Fortunately!
Like his Nascent Soul, the Fire Dragon Sword was completely shackled by that mysterious power. It seemed there was little chance of it escaping his body...
At last!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! In a succession of flashes, the Fire Dragon Sword plunged straight into Li Xiaoya's petrified Nascent Soul... It gave him an enormous fright, and ripples spread through the entire sky...
Li Xiaoya had no attention to spare for worrying about that...
Because!
The instant the Fire Dragon Sword left his brain, Li Xiaoya regretted it. The most immediate consequence of its departure was that his sense of pain and all feeling in his physical body returned completely...
At that moment, he could describe it with only one word...
Pain!
An indescribable agony tore through every muscle in his body, as though all his muscles and blood vessels were being ripped apart. His physical body had never actually recovered. He had merely lost his sense of pain and all feeling in his muscles and meridians, which was why he had felt no pain at all...
However.
Li Xiaoya had no time to dwell on that pain.
Because!
As the restrictions shackling his magic power and divine sense grew stronger, Li Xiaoya knew that Liu Xian'er's advancement to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm was nearing its end...
He could no longer spare a thought for anything else...
"Come out!" Li Xiaoya hurriedly sent his divine sense and magic power surging wildly toward the Storage Ring on his hand. Throwing caution to the winds, he pulled out anything his divine sense touched...
Just then!
"Ya!" An utterly familiar voice came from the Secret Realm Necklace... Li Xiaoya shuddered, immediately recognizing Liu Xian'er's voice... He was just about to speak...
Suddenly!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Countless streams of blue light began drawing inward, pouring