"Could it be that Lotus Eye had just deduced that Eldest Brother Xiang and Sister Haitang would soon face a fatal predicament?"
At the thought that this was merely Lotus Eye's deduction, Xu Taiping breathed a little easier.
From what he knew of the Lotus Eye Great Deductive Power, even if it deduced a fatal predicament, a solution could still be found.
So Xu Taiping calmed his mind and focused once more, continuing to watch.
"Hmm?"
Just as the gaunt old Daoist dragged the two corpses before the Pill Furnace, he suddenly seemed to sense something and let out a loud exclamation of surprise. Then he slowly turned his head, staring behind him with a measure of puzzlement.
Xu Taiping did not know whether it was his imagination.
He kept feeling that the gaze of the gaunt old Daoist, whose hair and beard were both white, seemed to have discovered him watching all this through Lotus Eye's Divine Soul Mark.
Just as Xu Taiping was puzzling over this, the gaunt old Daoist's next words made his hair stand on end-
"Little fellow, staring at this old man without saying a word is rather impolite."
At that moment, Xu Taiping was utterly certain-
"That old Daoist can see me!"
What a terrifying being this old Daoist must be, to see him through a Divine Soul Mark deduced by the Great Deductive Power!
But after the old Daoist spoke, the scene within the Divine Soul Mark suddenly shattered like broken glass, bursting apart with a crack.
Just as Xu Taiping thought this Divine Soul Mark would dissipate, the old Daoist's voice rang out once more:
"Little fellow, with such paltry cultivation, you dare spy upon this lord through the River of Time?"
At the same time, a gaunt, clawlike hand suddenly reached