With the contract sealed, that sense of control deep within the soul came along with it.
Following their agreement, Lin Heng opened the Soul-Suppressing Stone Disk and let her out.
"Senior, if you're staying by my side from now on, you have to behave, okay?"
"..." Hua Qi said nothing. She merely glared at him before flying away at once.
"Hey! Junior Brother, why did you let her go?" Leng Qingqiu stepped forward, asking in confusion.
"Don't worry. She won't go far. She was probably trapped inside the Stone Disk for too long and wants to take a walk!"
"Brat, are you about to break through?"
Saint Ye suddenly asked out of nowhere.
"(???) You could see that? This sharp edge of mine is just too hard to hide!" Lin Heng put on a deliberately profound and restrained expression.
"What do you mean?"
"Little Senior Sister, I'm already at the Nascent Soul Peak Stage. I'm only one step away from the Spirit Transformation threshold, and I don't even dare refine spiritual energy now."
"Ah? Why...?"
"What do you mean, why?"
"If you can break through, why wouldn't you?" Leng Qingqiu said, then suddenly realized something and hurriedly added, "No, no, that's not right. Weren't you only at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage a month ago? How could you possibly break through to Spirit Transformation directly?"
One month!
This was also what puzzled Saint Ye!
He had not paid much attention to how high Lin Heng's cultivation was before, but once he took a close look, it was truly shocking!
Lin Heng patiently explained to them what had happened inside the Mountain Abode.
"Oh? Time acceleration within a small space—there was actually such a method? Not only did it fail to kill you, it even let you, brat, pick up a