"Cough, this is something more advanced than a Martial Soul Fusion Skill."
Han Yuchen wore a grave expression as he switched into his fortune-teller mode.
"Ancient texts call it 'Destiny Resonance.'"
"Destiny?" Leng Yuebai repeated the term.
"That's right."
Han Yuchen pointed at the moon outside the window, then at his own eyes.
"Your Martial Soul possesses Star-Moon attributes, mutated under the influence of Starlight Ruse King. And my Martial Soul... you saw it too. It has Star attributes from Starlight Ruse King as well."
"In this world, Martial Souls with Star attributes are already exceedingly rare."
"We're like two pieces of a puzzle. When separated, we're both incomplete. We feel lonely, and we encounter bottlenecks in our power."
"But when we draw close..."
Han Yuchen deliberately paused and watched Leng Yuebai's expression.
Sure enough, when she heard the words "lonely" and "incomplete," her lashes trembled.
That was her weak point.
Ever since her Martial Soul Awakening, she had lived with an indescribable emptiness, as though she had lost something important but could not remember what it was.
"When we draw close, our souls automatically become whole."
Han Yuchen's voice turned low and magnetic, as if he were recounting an ancient prophecy.
"This proves that we are destined by heaven and earth to be... cough, the best comrades."
He had nearly said they were a match made in heaven, but quickly changed his wording.
This was not the time to flirt. Staying alive came first.
Leng Yuebai fell silent.
She lowered her head to look at the auras that still twined around each other. That instinctive sense of closeness could not be faked.
It was a sense of security she had never experienced in her life.
As long as she was near this young man, the divine power within her