"Isn't that... isn't that the little girl Shang Jiu always had with him in the Primordial Secret Realm?"
Xu Taiping recognized the little girl at a glance.
Shang Jiu was Duan Tianya's second disciple. Back in the Primordial Thousand Buddha Kingdom, Xu Taiping had nearly died at his hands.
But later, for some unknown reason, Shang Jiu had given Xu Taiping a jade token before leaving and told him to find him at Wind Blade Valley in Youyun Heaven, saying he wanted to tell Xu Taiping certain truths.
And this little girl had been beside Shang Jiu at the time.
Looking more closely at the head cradled in the little girl's arms, Xu Taiping could not help feeling his heart tremble.
Who else could it be but Shang Jiu?
Already gripped by an intense sense of unease, Xu Taiping felt his heart abruptly sink.
Could the Lotus Eye's warning this time have something to do with Wind Blade Valley?!
Just as he was thinking this, the little girl in the vision in his mind, who had been utterly motionless, suddenly seemed to discover something astonishing. Her eyes filled with disbelief as she said:
"Xu Taiping, you can see me, can't you?"
Those words made Xu Taiping's hair stand on end once again.
He had thought the Lotus Eye was merely showing him a scene from the past or future, just as before. It had never occurred to him that someone within that scene could see him too.
"Don't speak. It... it's coming!"
Just as Xu Taiping was about to tentatively ask what exactly was going on, the little girl suddenly scooped up Shang Jiu's head and looked behind her in horror.
Xu Taiping followed her gaze, only to find pitch-black darkness behind the little girl. He could see nothing at