Blood Rose lay in bed, tossing and turning but unable to sleep. Irritated, she sat up again. "Damn you, Huo Hai. Couldn't you have come back tomorrow? Honestly, you're so annoying, so annoying..." she muttered angrily.
Had Huo Hai seen this girlish display, he would probably have been astonished. This clearly wasn't an act she put on in front of others; it was how Blood Rose behaved when no one was around. Could this be her true personality?
Blood Rose hugged the quilt, then suddenly thought of something and flung it aside. For some reason, she now felt that Huo Hai's scent still lingered on the quilt and bed. Honestly, I didn't notice it when I went to sleep earlier. Why did I notice it the moment Huo Hai came back? So annoying.
Taking a deep breath, Blood Rose dressed and turned her gaze to the Earthfire Crimson Lotus Huo Hai had just given her. "Hmph, at least you did one good thing. That fellow... could he really not know how precious this is?"
After some thought, she decided that Huo Hai really might not know. Many of the Southern Nations' legacies had been broken off long ago. The common belief there was that the grade of Source Spirit Stone one absorbed determined the ultimate limit one could reach.
Likewise, they believed that whichever Source Spirit Treasure one used during a breakthrough would determine the only abilities one could ever wield afterward. In reality, that was wrong. Since ancient times, many people who had struggled at first had later risen to prominence. For their own sake, and for their descendants, countless people had continually researched ways to break through the limits imposed by Source Spirit Stones and Source Spirit Treasures.
The best and most direct method was to forcibly shatter