its tone abruptly shifted, becoming ethereal and erratic, like a muttered dream.
"Do you know? You've made me suffer so much. You took away my physical body, leaving me to cling to life inside a Human Puppet's body..."
"But... but it doesn't matter. As long as... as long as... as long as I figure out what happened inside the mirror... the Bodhisattva will... will value me again..."
His voice suddenly turned shrill, as cutting as a knife scraping across glass.
"Speak! Speak! What happened inside the mirror? Who ruined the Bodhisattva's plan? Who?!"
Gu Jinzhi's mind cleared. All his confusion suddenly fell into place.
So that was it...
A Great Dream Cult parasite!
The one controlling this body was a high-level expert from the Great Dream Cult!
No wonder the Yun Family's sixth-rank expert had looked at this monster with fury and questioning in his eyes.
No wonder this monster could "look" a sixth-rank expert to death without leaving any physical wounds on the corpse.
No wonder he claimed to be fifth-rank, yet could display no more than fourth-rank strength.
No wonder he had tormented Gu Jinzhi all this time without delivering the killing blow.
Because the person he had parasitized had originally been that sixth-rank expert from the Yun Family's subordinate.
Because soul attacks were what the Great Dream Cult's high-level experts excelled at most.
Because while parasitizing