Could Senior Lin...
Once this thought surfaced in Xiao Sui's mind, it sent towering waves crashing through her heart, filling her with confusion and complicated emotions.
But she did not dare ask any further. Rather than guess blindly, she would be better off asking that person.
After Qing accepted the painting of the "Primordial Heavenly Emperor" that Lin Zhishui had given her, Xiao Sui took her away.
Using her fastest flight technique, Xiao Sui brought Qing back to Qing City. She hesitated in her room for a long time before finally taking a deep breath and bringing out the Book of Life and Death. Then she sensed the imprint within it and activated it with her spiritual will.
The next instant, a strand of supreme spiritual will crossed the boundary between heaven and mortals, descending upon the Book of Life and Death in the Mortal Realm.
"Oh?"
Then a gentle male voice, deeply familiar to her, sounded through the Book of Life and Death. "Little one, you're contacting me again already?"
"Lord Cui," Xiao Sui said respectfully.
As the artifact spirit of the Book of Life and Death, she had discovered an imprint within it after her Second Primordial Spirit merged with the book a few days earlier. Through that imprint, she could contact its former master-Lord Cui of the Upper Realm.
Lord Cui had wielded the Book of Life and Death for countless years and was also a Heavenly Dao Powerhouse of the Eternal Darkness Demon Prison. Naturally, he was her greatest backer.
"In this life, your name is Xiao Sui, correct?" Lord Cui asked with a smile.
Xiao Sui replied, "It sounds like the words for 'erasing the years.'"
Lord Cui chuckled and asked, "Did you need something?"
"Well..."
Xiao Sui hesitated, but still asked, "Lord Cui, do