When Maria’s figure vanished atop the mountain, Viola’s consciousness snapped back to reality from the depths of the southern province.
As he opened his eyes, he wholeheartedly believed in Maria’s words.
He believed that this girl had lived from three hundred years ago until the present.
At that moment, he finally understood why he had always sensed that there was something extraordinary about Maria, yet couldn’t quite put his finger on it.
She appeared to be seventeen or eighteen years old, but possessed knowledge of the esoteric hexagrams that Master Exeor couldn’t grasp even at a hundred years old.
At the tender age of twelve, she was pursued by the Warriors Den and engaged in a battle of wits and courage.
And at the same time she was seventeen or eighteen, she somehow coincidentally appeared before him in Aurous Hill after leaving Northern Europe. Such uncanny occurrences were rare in the world.
Moreover, this seemingly seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl possessed extraordinary talent in painting landscapes, surpassing any painter in history within seconds…
Now that she had revealed her secret, all of these questions were answered with a plausible explanation.
Her exceptional painting skills were the result of three hundred years of dedicated practice, surpassing the abilities of any other artist.
The same applied to fortune-telling.
Master Exeor was only a hundred years old, while Maria had surpassed the three-hundred-year mark. The disparity between them was evident.
Simultaneously, Viola noticed a change in Maria’s demeanor.
sense of hidden beauty, as if the
term “Nujia” that ancient Chinese women used to address themselves gave Viola the impression that Maria was like a kitten baring its soft belly, revealing all her
lord. I didn’t mean to startle you,
composure, looking at Maria intently as he asked each word deliberately, “Have you traveled from over
responded, “My lord, my family has
witnessed the tea tree’s calamity in the southern province… Then… How old are you
my family was born in the second year of plenty during the Southern Ming Dynasty, which coincided with the third year of the Warriors Den, or 1646
head spun
might
with utmost respect, “My lord, there is no need to address me as
spoke earnestly, “You are nearly four hundred years old… Just calling you
never grow up, not an ancient witch. Though I have indeed
awkward position, torn between two conflicting
though she has lived for nearly four hundred years, she has always
you
these thoughts and continued
he noticed a trace of displeasure flicker across Maria’s
a sweet smile as she asked shyly, “What did
amazement, “How can you live for four hundred years? How can you still look so young?! Even if
a matter of rejuvenation. Since I was seventeen, my appearance
“This… How is that possible? You don’t possess extraordinary reiki, and even
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