A Dao Heart

"Mm."

Lying on the bed, Lu Ran opened his sleepy eyes and stared blankly at the stone ceiling above.

It took him quite a while to remember where he was.

Lu Ran vaguely recalled activating "idiot mode" in the Closed Door Meditation Room. Nearly a month of continuous battles had left him utterly exhausted in body and mind. Once his brain stopped buzzing, he had drifted dizzily into sleep.

Now that he was awake, he was already in a bedroom?

Lu Ran could not help but wear a strange expression.

It was not that he doubted Jiang Xianzi's strength. She was at the peak of the Sea Realm, after all. Carrying a guy weighing around one hundred and fifty pounds could not have been easier.

The key was how she had carried him.

Had she carried him in a princess carry, like he so often did with her?

Tsk~

Just thinking about it was a little embarrassing, huh?

Well. It was also possible that she had flung out her magical artifact, the Fuxian Whip, and dragged him up like a dead dog?

"You're awake?" A gentle voice came from beside him.

"Huh?" Lu Ran jumped, turning his head to see Jiang Ruyi lying right beside him.

Lu Ran was a little dazed.

Such a big living person had been beside him all this time, and he had not noticed?!

A place like home really did make one let down one's guard.

Or perhaps, at the root of it all, Sea Realm cultivators were simply too insignificant to him now—so insignificant that they could be ignored.

Arrogance!

Lu Ran frowned slightly.

After fighting the Faceless Jade Sovereign for so long, he had learned nothing else, yet somehow picked up this nasty habit.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ruyi asked softly.

Lu Ran gathered