() Flame Immortal Pays a Visit (2)
Main Hall of Lin Manor.
When Lin Ruhai and Jia Yucun crossed the gloomy, desolate rear courtyard of Lin Manor and hurried into the elegantly furnished hall, thick with spiritual energy, the sight that met their eyes still left even these two supposedly well-traveled experts stunned for a moment.
They both saw it: in a side room off the hall, a little girl of about eight, dressed in a red skirt, stood with her back to them?
Her appearance really was much as the Heavenly Soldier had reported yesterday: a little girl of around eight or nine.
Then they noticed that she was even standing on tiptoe in front of an antique display shelf, studying with great interest a jade-green pixiu paperweight displayed among the many treasures.
Meanwhile, her scarlet twin ponytails swayed gently as she tilted her head to look, and her soft, pale fingers were practically itching to touch the glowing pearl held in the pixiu's mouth.
That sort of behavior clearly had nothing to do with being an "expert."
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Seeing this, the two could only feel that the solemn, dignified atmosphere in the hall had somehow become tinged with an incongruous absurdity and lightness because of the little figure's presence?
But that wasn't important!
So!
Lin Ruhai and Jia Yucun quickly exchanged a glance outside the side room, and both saw the wariness and uncertainty in the other's eyes.
They had both noticed that the little girl before them had not the slightest trace of spiritual energy around her, just like an untrained mortal child?
Yet they both knew that it was absolutely impossible for her to be an ordinary person!
After all, given the Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivation of the Heavenly Soldier guarding the notice board, there