Xiao Yan sat on a stool beside the bed, looking at Liuli, who was blushing and curled up beneath the blankets. He rubbed his nose and smiled awkwardly. "Does your dantian still hurt?"
Liuli was wearing only a thin gauze garment. Covering her stomach, she did not dare emerge from the blankets. After stammering for a long while without managing to say anything, she finally lowered her head and muttered softly, "A little, but it's nothing serious anymore."
A day ago, she had just taken back the fire seed of the Yin Yang Twin Flames from Xiao Yan.
Unlike last time, when she had merely granted him the right to use it at the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, Liuli had directly given Xiao Yan its origin source in her desperation this time. Thus, over the past month, the fire seed had already shown obvious signs of being refined by Xiao Yan unconsciously.
After returning to Liuli's body, the Heavenly Flames naturally produced a considerable rejection reaction. This made her Sword Heart, already frail and bearing two cracks, even worse.
During the period when the pain had made her faint, another crack had appeared on her Sword Heart. Although it did not yet affect the circulation or use of her Dou Qi, she could no longer use amplification skills as freely as before.
Otherwise, within five uses, her entire Sword Heart would shatter outright. At that point, unless she used a Secret Method and spent nearly half a year repairing it, she would be unable to mobilize Dou Qi for battle.
Without Dou Qi, she would merely be a paper tiger with an intimidating realm aura...
But none of that was the important part!
While she had been unconscious, she had a very strange dream.
In the