Please Don't Abandon Me, Master

Yao Wan chuckled softly. Then, with a slight turn of her slender, fair fingertips, she gathered a strand of soul power and tapped it into Xiao Yan's brow.

Xiao Yan had no intention of dodging. The trust between them needed no further words.

Yet before he could think any further, the presence that entered Xiao Yan's mind along with Yao Wan's soul power interrupted his thoughts.

With Xiao Yan's current Heavenly Soul, he naturally sensed its profundity. As Yao Wan's soul power gradually faded away, revealing its true form layer by layer as though silk were being unwound from a cocoon, mysterious characters appeared clearly within Xiao Yan's mind.

"...Dou Shen Unity Battle Method?"

Xiao Yan instinctively murmured the thing he had perceived entirely through his soul power, unable to keep a trace of astonishment from his voice.

Yao Wan did not interrupt Xiao Yan. She herself had pondered over this battle method for a long time. She had already conceived the idea back when she was a Dou Zun, and as she steadily improved her strength, she had constantly explored the possibilities of this secret technique. Yet it was only after she successfully broke through to the Dou Sheng realm that this method was finally completed.

As for why...

"This is a method that combines life, cultivation, and soul realm. It can stack the realms of all three and unleash power corresponding to that..."

As Xiao Yan unconsciously murmured the characters he saw, his eyes slowly widened.

"...Stack the realms?"

Xiao Yan suddenly felt as though he could no longer read.

He even temporarily withdrew from that perfect state of immersing himself in cultivation and study. A trace of bewilderment surfaced in his dark crimson eyes, and after a moment, he finally broke the silence between them and asked,