"Uh..." Ghost Emperor Haoran nearly choked. He wanted to harden his heart and leave the brat to his own devices, but the thought of the terrifying consequences instantly made him cave.
He took a deep breath, then casually asked, "Where are your Yin-Yang Twin Flames? Why haven't you released them to deal with the heavenly tribulation?"
"Don't get me started," Li Yichen said miserably. "My nascent soul swallowed them..."
"Swallowed them?" Ghost Emperor Haoran roared. "Are you kidding me?"
"Could you keep your voice down? You're practically deafening me," Li Yichen grumbled unhappily. "Why would I lie to you? My nascent soul treated them like cotton candy and swallowed them in one bite."
"No... I need to see what's going on." Ghost Emperor Haoran was aghast. He had never heard of a nascent soul devouring otherworldly flames.
With that thought, a strand of his divine sense drifted out from between Li Yichen's brows, then swiftly slipped into Li Yichen's dantian.
As soon as it entered his dantian, the divine sense took on Ghost Emperor Haoran's appearance, clad in white robes with a faint divine glow surrounding him.
I'd better examine this carefully. We can't have anything going wrong... With that thought, Ghost Emperor Haoran rose into the air and flew deeper into Li Yichen's dantian.
"The aura of the Yin-Yang Twin Flames is here..." Ghost Emperor Haoran soon stopped in a corner, murmuring as he sensed the surrounding aura.
The spot where the Yin-Yang Twin Flames had been was now empty. But since the nascent soul had only recently devoured them, a powerful fiery aura still lingered.
"Could it really be true?" Ghost Emperor Haoran frowned, then moved again, flying toward the center.
Soon, at the center of the dantian, he saw a palm-sized little fellow with Li Yichen's features,