Clashing Fates

Jiang Li turned back and teased Hu Liena, "What? Do you want to absorb this Soul Ring too?"

"No, no, no."

Hu Liena hurriedly waved her hands and explained, "I just meant, you're only a Soul Ancestor. Wouldn't absorbing a Soul Ring with such a high cultivation be too risky?"

What Hu Liena had really wanted to say was whether this was simply courting death, but when the words reached her lips, she changed them to the more tactful "risky."

"Oh?"

Jiang Li teased, "So Miss Hu Liena was worried about me? I thought you wanted to absorb this Soul Ring too."

Hu Liena's phoenix eyes trembled slightly as she retorted, "O-of course not."

"Is that so?" Jiang Li said. "Then I wonder whether the reward Miss Hu Liena promised earlier can be fulfilled?"

"A reward?"

Hu Liena froze for a moment before recalling what Jiang Li had said earlier.

If he could save her, she would reward him with a kiss.

"Th-this... this... this..."

Hu Liena's heart immediately fell into chaos.

She had never even held a man's hand from childhood until now, and now she was supposed to take the initiative and kiss Jiang Li?

A plume of heart-shaped steam rose from Hu Liena's head. Her eyes turned into spirals, and her brain began to shut down.

"Ugh~"

Hu Liena let out an incoherent whimper, then closed her eyes and fainted.

"Her Martial Soul is clearly a Demon Fox, and her Soul Skills all lean toward spiritual Charm, yet she's unexpectedly innocent."

Jiang Li stepped forward to support Hu Liena's body and held her in his arms. Looking at her lovely face, he found her more and more amusing. "She really can't take a joke."

"I wonder who it was that became completely flustered when he was first