Jiang Ruoyao stopped cultivating, her condition stabilizing in her ordinary green-skirted state as the aura around her gradually calmed.
"You're here."
Jiang Ruoyao opened her beautiful eyes and gazed at Hua Yunfei in the distance with a smile, her pupils bright.
"Mm." Hua Yunfei walked up slowly and asked softly, "Are you hiding something from me again?"
"Am I?" Jiang Ruoyao blinked.
"You are!" Hua Yunfei nodded, his expression turning serious. "Your state just now was very strange. I could feel you were about to lose control!"
Whenever Jiang Ruoyao got serious, her entire body turned blood-red. This was her killing-intent form, the true manifestation of the Killing Dao she had been cultivating.
Whenever she brought out this form, it meant she was serious—whoever came, she would kill.
All this time, her killing-intent form had been under control. Jiang Ruoyao could shift into it whenever she wanted.
But just now, he had clearly felt that Jiang Ruoyao's power had been teetering on the brink of losing control!
It felt as if, at any moment, Jiang Ruoyao might become someone else.
Jiang Ruoyao had hidden things from him before, things that endangered her own safety, so this time Hua Yunfei asked her outright.
If something was wrong, they would deal with it immediately!
"You must have sensed it wrong. I was cultivating just now, trying out a new divine ability." Jiang Ruoyao walked up to Hua Yunfei with a smile and obediently explained.
Hua Yunfei looked at the lovely woman before him, gently drew her into his arms, and said quietly, "Tell me."
He naturally trusted Jiang Ruoyao, but what she had just said was a lie. She hadn't told him the truth.
Jiang Ruoyao rested her head on Hua Yunfei's shoulder, feeling the warmth of his embrace. "If one day