Time rewound to five hours earlier...
"Waaah!"
Liuli abruptly sat up from the pool, the lingering throbbing pain in her head leaving her vision spinning.
"Hiss... Wh-where is this?"
After rubbing her temples for a long while, she finally wiped the tears from her eyes and looked around. Then she suddenly realized she was in Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion within the Heavenly Tomb.
"Oh? You actually woke up?"
At that moment, a slightly surprised male voice drew her attention.
The Young Girl focused her gaze and saw a man standing by the pool, watching her with a smile.
"Y-you-you..." The moment she saw Xiao Xuan's face, all her memories from before she fainted came flooding back. She kept scrambling backward through the pool, trembling as she pointed at him. Stammering, she said, "I-I have no grudge against you, and I've never d-done anything to wrong the Xiao Clan. Wh-what exactly are you trying to do to me?"
You really couldn't judge people based on stereotypes. The Xiao Xuan from the Original Work had been kind, but that was only toward Xiao Yan, a descendant of the Xiao Clan!
Xiao Xuan shrugged and smiled. "I've already done what needed to be done."
Liuli hurriedly began checking herself. She scanned her body with Soul Power for a long time, only to find that aside from being soaked from falling into the water, she had not lost even a single hair. Not only had she lost nothing, she seemed to have gained something instead...
Gained what?!
Liuli's gaze settled on her lower abdomen. When her Spiritual Sense entered it, she discovered that, at some unknown point, a writhing ball of light had appeared in the place where life was nurtured!
"What did you put inside me?!"
Liuli continuously circulated her cultivation technique, sending