So soft...
That was Xu Qing's final thought before he lost consciousness.
"Mm..." Xu Qing opened his eyes, stared at the ceiling with a third of his view blocked, and murmured, "An unfamiliar ceiling..."
"Pap, pap, pap—"
A cool little hand pressed against Xu Qing's cheek with no gentleness whatsoever, attempting to wake the dazed human through simple physical impact.
"Oh~ You're awake?" The Ice Empress's clear voice rang beside Xu Qing's ear. "Xu Qing, you're seriously lame. It was just a little Soul Power overdraft, and you slept for three whole days."
"Three days. Do you know how I spent these three days?" She chattered on and on about how hard she had worked these past few days.
But Xu Qing did not hear a single word.
His mind sank into his body, and his spiritual power flowed along his extraordinary meridians into his dantian, landing on that Soul Core that had clearly changed.
The originally translucent ice-blue color was now mixed with some bright green, like the veins on the back of a leaf, faintly visible.
The Ice Empress's Soul Power fluctuations...
His spiritual power lingered for a long while, checking it from every angle, but he could not find anything wrong. He only felt that his Soul Power had become even deeper and more abundant.
"Xu Qing? Are you listening to me or not?" the Ice Empress said with a frown.
Seriously. To think I worried every day about whether something had happened to you, whether you were in danger, and stayed by your side these past few days, carefully nourishing your body with Soul Power every day. And this is how you treat me.
The Ice Empress suddenly became unhappy.
She glared fiercely at Xu Qing and was about to leave, no longer wanting