Xiao Yun watched for a while, then turned and walked out of the Cultivation Room, gently closing the door behind him.
He went outside the small courtyard where the Cultivation Room was located, called over several maids, and told them to prepare the manor's bathroom, as well as prepare clothes for Shui Ruoyan and the others.
Only then did he return to the outside of the Cultivation Room. He leaned against the walls, closed his eyes to rest, and while waiting for them to wake, sent his soul into the Vast Wilderness Realm to complete his daily Bounty Missions and his usual cultivation.
It was not until dawn the next day, when the morning sun had just risen, that the door of the Cultivation Room finally opened from within.
Shui Ruoyan was the first to come out.
She stood in the doorway and lowered her head to look at her hands—her hands were still those same hands, but they felt different. She could sense a faint thread of Qi flowing in her palms. Though it was very weak, it truly existed. The feeling was strange, as if something she had never possessed before had appeared.
Yao Yuerou was the second to come out. She raised a hand and touched her forehead—the Thorn Crown was still there, but the skin beneath the crown had become much more delicate than before, smooth as a baby's. She was not used to it, and reached up to touch it again and again.
Shui Bing'er came out third, and her change was the greatest. The Ice Phoenix Martial Soul flickered in and out behind her, its expression far more lively than before, its golden eyes seeming even brighter. She frowned slightly and restrained her aura. The Ice Phoenix phantom dispersed, but that piercing Cold Qi