Before Flender and the others could step forward to ask—
The second disturbance came.
It was a clear bird cry.
Red light shot into the sky.
In the corner where Ma Hongjun sat, the temperature suddenly soared.
The faint layer of black mist surrounding him—the impurities of his Evil Fire—was incinerated within the red glow, turning into a wisp of green smoke and dispersing.
"Awesome! This feels amazing!"
Ma Hongjun let out a strange shout and sprang straight up from the ground.
The fat on his body visibly shrank by a full circle.
Though he was still fat, he was no longer the bloated ball he had once been. He had become much more solidly built.
Most importantly, his eyes had changed.
The lecherousness and irritability that had constantly plagued him due to the Evil Fire were completely gone.
In their place was a pair of clear, sharp phoenix eyes that seemed to burn with pure flames.
"Teacher! My Evil Fire... it's gone!"
Ma Hongjun was so excited that he could barely speak coherently as he shouted at Flender.
"I feel completely refreshed now. It's like... like I've taken several hundred pounds of rocks off my back!"
Flender's eyes welled with tears.
This final disciple of his had always been a source of worry.
Now, that burden was finally gone.
"Good! Well done!"
Right after that—
Zhu Zhuqing woke up as well.
She did not make much of a commotion.
She merely opened her eyes quietly, then swayed slightly.
Whoosh!
An afterimage remained where she had stood.
The next second, she was already atop the branch of a large tree ten meters away.
She was so fast that even Zhao Wuji saw only a blur.
"Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone..."
Zhu Zhuqing lowered her head to look at her even fairer,