In District Seven, I ran into Tian Zi's team, which had gathered together.
When Yun Heng and Di Gou saw me with Night Winter, their initial excitement immediately turned into a full-blown roast session.
"What? We nearly lost our souls! We thought you had gone through untold hardships!"
"Exactly! I thought you'd practically sold your soul to Child Spirit for our sake!"
Although Night Winter was also part of the team, seeing that I was the only man among them, she couldn't help asking, "Do you have some kind of grudge against men?"
We were still some distance away, so before we caught up with the team, I chuckled and teased, "You weren't starved for love as a child, so you all turned out like this when you grew up."
"Hmph. When women get ruthless, they're far more terrifying than you men." Night Winter gave a soft snort.
I neither agreed nor disagreed. Facing the wind, I caught Di Gou as she flung herself at me.
"What? I really was exhausted rescuing you. What you're seeing now is merely me trying to put your mind at ease."
As I gently patted her soft back, I sensed a dense concentration of elements circulating within her body. It seemed she had also found Star Marrow and undergone a racial mutation, but the compatibility after the mutation was merely average.
If she had managed to resonate with seventy or eighty percent of it, the mutation of her body would have been far more pronounced.
Thus, Di Gou's current state could be considered a failed mutation.
"I'm completely at ease. Everyone already guessed that the person called Night Winter definitely wasn't a man, but a beauty no less stunning than Tian Zi! So you're the only one with ill intentions here. How could we