Fellow disciples

How was this possible?! Liu Shuyue was stunned.

She had kept her Mind Method's perception active the entire way here. If anyone had been present, she should have noticed them long ago.

And no matter how she looked at it, the dried corpse before her could not possibly come back to life!

But Liu Shuyue soon realized something was wrong. She could see the corpse still seated on the lotus pedestal; it had not suddenly reached out. She herself stood before the stone platform, leaning forward slightly, her right hand resting on the jade tablet.

Yes... she could see herself.

Her viewpoint seemed to be somewhere behind her body rather than in her own eyes. The "Liu Shuyue" and the "dried corpse" in her sight were completely motionless, frozen in the positions they had held a few breaths earlier, when she made contact.

It felt... as though her soul had been forcibly stripped from her body!

She could neither move nor return to her body. Beyond the illuminated lotus pedestal, everything was pitch-black.

"Don't be nervous. This is merely a spell that lets me speak with you without interruption," a voice suddenly said from the darkness.

It was deep and gentle, not unpleasant to hear.

"Who are you?" Liu Shuyue asked.

"Liu Zhidong, a disciple of the Lotus Cloud Sect," the other person said calmly. "And your name is Liu Shuyue. Like me... you belong to the same sect."

Now Liu Shuyue was truly astonished.

It was not as though the possibility had never occurred to her, but hearing him actually say it still left her slightly dizzy! The disciple who had preceded her, whom she had searched for so long without finding a single lead, really still existed in this world!?

Even so, she did her best to keep