"Now that's more like it."
Xu Jingming grinned, his white teeth especially conspicuous in the dim light.
"When we get back to Blue Star,
if Ye Lan and the others find out you used to call me that, how embarrassing would that be?"
As soon as he finished speaking,
Niki immediately imagined Ye Lan and the others staring wide-eyed, their faces full of disbelief.
Her pretty face could not help flushing slightly.
Amid her mature and seductive charm, she rarely revealed such a girlish bashfulness.
However, at that moment—
Boom!!!
An incomparably surging and pure energy fluctuation suddenly erupted from the abyssal void in the distance!
The fluctuation was so intense that it was as if some rare treasure of heaven and earth had suddenly emerged!
"Gasp—!"
Vera, the little succubus, instantly darted out of Xu Jingming's Sea of Consciousness in her Soul Body and exclaimed excitedly:
"Something good! A top-tier natural treasure has definitely appeared!
Quick! Get over there! If we're too slow, someone else will snatch it!"
Xu Jingming reacted swiftly, lightning flaring in his eyes!
"Let's go!"
With a wave of his hand, he directly stored Niki in the World Ring.
The Wind-Thunder Wings behind him unfolded with a whoosh, erupting with golden-green streams of light!
His entire body transformed into a bolt of lightning that tore through the darkness, racing toward the source of the fluctuation!
He was so fast that he left behind a trail of lightning that lingered for a long while!
Half a minute later.
Xu Jingming hovered in an open dark red void.
His Wind-Thunder Wings beat lightly as he narrowed his purple-red eyes and looked ahead.
Before him, the dark abyssal backdrop seemed to have been forced apart by some invisible power.
A black lotus was slowly blooming!
The lotus was