Xia Xuan hesitated for a moment, then squeezed out several more drops of blood and let them fall into the lake before her.
The process was the same as before. The blood completely dissolved into the water, and only when the lake water stained with Xia Xuan's blood came into contact with Ye Tian did the change occur and the water begin to boil.
The pain she had already experienced came flooding back.
But before long, the boiling water ceased once again.
Now Xia Xuan was completely certain of her guess. The boiling of the lake water was clearly sustained by consuming her blood.
In other words, if she wanted the changes to continue, she had to provide a constant supply of sufficient blood to maintain them.
At the same time, she had to endure the scorching agony that made her mind feel as if it were about to collapse.
Such torment was absolutely not something an ordinary person could endure.
Most crucially, Xia Xuan herself had no way of knowing how much of her blood would be enough. She could not even be certain that continuing like this would truly allow Ye Tian to recover.
But the method before her was already the only hope.
Xia Xuan was willing to gamble on that hope.
She raised her head and looked toward Long Cang on the distant shore.
"Great Elder, I have a favor to ask of you," Xia Xuan said.
"Miss Xia, please give your instructions," Long Cang said. Although Long Cang's cultivation far surpassed Xia Xuan's, and Wu Kai and Wei Tong beside him were also Enlightenment stage experts, because of Ye Tian, they had always been extremely courteous toward Xia Xuan.
"If I do not come out alive, and if Senior has not awakened, I ask the