Hearing a rapid succession of footsteps outside, Fang Zi finally sprang away like a startled deer.
Her face flushed, she did not dare look at Tang Lan or the people rushing over outside the Stone Gate.
"Fang Zi, how are you? Are you hurt?"
Tang Ya and the others opened the Stone Gate with anxious expressions.
Yet all they saw was Tang Lan standing where he was, and Fang Zi with her back to everyone.
"N-No, it's nothing. We're both fine, and I've successfully broken through as well."
Fang Zi turned her head aside, her flushed face making her words sound somewhat unnatural.
Jiang Nannan, standing nearby, asked in confusion, "Eh? Sister Fang Zi, why is your face so red?"
"Ah! Is it? Maybe it's because I just broke through, and my blood and qi are a little unstable. D-Don't mind it."
The more Fang Zi spoke, the redder her face became. Even her words started to stammer.
"Is that so?"
The women exchanged looks. Though their faces held doubts, they instinctively believed Fang Zi's explanation.
After listening to Fang Zi and Tang Lan's account, everyone finally learned what had happened.
It turned out that the earlier phenomenon had occurred because Fang Zi could not control the violent Soul Power within her body, causing her martial soul ability to expand wildly.
"That's great! Now that Sister Fang Zi has joined us, our hunting squads really have a chance of being formed."
Upon hearing that Fang Zi had become an eighty-ninth-rank Soul Master, Xiao Xiao was the first to leap up in delight.
The others exchanged looks as well, their eyes unable to conceal their joy.
Only Fang Zi, who had just awakened, still did not know exactly what had happened.
That afternoon, Tang Lan went once more to the entrance