"Master... this disciple has failed you!"
Excitement was one thing, but the earlier problem could not be forgotten.
Lin Tian's emergence from seclusion meant that the Spirit Vine Sect's plan to avoid the tribulation had failed completely. And all of this had happened because Duobao had handled matters poorly. At this moment, alongside his excitement at Lin Tian's arrival and display of unrivaled might, Duobao suffered the anguish of his own incompetence, which had actually caused such a colossal breach in the Spirit Vine Sect's defenses.
Naturally, Shi Ji shared Duobao's feelings.
Before Lin Tian appeared, Shi Ji had never considered why she had emerged from seclusion and left Golden Turtle Island. Now, however, her shame led her to recognize the problem amid her self-reproach.
Why did I come out of seclusion?
Shi Ji had initially meant it as a reproach to herself, but that single thought revealed that her memories contained no trace of her emergence from seclusion.
In other words, she seemed to have left Golden Turtle Island without knowing or noticing it, then treated everything afterward as perfectly normal.
How is that possible!
Shi Ji was, after all, an existence at the pinnacle of the Great Luo realm. That single thought immediately alerted her to something wrong with herself.
The instant she realized this, Shi Ji's face went deathly pale!
She realized that someone had schemed against her!
Moreover, their Divine Ability was so powerful, so clearly superior to hers, that she had noticed nothing amiss when she left Golden Turtle Island and fell into the trap on Mount Qianyuan. Only now, with Lin Tian's arrival, had she suddenly detected that bizarre turn in her thinking.
Who was it? Yuanshi?
Only now did Shi Ji understand that someone had schemed against her. But she understood even more