"Tu Hong?" Xiao Hua was greatly startled and asked strangely, "Did Ziye go to Quanjin Mountain... to help Tu Hong revive that Yu Ji?"
"Oh? Young Master Xiao knows of this?" Miss Zi Ming was greatly surprised. "It seemed... Ziye never mentioned this matter to you, did she?"
"Hehe~" Xiao Hua laughed. "In this world, wherever there is a cause, there is an effect; the entanglement between cause and effect is like a tangled skein of hemp! Thus, there have never been secrets in this world that could remain hidden for ten thousand years! Though Ziye never told this Xiao about Quanjin Mountain, this Xiao personally experienced life and death there and also learned some of Tu Hong's secrets. Naturally, I knew Ziye had gone to aid Yu Ji."
"So that was it!" Miss Zi Ming said with a smile. "Tu Hong was a cultivator from Xuntian City. His dual-cultivation companion, Yu Ji, died because of him, and he swore to revive her. Your Dao Sect's methods truly are wondrous. Who knew what means he used to preserve one soul and one spirit of Yu Ji's without letting them disperse? He even used the Ice Mirror to preserve Yu Ji's corpse intact. Only then did Ziye have some means she could employ..."
"But Yu Ji did not seem to have been revived, did she?" Xiao Hua had naturally seen Yu Ji before, and he asked in puzzlement, "What methods could Ziye use?"
"How could Yu Ji possibly be revived?" Miss Zi Ming covered her mouth and smiled. "That day, Ziye made it perfectly clear to the visitor: she could only make Yu Ji move and speak, but she never said she could bring Yu Ji back to life! Hehe, even that consumed an enormous amount of Ziye's soul power. If