"Tianyu, is that you? Is it really you? I'm not dreaming, am I?" Ling Luochen lunged forward and tightly embraced Bi Tianyu, her delicate body pressed against his as she buried her head in his shoulder and wept.
Bi Tianyu felt somewhat helpless, unsure where to put his hands. Sensing Ling Luochen's sincere feelings, he gently patted her shoulder with one hand. "It's me, Sister Luochen. It's me. You're not dreaming. Haven't you noticed that I've grown a lot over the past two years?"
After his second martial soul awakened, Bi Tianyu used his own Divine Power to condense eight Soul Rings. With the help of those Soul Rings, he had indeed grown considerably in appearance and no longer possessed his former childishness.
Ling Luochen calmed herself and said, "Tianyu, where did you go these past two years? Zhang Lexuan said you charged into that Black Vortex, and then you vanished for two whole years."
Bi Tianyu smiled faintly. "I did enter that Black Vortex, and I successfully broke through my level fifty bottleneck inside it."
Hearing that, Ling Luochen asked, "Then what level is your cultivation now?"
Bi Tianyu replied, "My cultivation is currently at level sixty-one Soul Emperor. I'll reach level sixty-two soon."
Ling Luochen's face filled with delight. "Five levels in a year! Tianyu, no one will ever dare call you a useless medicine jar again. You came out of that Black Vortex and achieved something even those God Sons and Goddesses couldn't accomplish. You're the number one genius on the continent."
"Sister Luochen, I obtained something in there." Bi Tianyu took out a jade box. The moment it opened, an incomparably frigid aura surged out. The surrounding air and soil instantly froze into ice crystals beneath that terrifying chill. Even Ling Luochen, who possessed an Ice