"Uh..."
Lu Ran's unfocused gaze gradually regained a little clarity.
"Big Bro, you're awake?" A delighted voice came from above his head.
Lu Ran had been lying atop a lantern all along. The flames within glowed firefly green, constantly scattering sparks that nourished both his body and mind.
This was the Lanterns Sect's healing divine art: Firefly Cage.
"I wasn't asleep." Lu Ran looked up at the face of the Young Girl God Statue. His already limp, powerless body began trembling uncontrollably again.
"Hehe~" Qiao Yuanxi was a god, yet with her crescent eyes and sweet smile, she still looked as pretty and charming as ever.
But what she said made someone's cheeks flush crimson: "The universe could be destroyed, and that mouth would still be there~"
"I-I really wasn't asleep," Lu Ran said quietly.
"Tch~" Qiao Yuanxi curled her lips.
In truth, Lu Ran had not lied. His body had indeed been pushed far beyond its limits. He was weak and powerless, while waves of overwhelming drowsiness crashed over him one after another, leaving his spirits drained.
But Lu Ran knew well that he could not pass out. If he woke again, who knew what day it would be?
He forced himself to endure, wrestling with his physical limits again and again. Only under Little Chifeng's nourishment and Qiao Yuanxi's healing did he gradually recover.
Yes, Lu Ran was currently inside the Chifengwen Gourd.
Though his mind was hazy, he vaguely remembered Jiang Ruyi ordering Little Chifeng to swallow him into its belly and swiftly replenish his depleted body.
Later, Xiao Yuanxi had also entered the gourd and summoned a Firefly Cage for him.
Lu Ran remembered some of everything they had done for him.
As for exactly how long he had been recovering, he had no sense of