But now that Du Shanjun had pointed it out, Xiao Hua had no choice but to grit his teeth and withdraw the secret technique that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, revealing his early Spirit Severing stage cultivation.
Fortunately, Du Shanjun did not reach out at all. Just as before, black-and-white grids appeared in his eyes, and tiny runes surfaced atop every grid. The runes poured forth like ants, filling Du Shanjun's entire eyes!
Within those black-and-white eyes, Xiao Hua felt a chill run through his body, as though Du Shanjun had seen him through, inside and out.
"How strange..." Almost as if he were examining the Five Brocade Cloud Diagram again, Du Shanjun spoke in surprise. Then he raised a hand and pressed his index and middle fingers against his brow. Pop! A strange silver rune exploded between Du Shanjun's eyebrows. The black-and-white runes in his eyes flashed with dazzling five-colored radiance! Only after a long while did the glow in Du Shanjun's eyes gradually fade, revealing once more those sharply contrasting starry eyes. By then, obvious astonishment had appeared in Du Shanjun's gaze!
"Xiao Hua, when did you begin cultivating the Crimson Infant Technique?" Du Shanjun stared into Xiao Hua's eyes and asked word by word. "How did this old man fail to notice it last time?"
"The Crimson Infant Technique?" Xiao Hua was greatly startled. He asked curiously, "This junior does not know what the Crimson Infant Technique is!"
Du Shanjun replied, "It is what the Cultivation World commonly calls the Loose Immortal Technique!"
"Senior..." Xiao Hua's heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly took out the Ink Cloud Pupil containing the scattered infant from his robes and handed it to Du Shanjun. "By a fortunate coincidence, this junior obtained an Ink Cloud Pupil. I saw