After Su Jiu learned that she could no longer use her Otherworldly Eyes, she appeared no different from before.
Yet both Xia Jue and Chu Luohen still noticed that something was wrong with her.
Su Jiu smiled noticeably more than she used to.
Much of her outward coolness seemed to have faded as well, as though her personality had suddenly changed.
Su Jiu might have been entirely unaware of all this, but Xia Jue was a fox who had long since grown cunning. Almost immediately, he noticed the anguish buried deep within her heart.
Still, he could understand it.
A genius, a genius with extraordinary innate gifts-if someone told such a genius one day that she could no longer use those gifts, surely anyone would go mad.
Some simply went mad utterly, while others went mad quietly.
Su Jiu was one of the quiet ones. During the three-month journey to the Merfolk Tribe, Xia Jue discovered that, while they rested at night, she repeatedly slipped away to places out of their sight to examine her meridians and try using her innate ability, hoping to find the problem. None of it helped.
Every time she finished trying, her face looked terrible, as though she had endured tremendous pain. It hurt so much that cold sweat soaked her clothes, yet she persisted, refusing to give up.
To Xia Jue, Su Jiu had always been a steadfast person. He believed that someone like her would never abandon herself to despair simply because she had suffered a setback.
As he had expected, Su Jiu did not abandon herself to despair, but she had other emotions too...
That time, she pushed herself harder than ever before, nearly passing out among the trees. Perhaps she truly had no options left; she began staring blankly up at