"Ah!"
Yu Sheng's shriek suddenly rang through the room.
She seemed to jolt awake from a dream. Her little face had gone deathly pale as she stared at the figure before her in terror.
Lin Shu was just as puzzled.
He had only touched her Essence Blood as he usually did, intending to wake the little cub and ask her a few questions.
He had done this plenty of times before, but this time, something suddenly felt different.
It was as if, with a single thought, he could take the life of this Immortal Scion.
"Wait."
Lin Shu suddenly realized what was happening and curled his fingers slightly.
During his fight with Xia Mingtang just now, the Filthy Moon Wolf Lord in his heart had released a little of its magic power and sent it into his body.
That had been what allowed him to break the tiger's Immortal Method illusion.
At a slight stir of Lin Shu's mind, wisps of black qi surged out of his body and returned to the Filthy Moon Wolf Lord.
He had a rough idea why things had changed.
Earlier, he had only been at the Qi Refining stage. Even with the Essence Blood in his possession, he could only force Yu Sheng to obey him; he couldn't actually hurt her.
But the Filthy Moon Wolf Lord's magic power was genuine Foundation Establishment Realm power, even stronger than that of this premature Little Chick.
In short, he'd gotten stronger without realizing it and had nearly squeezed her to death—
"Ahhh! I know you have my Essence Blood. Could you stop messing around with it? I didn't do anything to you."
Yu Sheng pouted, looking so wronged she was almost on the verge of tears.
She was already being good, and she was still getting