Hua Qi cautiously retreated several steps, sensing that something was off.
Lin Heng advanced step by step, while she retreated step by step.
In the end, Lin Heng's hand passed through empty air.
Did it clip through her?
A remnant soul was not a physical entity. He could not hug and grope Hua Qi as he had in the Netherworld.
But Lin Heng was certain that she could turn her Divine Soul into a physical form herself. After all, no matter how incorporeal she was, her attacks had to have substance, right?
It was not as though Lin Heng had never seen her personally save Ye Tian.
"Don't be nervous. I'm about to devour and refine all kinds of origins, so you need to help stabilize the Yin Force inside me!"
"Otherwise, once Yang Force enters my body, it'll directly clash with the Yin Force inside. Do you understand what I mean?"
He was not trying to fool her.
Ever since leaving the Underworld, Lin Heng had been suppressing the Yin Force within his body. To put it bluntly, nearly all the True Yuan inside him had been swept up and wrapped away by Yin Force.
The five-element origins had all been pressed beneath it.
Yet he could not completely clear out the Yin Force, because controlling the Six Paths Crossing Ruler and the Zhou Tian Human Emperor Banner both consumed Yin Force.
His body was like a bottle filled to the brim with Yin Force. It was already full, yet if he poured Yang Force into it, some of the Yin Force would be diluted, while some would have to be forced out.
So, he truly needed Hua Qi's help.
Hua Qi bit her lower lip, her cheeks faintly flushed, and shook her head. "Don't think you can trick