"Kong... a-are you okay?"
Liu Ma rubbed his hands, stiff with cold, his teeth chattering nonstop.
The extreme cold within the Fusion Domain: Frostsnow Storm had made even this muscular brute shiver from head to toe, let alone Chen Kong, whose constitution had always been frail.
Chen Kong's lips had frozen purple, fine ice crystals clung to his brows and the tips of his hair, and even his breaths came out in white clouds. He looked like he had just been hauled out of an ice cellar.
Yet when Liu Ma saw Chen Kong's eyes and expression, he froze.
Though Chen Kong looked like he was at the end of his rope, his eyes were growing brighter and brighter, while the Star Energy Fluctuation around him became increasingly powerful.
Before Liu Ma's stunned gaze, Chen Kong's figure vanished from the spot with a whoosh, leaving behind only a faint afterimage.
When he reappeared, he was already standing before the brothers Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang.
At the same time, all cowardice vanished from Chen Kong's eyes without a trace, replaced by an indescribable arrogance and madness.
This guy... was absolutely not the gentle Chen Kong Liu Ma remembered!
Jeremiah, who was watching from nearby, noticed it too.
He stared at Chen Kong, whose temperament had abruptly changed, utterly bewildered.
How had Chen Kong, that dead-last loser, become like a different person in the blink of an eye?
And why did even he... feel danger from him now?
In a daze, Jeremiah remembered the Final Assessment they had taken as children. Back then, no one had thought highly of Chen Kong—not even Chen Kong's sister, Chen Xing.
Only Tiandao thought otherwise. Not only had he declared that Chen Kong's Star Core was anything but ordinary, he had even used it to