"Thank you..."
"Eh!?" Jiu Ming froze for a moment. That opening line was already setting a rather strange rhythm.
"Is that wrong? Isn't that how humans say it?" Seeing Jiu Ming's astonishment, Tree Loli tilted her head and asked.
"Ahem, all right. I was making a fuss over nothing." Jiu Ming coughed lightly and looked at his hands. Even such a simple motion as raising one hand made him exceedingly cautious, afraid that one careless move would demolish Tree Loli's little shop.
Mm, the power within his body, which had taken on the form of high-speed fluid, had spontaneously come to a stop upon reaching Tree Loli's vicinity, gathering together like transparent solid threads.
It had been suppressed?
He clenched his fist, and no wildly fluctuating burst occurred. Only after confirming this did Jiu Ming let out a soft breath. At last, he no longer had to suffer through playing a statue.
"Um... can you help me deal with this?" Jiu Ming spread open his palm and asked. This abnormality was suppressed here, so it had to be because of Tree Loli. Once he left this place, it would definitely return to normal immediately.
"Yes."
Tree Loli nodded. She did nothing else, yet Jiu Ming saw transparent ripples all around him—formless and intangible, identical to the high-speed fluid inside his body—press into his body. Then, the two nearly identical forms of power erupted into a violent clash the instant they came into contact.
The collision made Jiu Ming bare his teeth. It really hurt!
The clash did not last long. After all, one side had no support from behind, while the other was like an endless sea, swiftly suppressing the former. Then the two powers merged together... That was right—they actually merged!
"Eh?" Jiu Ming stared blankly at his palm