Meanwhile, Su Jiu, who was walking through Goddess Mountain, plainly had no idea that demonic cultivators had already set their sights on her.
Jingle, jingle!
The Sound-Mixing Bell at Su Jiu's waist suddenly rang.
Su Jiu frowned. She had not activated the Sound-Mixing Bell, so why was it ringing?
"Su Jiu, it's me." A pleasant voice rang out in her sea of consciousness.
Her lovely, peach-blossom eyes went blank for an instant. The Sound-Mixing Bell could actually transmit voices, too.
And she knew this voice very well. It belonged to Xia Jue.
"Su Jiu? Are you there?"
She replied with her divine sense, "I am."
A soft chuckle came from the other end. "I never told you, but these bells originally came as a pair. One of their functions is just what their name suggests: mixing sounds to sow confusion in an area. Their second function lets the two people holding the bells communicate with each other."
Su Jiu nodded, then remembered he could not see her and stopped the rather foolish-looking gesture. At the same time, a scene from the day she left the Azure Tide Sect surfaced in her mind. No wonder. No wonder so many people had stared strangely at the bell on her waist when she went to the Heavenly Origin Hall. Some of those gazes had even harbored hostility.
The corner of Su Jiu's mouth twitched. It seemed this senior brother was not particularly reliable either. All he did was find trouble for her.
Her voice was filled with helplessness. "Did you need something, senior brother?"
As though he had heard the helplessness in her voice, Xia Jue's smile deepened. "Nothing much. Mainly, I forgot to tell you about the Sound-Mixing Bell's final function."
Su Jiu perked up a little and listened closely.
"Its final