Huotian opened the box. Inside lay a purple crystal, quietly breathing as though it possessed life, sending out waves of mysterious pulses.
"This truly is a substance that has never appeared before!" Huotian touched the crystal with her hand. "My divine sense cannot enter it at all. This has never happened before, but I can sense a mysterious power within it!"
A Saint was, after all, a Saint. Merely touching it had given her an understanding far deeper than that of the Vermilion Bird Clan.
Zhou Heng said, "My body is longing for it. It desperately wants to merge with this crystal!"
Huotian could not help but be astonished. Such a thing actually existed!
But Zhou Heng had achieved the supreme great perfection of both the Star Realm and the Celestial River Realm—something equally unprecedented. Thus, it was perfectly understandable for strange things to happen to him.
Under Huotian's watchful gaze, Zhou Heng slowly extended his hand toward the purple crystal.
He moved very slowly, yet neither Huotian nor Zhou Heng showed any impatience. Instead, both were incomparably cautious.
But no matter how small the distance, it would eventually be crossed no matter how slowly he moved!
The tip of Zhou Heng's index finger touched the crystal.
Buzz!
The purple crystal trembled gently, then vanished with a whoosh!
It had merged into Zhou Heng's body!
And that was it!
There was no earth-shaking upheaval, no strange splendor in the heavens. Everything remained so calm, as if nothing had happened at all.
Wasn't this purple crystal supposed to be impervious to all power? How could it merge into a body?
"You—" Huotian looked at Zhou Heng, just about to speak, when she suddenly discovered that his entire body was radiating purple light. Then she could no longer see him at all;