Turning his head to look at the road below the mountain again, Luo Bin remained just as grave as before, but his heart sank considerably.
Qin Tianqing had not lied. His face showed that.
At Luo Bin's level, he should have been able to see through everything. Deception should have been impossible.
Yet during their earlier conversation, Luo Bin had performed a Rewind.
When he first passed through the Heart-Peering Grounds, he had relied on Rewind to confirm that the hallucinations were all false.
In this Rewind, the person on the mountain road had not been a hallucination!
It had been Qin Tianqing!
There was another Qin Tianqing on Heavenly Mechanism Mountain!
Why was Qin Tianqing hiding it? How had he concealed it without me noticing?
Or did Qin Tianqing not know about his second self either?
If Qin Tianqing was deliberately concealing it, he surely had his reasons. It did not mean there was anything wrong with Qin Tianqing himself. After knowing him for so long, Luo Bin trusted his character.
If Qin Tianqing knew nothing about it, saying it outright might give everyone present more troubling thoughts.
Under the circumstances, getting through the Heart-Peering Grounds was the priority.
Stray thoughts were precisely what one had to avoid in the Heart-Peering Grounds. Even if everyone trusted Qin Tianqing, they might imagine several versions of themselves. That would cause a drastic upheaval!
"Begin, Grand Shamanic Healer," Luo Bin ordered at once.
Meanwhile, he worked through ways to respond to this unexpected change in his plan.
Miao Zi began making the peculiar sounds used to control gu worms, his fingers forming hand seals.
A vast number of gu worms immediately crawled out of his body. His face remained normal, but countless tiny holes appeared across his body.
The gu crawled onto