Time flowed in extreme silence, every breath seeming especially long.
The pale-purple strands of energy flowing from Lin Chen's fingertips were like the finest embroidery needles, steadily and continuously piercing into Su Ling'er's body. The Purple Cloud Mushroom energy transformed by the Myriad Dao Furnace was gentle yet brimming with vitality, little by little awakening the Life Origin that had nearly fallen dormant within her.
Upon the Cold Jade Bed, the girl's cheeks, once as though covered in snow, gradually revealed a faint flush like that of a normal person sleeping soundly. The ice crystals on her eyelashes had completely melted away. Though her breathing remained light and shallow, it had become steady and rhythmic. The white chill coiling around her body had also noticeably faded, no longer as dense and solid as before.
This was a good sign. Su Ling'er's own vitality was gradually being awakened and stabilized.
Sensing all this, Lin Chen did not relax in the slightest. He knew this was only the first step; the hardest part still lay ahead. Once her vitality began to revive and the fragile balance between it and the Cold Poison was broken, the true backlash would arrive.
He adjusted the manner in which he released his energy. No longer merely nourishing her vitality, a portion of the pale-purple energy refined by the furnace began tentatively wrapping around the deep-blue Cold Poison ice crystals that were less deeply entangled with her meridians, as gently as flowing water.
He was not trying to destroy them by force. Instead, he sought to use this gentle energy to slowly melt, guide, and dissolve the outer layers of Cold Poison, easing their oppression on her vitality.
Yet the instant this new energy touched those deep-blue ice crystals, a sudden change erupted!
It was as though