"Four and a half hours..." Liuli floated cross-legged above the clouds, propping up her head as she stared at the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower below, muttering boredly.
In the Original Work, Fallen Heart Flame erupted just after Xiao Yan finished tempering his body, before he had time to leave the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. When that happened, she would have to go in and get Xiao Yan out first.
The novel had not mentioned exactly how long body tempering took, so she waited and waited—from morning until afternoon, then from afternoon until dusk—yet Xiao Yan and the others still had not emerged.
If she had not been able to sense that the dozen or so life auras at the bottom of the tower were normal, she would have thought something had happened to them.
Just as she was preparing to refine some pills in the sky to pass the time, the gates of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower slowly opened, and Su Qian and the other nine emerged one after another.
Some looked listless, while others were positively radiant. Clearly, not everyone had succeeded in tempering their bodies.
"Hm?" Liuli frowned slightly and swept her gaze around, but did not spot Xiao Yan.
She immediately swooped down to the ground, then jogged over to Su Qian as he slowly walked out and asked in confusion, "Great Elder, where's Xiao Yan?"
Just as Su Qian was about to speak, Zi Yan bounced out and said, "Something seems to have gone wrong with Xiao Yan's body tempering. He hasn't failed, but he still hasn't succeeded either. We waited for him for nearly an hour, so we just came out first."
Liuli's expression stiffened, then her brows shot up as she shouted, "How could you leave Xiao Yan alone at