Hearing that "Senior Brother," Li Qing couldn't help but feel deeply moved. Memories of everything they had gone through together in the lower realm surged through his mind like crashing waves.
Scene after scene from the past rose before his eyes. Li Qing let out a soft sigh and said, "Junior Sister, I've kept you waiting for too long all these years."
At that moment, a trace of Li Qing's divine sense entered Shen Ningbing's sea of consciousness, where he could see the vague yet slender form of her pale-blue Primordial Spirit.
Sensing all of this, Shen Ningbing could no longer bear the ache of longing. She gathered the trace of Li Qing's divine sense within her sea of consciousness into her embrace.
"Senior Brother, I knew you would come to the upper realm."
"The road of ascension was endlessly long. Even with the guidance of the Yin-Yang Spiritual Seal, it still required magical power to activate. Though I was fortunate enough not to encounter spatial turbulence and the like, before I had even crossed half the journey, I exhausted all my magical power and spirit stones in the void. Even the spiritual medicines and pills on me were completely used up."
"Left with no other choice, I could only use the Forbidden Secret Technique in my cultivation art, paying the price of turning my body into ice crystal in exchange for restoring more magical power."
"I thought I would lose myself forever in that boundless, misty void and never see you again. But just as seventy percent of my body had turned into ice crystal, I finally descended into the Spirit Realm."
"But it was already too late. The process of my body transforming into an ice-crystal body had become completely irreversible. Even the elders of the Yin-Yang Sect