Dragon Phoenix's Growth Period

Strange.

Xiao Yan naturally found it strange.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Zi Yan herself did not think much of it, but seeing Xiao Yan sizing her up from head to toe, she could not help but frown.

Smack.

Zi Yan could not help smacking Xiao Yan's arm, though she naturally held back her strength.

"What? Is this your first time seeing me? Why are you making such a strange face?"

Yet the confusion in Xiao Yan's eyes did not fade.

"Five stars?"

"Obviously."

"I just feel like you're more than merely Five Star now. Even your aura seems stronger than before."

Zi Yan was already finding it hard to contain her utter speechlessness.

"My cultivation has improved. Could my aura possibly become weaker? I think that Black Demon Lightning fried something wrong with your brain."

As she spoke, wisps of black lightning had already emerged from Zi Yan's fingertips. She was determined to test the results of Xiao Yan's month of tempering his body with lightning.

"Not that kind of aura—"

Xiao Yan repeatedly waved his hands. He was fairly tough, but that did not mean he had any masochistic tendencies.

"Back in the Exotic Flame Space, when you were at Four Star, you could only barely protect yourself against the Hall Master of Soul Hall. But now that you're at Five Star, why do I feel like the gap between us has suddenly narrowed so much?"

Zi Yan's fingers paused. That question had truly hit the mark.

"Probably... because I'm about to pass through my youth phase?"

"Youth phase? What does that mean?"

Zi Yan's habit of counting on her fingers left Xiao Yan somewhat confused, but as his thoughts stretched further, several guesses involuntarily surfaced in his eyes.

"Is Zi Yan, as a Dragon