However, Gu Tian knew he absolutely couldn't reveal the truth at this moment. He feigned confusion, tilted his head, thought for a moment, and then shook his head somewhat naively:
"Something strange? What did Brother Qinghe mean? I remember at the time... I felt a little bit of a tingling sensation, probably due to static electricity caused by the dryness of late autumn?"
"Static electricity?!"
Xue Qinghe seemed to have heard something absurd, and he stood up anxiously, waving his hands forcefully. "I'm sure it's definitely not static electricity! That kind of Soul Power spontaneously surging into the meridians, a pure response that makes one's soul tremble, could never be ordinary static electricity!"
No wonder Qian Renxue lost her composure like that.
After returning to the palace last night, she immediately told Guang Ling and Ling Yuan, who were lurking in the shadows, about this strange phenomenon.
As a powerful figure in the Worship Hall, Guang Ling's knowledge far surpasses that of ordinary Soul Master. After listening to the description, she deduced with an unusually solemn expression: there is only one explanation for this phenomenon that can cause a top-tier Angel Martial Soul to instinctively leap with joy— Gu Tian's Martial Soul, the Chaos Dragon God, and Qian Renxue's Six-Winged Angel have achieved a divine resonance of the same attribute and rank.
In order to verify this truth that was enough to shake the foundation of the Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue disregarded etiquette and sent someone to forcibly summon Gu Tian early the next morning.
However, due to the constraints of her identity, Qian Renxue absolutely could not reveal that her Martial Soul was Six-Winged Angel. That would be tantamount to exposing her identity in public.
She took a deep breath, forcibly calming her turbulent emotions, and sat back down on the sofa. She looked at Gu Tian, a carefully crafted lie flashing in her eyes:
"Brother Gu Tian, you may not know this. Although our Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Martial Soul is the Swan, my Martial Soul ... underwent some benign mutations during its awakening. My Swan Martial Soul has fused with a portion of extremely pure light elements, which is why outsiders have perceived my cultivation as a lack of skill in cultivation over the years. In reality, I have been suppressing that unstable power."
Xue Qinghe continued earnestly:
"Last night's encounter has made the power of light within me more active than ever before. I think it might be because your Gu Tian Martial Soul is quite special, possessing some kind of extreme light attribute, that it resonated with my Mutated Martial Soul in this wondrous way. So... I want to verify it again to see what's going on."
After speaking, Xue Qinghe slowly extended his right hand towards Gu Tian, with a faint golden light flickering in his palm.
Looking at Xue Qinghe's right hand, which was hovering in mid-air and emanating subtle fluctuations of Soul Power, Gu Tian did not respond immediately.
He could sense that beneath that fair skin lay an extremely pure and oppressive power, a power that would never be displayed when facing an ordinary Soul Master.
Gu Tian knew that Qian Renxue in front of him was anxious; she desperately wanted to understand Gu Tian. It seemed that the allure of Aria's aura as the Light Dragon King was greater for her than he had imagined.
Gu Tian pondered for a moment, a look of hesitation followed by determination on his face. He slowly extended his left hand, and in a faint, nine-colored light, he tightly grasped Xue Qinghe's hand.
"Boom--!"
The instant their palms met, a muffled booming sound resounded in their minds almost simultaneously.
It was no longer the elusive, electric sensation of last night, but a powerful, unrestrained eruption like a bursting dam. From the point of contact between the two, a dense, almost liquid, golden-purple Soul Power surged wildly from their palms.
Gu Tian felt an unprecedented holy aura flowing continuously into his left hand through the meridians. The power was warm and pure, yet it carried a sense of divine judgment overlooking all living beings. It came from the core divinity of the Six-Winged Angel.
For Xue Qinghe, this feeling was more like a completion of her soul. The divine power of light flowing within Gu Tian's body originated from the ultimate light of Aria, carrying a profound weight of the primordial being. Her Six-Winged Angel essence trembled excitedly at this moment, even causing her long-sealed Angel God Soul Bone Set to resonate subtly.
At this moment, the Soul Power of the two actually broke through the barrier of attributes through that point of contact, and began an extremely mysterious fusion and connection.
Every second, their Soul Power circulates through each other's bodies in a complete cycle.
"What... what is this feeling?" Xue Qinghe murmured in disbelief. She even forgot her disguised prince voice, her tone filled with extreme intoxication and disbelief. The mystery of this Martial Soul could probably only be truly felt by experiencing it firsthand.
Within Gu Tian's Sea of Consciousness, Ao Linxi, who had been meditating, suddenly opened her eyes, and an unprecedented brilliance erupted from her pair of Nine-Colored Divine Eyes.
" Xiao Tian, calm your mind! Quickly execute the Nine-Turn Dragon Breath!" Ao Linxi's voice was filled with rare excitement. "It's amazing! The Six-Winged Angel represents the highest level of justice and judgment in this plane, while Aria represents the source of light. The combination of the two has actually created a closed loop similar to divine resonance!"
Ao Linxi rapidly examined the data within Gu Tian's meridians and exclaimed, "The speed at which your Soul Power is now executing... is three times... no, five times faster than before! Your cultivation efficiency has completely surpassed the effect of simply using the Nine-Turn Dragon Breath! This fusion cultivation is practically a cross-level empowerment using divine power! I didn't sense it during yesterday's contact; I thought it was just a resonance of our Soul Power. I never expected it could actually accelerate the speed of Soul Power cultivation!"
Ao Linxi was somewhat surprised. She had thought that Gu Tian's cultivation speed would definitely slow down after losing all kinds of rare treasures. She had even prepared herself for a long battle with Gu Tian. Unexpectedly, Gu Tian had actually resonated with this heir of the Six-Winged Angel in the divine plane. If this method could really speed up Gu Tian's cultivation, then her plan could be completed sooner. Calculating the time, eight days had already passed in the Divine Realm.
Gu Tian closed his eyes tightly, no longer caring about the pretense of the outside world. He could feel that his Soul Power, which had already faintly touched the threshold of level thirty-five, was becoming more refined at a visible speed under the scouring of this golden torrent.
The feeling was like two lonely stars finding their gravitational orbit at this moment, bursting forth with a brilliance many times greater than their original forms.
Inside the Crown Prince's Palace, golden light and nine-colored rays of light almost completely engulfed the two of them. Time seemed to lose its meaning at this moment, with only the endless, cyclical Tide of Soul Power writing the miracles of a god within this small space.