When the sound of the Iron-masked Man’s departing footsteps faded outside the cave, Ye Fan tapped his knuckles lightly against the stone table. Qín Wǎnshuāng pushed the confidential letter a little closer to him, the candlelight casting two tiny sparks dancing deep within her eyes. "That last line—'The Star Map appears in the world'—and the Star Map inside your Inner World..."
"Indeed." Ye Fan’s thumb rubbed over the ink marks on the letter. When he was ambushed and killed in his past life, the same greed had flashed in the eyes of those people. What they had always wanted was never his life, but the Inner World within him that expanded alongside his cultivation—a vessel gifted by the Heavenly Dao, capable of holding mountains and rivers, sun and moon, and concealing the profound mysteries of heaven and earth.
Qín Wǎnshuāng suddenly pressed down on the back of his hand, her palm still carrying the chill of the sword she had just been wielding. "I had people look into the Nether Sect's recent movements. Three months ago, they slaughtered a small village in Southern Xinjiang, and the survivors all said they saw 'the Iron-masked Man walking upon the stars.'" Her fingernails dug crescent-shaped marks into the back of his hand. "Do you think this could have anything to do with your past life..."
Chapter 106