"You've seen it?"
Dongfang Yuejian looked at Xu Taiping in shock.
As she saw it, they had entered the Immortal Burial Ruins together and had spent nearly all these days eating and staying in the same places. There should have been nothing Xu Taiping had seen that she had not.
Xu Taiping kept his eyes fixed on the great elm tree on the beast-hide parchment and said without turning his head:
"Miss Dongfang, do you remember my Power of Deduction, which can foresee future fortune and misfortune?"
Dongfang Yuejian's eyes immediately lit up as she said:
"Of course I do!"
Xu Taiping slowly rolled up the beast-hide parchment in his hands, then looked at Dongfang Yuejian with a very serious expression and said:
"This great elm tree appeared in my Power of Deduction."
Under Dongfang Yuejian's astonished gaze, Xu Taiping continued:
"If what the Power of Deduction showed was correct, this great elm tree will be the key to our success or failure in this Dragon-Slaying Assembly."
Hearing this, Dongfang Yuejian immediately frowned and said:
"Doesn't that mean we won't be able to avoid Yuanlingzi and the Ancestor he spoke of?"
Although the great fortuitous opportunity Blood-Bone Cao Sixi had mentioned was tempting, in Dongfang Yuejian's view, seeking it out carried equally enormous risks.
For they would face not only Yuanlingzi, a powerful heretical cultivator who had hidden in the Immortal Burial Ruins for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years, but also the blood cultivator Ancestor he had spoken of.
At this point, Dongfang Yuejian suddenly warned Xu Taiping with a grave expression:
"Eldest Brother Taiping, if I'm not mistaken, the blood cultivator Ancestor Yuanlingzi spoke of should be the Blood Demon, one of the ten demon gods of ancient times."
"This Blood Demon feeds on the blood of living