Jian Tongyao also took the Jade Pendant out of Love Entwined. It was the key to the final door in the Royal Academy's Back Mountain. As for the eighteen keys to the winding passages before it, she had none of those. She remembered specifically asking about them back then, but her elderly master had deliberately kept her in suspense.
"Are you sure it was the Tree of Life?" Lü Xing nearly fell out of the tree when he heard this.
"I'm sure."
How could she not be? Back then, she had absorbed an immense amount of vitality and spiritual power, even advancing there. Only the Tree of Life could have possessed spiritual power that vast and concentrated. Since she had not returned to the Royal Academy in years, she had gradually forgotten about it.
After discussing it, the two went to ask the Tree of Life.
Jian Tongyao watched Lü Xing lift his head, seemingly listening to something. His solemn, attentive expression made it look as though he were discussing something of tremendous importance with the Tree of Life. Yet as she stood beneath the life tree, her world was silent apart from the breeze brushing her face and the rustling leaves beside her ears.
That ability really was gone for good...
Just as she was about to mourn her heaven-defying cheat ability, a little fellow came hurtling toward her, wings fluttering. Without so much as turning, Ding Ding barreled straight into her arms. "Little Ninth, Little Ninth, where did you go?"
"To find Seventh Sister."
"Oh." Ding Ding wilted at once.
Jian Tongyao thought Ding Ding's resistance to Seventh Sister was far too obvious. While Lü Xing seemed to be communicating with the Tree of Life, she cupped Ding Ding in her hands and moved outside the circle. "Ding