"It doesn't matter!" Guzhen waved his hand. "Since this old monk knows your identity and accompanied you here, I must enter this formation. Since no one else can examine the Ink Cloud Pupil, naturally I cannot see it either, so there is no need to look. Everything within shall be directed by the female benefactor."
"What about Fellow Immortal Ci Hui?" Xin Xin smiled and looked toward Cihui.
Cihui shrugged and answered with utmost seriousness, "Benefactor Xin has held this Ink Cloud Pupil for quite some time, hasn't she? She never seemed to have considered letting this little monk examine it. Since that is so, why should this little monk look at it now?"
Xiao Hua found Cihui's shrug very familiar. Wasn't that something he often did himself? He had no idea when Monk Cihui had secretly learned it from him. Still, Xiao Hua merely watched without speaking. He blinked and looked toward the waters below, certain that Xin Xin would once again treat him as though he were invisible.
"Little Monk Tipu~" Unexpectedly, Xin Xin raised her hand and held the Ink Cloud Pupil before Xiao Hua, smiling. "Would you like to take a look?"
"Me?" Xiao Hua was slightly stunned and looked at Xin Xin in disbelief. "The female benefactor still remembers that this little monk exists! This little monk thought you would not ask, just as before!"
"How could that be? Nothing before involved entering the formation. Now that we must work together to enter the forbidden grounds, how could I fail to seek your opinion?" Xin Xin said solemnly. "Though being unable to see it amounts to the same result as being unable to examine it, I still had to ask whether Master Little Monk wished to take a look."
"From what the female benefactor says,