Nicole said nothing. She merely looked quietly at Li Ziran. Though this man was far weaker than her, he gave her a peculiar sense of security.
If not for Li Ziran, she might have ceased to exist two years ago.
She understood better than anyone that silence at a time like this was the greatest support she could give him.
She raised her head to watch the ever-flickering misty light. It was as though they stood beneath an aurora in the dark of night, stretching from some distant horizon overhead and vanishing beyond the other edge of sight. If she had not known they were inside Jon's body, she would surely have thought this was some mysterious, wondrous forbidden land somewhere on the Red Soil Continent.
This place was absolutely perfect for a date.
But Li Ziran did not think so. His head felt muddled and heavy. It might have been an aftereffect of absorbing the mist, or perhaps the mist had already seeped into his blood.
That meant he could not enter the heart again and begin a second cycle.
There would only be one chance.
He was frantic, itching to enter Jon's brain at once, but right now, he had to wait.
The blood would carry them to the brain on its own. If he actively ran through the bloodstream, he would only end up trapped in a vast maze of blood vessels with no end in sight.
Whenever the aorta entered an organ, it branched out. Those branches produced new capillaries, and countless densely packed blood vessels interconnected into a maze complex beyond measure.
For now, he and Nicole could only watch those auroras.
Of course, they were not auroras, but pure magic power. The entire stomach was rumbling as it converted elements into magic power while