Yongye summoned the coffin used for Rin Nohara's Impure World Reincarnation, drew out her soul, and used Yin-Yang Release to merge it with the newly formed body.
A moment later, the lid of the cultivation tank popped open. Rin Nohara uncurled from the bottom of the tank and stretched out. Her knees and shoulders shifted slightly, then her eyes opened a sliver.
Sunlight poured through the window and fell across her.
Her vision cleared. First she saw the wooden beams overhead, then the unfamiliar man before her.
She glanced down at herself. Her skin had the faint pink tint of new growth, and nothing covered her from shoulder to ankle.
Heat rushed into her cheeks, spread to her ears and down her neck, then crept half an inch below her collarbones before stopping.
She raised her hands to cover her chest, lowered them, then raised them again. When she realized she could not cover everything, she sat up and pressed her knees together to hide what she could. Then she looked up at the figure before her.
"Who are you? Where am I? Where are my clothes?"
Yongye stood two paces from the cultivation tank. Watching her flustered attempts to cover herself, he raised his right hand and gave a casual wave through the air.
Immobility Technique.
Rin's body froze instantly.
Her eyes could still turn, her gaze could still move, and she could still hear.
But the rest of her body felt sealed inside something solid and transparent. She could not bend even her little finger.
She stared at Yongye, her lips still half parted. Her pupils brightened for an instant in the sunlight, then dimmed.
Yongye smiled. "Don't rush. First, I'll show you a good performance. We can talk afterward."
Yongye's New Manor stood on the western