Hearing this, Huo Zhi understood even more clearly what mattered most to her.
"No problem!"
She shifted and sat cross-legged opposite Xiao Yan, steadying her breathing until her troubled thoughts settled. Slowly, she raised both hands, palms up, and extended them. Firelight lent her fair hands a lustrous glow.
Xiao Yan extended his palms just as steadily. As their hands drew close, crimson lotus karma flame surged from both of them!
The next instant, their four palms met!
The resonance between their flames, both of the same kind, stirred something deep within Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi. It was a sensation difficult to put into words, but the two of them felt it clearly.
With the aid of the crimson lotus karma flame, their Dou Qi circulated as though it belonged to a single body, passing between them.
Though both possessed the same kind of Heavenly Flame, their flames differed. Xiao Yan's crimson lotus karma flame was fiercely hot and substantial; the flame within Huo Zhi was purer and more concentrated.
As their Dou Qi continued to mingle, the Half-Saint power of Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi temporarily merged into one!
They had first discovered this in the Jia Ma Empire. Ordinarily, they would have spent much more time studying something so important. But fate had played its tricks: a spatial storm separated them for years, leaving them no chance to investigate. On the night at the Pill Tower, they worked together again briefly, only to find something strange. Huo Zhi's Dou Qi could enter Xiao Yan's body, but his could no longer flow back into hers.
The situation had been too urgent to examine closely, so Huo Zhi could only support Xiao Yan.
Then Xiao Yan fell, cutting off any possibility of continuing their research.
Now that they were