"A reminder from a... cultivator?" Su Shi'er frowned.
Feng Fei nodded lightly. Without a moment's thought, she decisively held the bamboo slip out before Su Shi'er. "Master, please look!"
"Hmm? This line of writing... 'Should danger arise, travel east, and you will find safety'?"
Taking the bamboo slip from Feng Fei, Su Shi'er softly read aloud the small line engraved upon it. His brows furrowed ever deeper.
Someone had warned Feng Fei in advance to flee east. This... was something he had never anticipated.
"You said this item was given to you by a cultivator several years ago. What exactly happened then, and... do you still remember what that person looked like?"
Feng Fei shook her head lightly. "At the time, I had gone out to adjust my state of mind in preparation for breaking through to the Golden Core Realm. While passing through a mortal city, I happened to encounter an elderly mortal fortune-teller."
"That man had set up a stall on the street, interpreting characters and reading people's fates. I found it curious and watched for a while. But when I was leaving, he called out to stop me, left me this bamboo slip, and told me it would be of use someday. At the time, the bamboo slip was completely blank. I did not think much of it and merely put it in my Storage Pouch, leaving it unattended."
"Yet unexpectedly, when I was being hunted by people from the Beast Taming Sect some time ago, this bamboo slip suddenly leaped out of my Storage Pouch and revealed this line of small writing."
"The situation was critical then, and I could not think of any other way. So I followed its instructions and traveled east all the way. The journey was fraught with peril, but in the