She turned and pointed to the two doors beside her.
"There, you see these two doors? Behind one are the Senior Brother and fellow disciples you've been longing for. As for the other, naturally, it holds vengeful ghosts from hell."
Everyone's gaze fell on the two doors once more.
At first glance, the doors seemed to be formed from two star maps, but a closer look revealed that the patterns were actually outlined by countless human faces.
The faces came in every imaginable shape: fat and thin, hideous and ordinary. They displayed almost every extreme expression a human could possess, each with its own joy, anger, sorrow, or delight. What Su Jiu found most uncanny was that the longer she looked, the more they resembled real human faces imprinted there while still alive.
Her gaze flickered, and shimmering light appeared in the depths of her eyes again.
She placed a hand against one of the doors. Apart from an exceedingly faint layer of demonic qi, there seemed to be nothing unusual about it. Yet through her otherworldly eyes, the faces seemed to move, though the movement was barely perceptible...
Su Jiu blinked gently, and the shimmering light in her eyes disappeared. What she saw was still a strange star map, as though those supposed faces truly were nothing more than shapes formed by a coincidence of countless stars.
"You certainly brought enough help this time. Not a trace left of that pathetic look you had when you fled like a dog driven from its home."
Where Su Jiu could not see, Zuo Kexin continued to provoke Lin Jiaojiao with her words, but all the while, she kept watching Su Jiu's every move from the corner of her eye.
Had anyone been more observant and paid her a little more attention,