[You did not answer Xu Ci's question. Instead, you focused your mind and scrutinized the person before you.]
[Xu Ci's dazed, absent-minded state just now had definitely not been an act. The one standing before you now was clearly another soul entirely.]
[White Snake Lady's deeply respectful posture further confirmed your guess—every strange change at the White Snake Temple was inseparably linked to this person.]
[The being occupying Xu Ci's body carried himself with unhurried composure, and he had mentioned the Eastern Divine Continent. You secretly surmised that he must be connected to the Unorthodox Nine Schools.]
[Xu Ci's gaze roamed over you, then he suddenly gave a soft gasp. "How strange. There is not the slightest trace of possession and recultivation on you."]
[His brows furrowed slightly, as though pondering some difficult problem. "Judging by your bone age, you are indeed only ten years old. Yet your cultivation has already reached the Dragon Court Realm!"]
[Before his words had faded, White Snake Lady's expression changed drastically. She stared at you in utter disbelief—by all reason, you looked to be around ten. How could you possibly have reached the Dragon Court Realm?]
[How was that possible? Even cultivating from the womb would not make it possible!]
[A flicker of surprise passed through your eyes. The sealing art of the Primordial Fire-House World-Suppressing Diagram was exceedingly profound, yet this person had seen through your true cultivation at a glance. Could he once have been a Great Dao Golden Core cultivator?]
[Yet you did not feel much fear. Even if he had once been a figure who reached the heavens and pierced the earth, he was now trapped in a Body Shaping Realm shell, like a fierce tiger imprisoned in a cage.]
[Moreover, judging from how he acted, he was clearly concealing