In Box 55, the atmosphere was somewhat quiet.
Long Ma withdrew his gaze from the empty arena below, his brow tightly furrowed, and broke the silence. "Miss, something's wrong. Xiao Yi's martial soul... is completely different from what she showed before."
"It isn't the Ageless Evergreen Ivy. Could it really be Twin Martial Souls? When I received Ou Ya's message before, I didn't quite believe it."
Bo Saixi sat upright in the soft chair, but her exquisitely flawless face was heavy with deep thought, as if she were troubled by something impossible to understand.
After hearing Long Ma's words, she did not answer at once. Only after a moment of silence did she speak with certainty. "It isn't Twin Martial Souls."
Her voice was clear and resolute.
Long Ma froze, then said in a low voice, "But how do we explain this? It's become the Life Vine the announcer mentioned? This change..."
He pointed at the specially made soul-tool crystal screen inside the box, where a brief post-match replay still lingered.
Bo Saixi's profound gaze seemed to pierce through the walls of the box and land on the place where Xiao Yi had fought just now, even though it was already empty.
She shook her head slightly, her tone carrying a trace of doubt even she could not fully sort out. "I don't know the exact reason either."
"But my intuition tells me it shouldn't be as simple as Twin Martial Souls."
This was an instinctive judgment born from her experience and her familiarity with Xiao Yi.
The nearly fatal accident Chen Xiaojun had suffered that time surfaced in her mind unbidden—his heart injured, his breathing stopped, his life hanging by a thread.
At that life-or-death moment, if Xiao Yi truly had another martial soul called the "Life Vine" that