"Darling, what are you looking at?" The Thousand-Spirit Saintess handed him a cup of tea.
"That ship. Have you noticed it?" Lin Xiaosu asked.
Following his gaze, the Thousand-Spirit Saintess spotted a ship, a large vessel of imposing grandeur.
"What about it?"
"The third cabin on the port side of the top deck. The woman in purple!" Lin Xiaosu raised his teacup and took a sip.
The Thousand-Spirit Saintess swept her gaze over it...
Her heart gave a slight jolt. "Such an enormous ship, yet only a handful of people aboard, all just to escort that woman in purple?"
"Yes. Stranger still, I can't hear anyone aboard speaking."
"There are two possibilities. Either her cultivation is above Third Mastery, or the ship carries some protective treasure. Whichever it is, this woman is no ordinary person!"
"It isn't a protective treasure! It's her own cultivation!" Lin Xiaosu said. "There can't be many women in the world who've reached that realm, can there?"
"Li Xinyu of the Myriad Poison Sect should be one of them!" the Thousand-Spirit Saintess said. "Could it be her?"
Li Xinyu was the first name that came to the Thousand-Spirit Saintess's mind.
Because she knew of the Myriad Poison Sect's feud with him.
"It isn't Li Xinyu!" Lin Xiaosu said.
"How can you be sure? At that level of cultivation, she could change her appearance at will, and no one would recognize her."
Lin Xiaosu smiled. "Because I have another avatar, right there in the Myriad Poison Sect!"
The Thousand-Spirit Saintess's eyes widened. After a long moment, she softly exhaled. "If it isn't her, there are only three possibilities: someone from the Demon Gate, someone from the Demon Sect, or someone from the Azure Abyss!"
"Why not the Heart Dao?"
"The Heart Dao? Would its Dao Lord play