The Greater the Power, the Greater the Responsibility: Lan Yin and Gu Yuena's First Confrontation

The cascading waterfall crashed straight down onto Tang Chuan's body with a sizzling hiss. The high heat forcibly evaporated most of the water that touched him, sending up a vast cloud of white mist that blurred the view inside the cave.

The rushing water quickly filled the bowl-shaped Blue Silver Grass, and the water level began to rise, gradually soaking past their collars.

Lan Yin's light, cloudlike dress was now completely drenched, clinging tightly to her graceful figure and faintly revealing the outline of her pale underclothes.

Tang Chuan's Spirit Bone evolution had come quite suddenly. Since the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he had slain countless Evil Soul Masters over the years. Their Life Origin had been converted into Soul Power to fuel Tang Chuan's cultivation, while their souls had been stripped away and absorbed by the Soul-Eating Ant Emperor External Bone to strengthen itself. It was practically the Douluo world's Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

If the two breakthroughs had occurred separately, Lan Yin would not have been so nervous. But Tang Chuan's cultivation and Spirit Bone had broken through at the same time. If even the slightest mistake occurred during this process, these three months of seclusion would likely be wasted.

Just as Lan Yin focused on stabilizing the violent Soul Power within Tang Chuan's body,

a series of crisp footsteps slowly approached from afar.

"Who's there?!" As a figure emerged from the white mist, Lan Yin's gaze sharpened. She immediately summoned two vines that wrapped around the other person's arms.

Gu Yuena remained expressionless, as though the vines' powerful restraints had no effect on her whatsoever.

"So that's it. You must be the one Xiao Chuan mentioned, the person who has been hiding in the shadows and watching him." Lan Yin frowned slightly. Even when facing