"No one knows who harmed that fine girl from the Hu family while she was out gaining experience. Now she's gone mad." The man who spoke shook his head helplessly.
Su Jiu glanced at him. He was clearly a resident of the city.
"Ah, life is so unpredictable. I still remember how, ten years ago, the Hu family went around telling everyone their daughter had become an immortal. Who would have thought the old couple would offend someone and be beaten to death, and their daughter would come home mad?
"Still, perhaps it was better that the old couple died earlier. Otherwise, how heartbroken would they have been to see their perfectly fine daughter reduced to this?"
Su Jiu frowned slightly. Wasn't this as good as having their entire family wiped out?
Besides, the timing was far too coincidental. The old couple had only just died, and their daughter had come home out of her mind?
The petal beneath Su Jiu's eye flickered, and a silvery gleam surfaced in her eyes. The girl's condition immediately revealed itself to her.
After examining the girl, Su Jiu pressed her lips together. Just what sort of hatred did the culprit harbor toward her?
Her nascent soul had shattered, and her destroyed spirit root had left her Cultivation Level utterly lost. Her sea of consciousness was in chaos, and her mental state suggested that she had suffered some terrible shock. What Su Jiu found most regrettable was that the girl possessed a heavenly spirit body.
A heavenly spirit body was one in ten thousand even in the cultivation world. A cultivator with such a constitution, even one with a five-element spirit root, could still have a chance of reaching the pinnacle of the Great Dao if they cultivated diligently.
And the girl before her