"Isn't she growing a little too fast?" Xue Wu could not help asking one time.
"She was never an ordinary child." Wu Changkong said, "I suspect she may be the humanoid infant form of some powerful soul beast. Her growth pattern is different from a human's."
"How big can she get? She won't be as tall as you in a year, will she?" Shui Yue'er asked, her face full of shock.
"No telling." Wu Changkong merely shook his head and said no more.
His suspicions ran even deeper than that.
Ice Empress.
She had once been the ruler of the Far North, an Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor of her generation.
If this baby girl truly was the reincarnation of the Ice Empress, then no matter how absurd her growth rate was, it would make sense.
But something else worried him.
When she grew up and her memories returned with her, would she see them all as enemies?
Would there come a day when the little thing before him, who clutched at his clothes and called "Yiyi," suddenly revealed killing intent toward him?
More than once, while sitting cross-legged on watch at night, he had considered killing her while she was still in the cradle.
But every time he met those clear, bright green eyes and that adorable smiling face, he knew the thought was impossible.
He could not bring himself to do it, nor could he get past his own conscience.
Later, he thought that since an existence as proud and aloof as the Ice Empress could become friends with Huo Yuhao, she was clearly not a Ferocious Beast that knew only slaughter.
As long as he treated her sincerely, they would surely be able to get along.
Now, she was Wu Changbing, not some monarch of the Far North.