The mountain road lay outside the Woods, which meant the effects of the Heart-Peering Grounds should not have manifested there.
Then what was the Qin Tianqing he had seen?
"An artery?" Shangguan Xingyue suddenly spoke.
Everyone's gaze shifted slightly.
Luo Bin pondered her words.
The body had muscles and bones, and the heart had vessels. If the Woods were a heart, wouldn't the mountain road be an artery?
Hadn't he been standing at the beginning of the road?
That was indeed within the Heart-Peering Grounds, but how could he explain the scent?
Could it be that even immortal creatures were vulnerable to the Heart-Peering Grounds after the Unlived Person's modifications?
The Heart-Peering Grounds drew on human fear, subtly producing false apparitions before unleashing terrible danger.
Was he afraid of Qin Tianqing?
Was Fourth Master Gray afraid of Qin Tianqing?
How could that be?
Luo Bin could not make sense of it. He felt no fear of Qin Tianqing whatsoever. Their trust had been forged through life-and-death trials and could withstand any test.
"This resembles the Female-One Jade Slip," Luo Xianshen said.
Qin Tianqing took out an object-the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Slip that the Female-One Patriarch had refined.
There were some differences between the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Slip and the Female-One Jade Slip, but their overall shape was the same. Neither was perfectly round; both resembled a heart.
His eyes grew thoughtful.
Luo Xianshen continued, "When Mr. Qin mentioned the effects of the Heart-Peering Grounds, I thought of the Female-One Jade Slip's function: Heart Inquiry."
"Mr. Luo, you couldn't possibly fear Mr. Qin, yet you still saw him. That can only mean the trigger for these Heart-Peering Grounds might not be limited to fear. Could there be something else? Deeper contemplation, for instance? The Female-One Jade Slip draws out people's thoughts.