A full ten minutes passed without Chen Miao or Shen Xi saying a word.
Zhao Gongzi had no idea what was happening. He could only stand stiffly to one side, watching the two of them nervously.
By then, their conversation was nearing its end.
It was not that they had run out of things to say. Rather, Chen Miao could already feel the power within Blood Pupil dwindling.
Maintaining Blood Pupil consumed the energy stored within it.
Chen Miao had converted his own soul power into that energy when he formed Blood Pupil.
Once it ran out, Shen Xi would have to replenish it with her own soul power.
But Shen Xi was an ordinary person. Her soul power might only sustain ten sentences of conversation with Chen Miao.
When Chen Miao tested it on the ghost from Twin Ridge Mountain earlier, he had discovered a few issues.
After throwing that ghost into the Mirror Realm, Chen Miao had severed his connection to the realm, yet the ghost could still communicate with him through Blood Pupil.
That unusual property had given him hope that he could communicate with Shen Xi after she entered the Blood Gate.
When the ghost and Chen Miao were in separate spaces and Blood Pupil's power ran out, Chen Miao had two options.
One was to suspend communication with the ghost and let Blood Pupil slowly absorb its soul power, gradually replenishing its own reserves.
The other was to extract the ghost's soul power directly, rapidly replenishing Blood Pupil's power.
The two methods were like "slow charging" and "fast charging" an electric car.
Going slowly had its advantages: it would not damage the soul body's foundations.
Going quickly had its drawbacks: it could leave the soul body weakened and listless. Extract too much, and the soul