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"Oh? Junior Brother Li, are you coming out?" Zhang Hong cried in delighted surprise.
Crack, crack, crack! Fracturing sounds kept coming from the gray-black statue. Before long, cracks covered its entire body.
With a crash, Li Xiaoya suddenly rose from his seated meditation posture. A gray-black shell as thin as a cicada's wing fell away with his movements, scattering to the floor and revealing his actual body before Zhang Hong.
"Ah, Junior Brother, you did it!" Zhang Hong sprang up and hugged Li Xiaoya as soon as he emerged. But the moment she saw his face, she could not help bursting into laughter. He was still completely bare, without a single hair anywhere on his body.
"Uh, Senior Sister, I only just came out. Do you really have to react like that?" Li Xiaoya said with a wry smile.
"Hehe, no, I'm just happy to see you!" Zhang Hong giggled, though her peculiar grin hardly supported that claim. Seeing his somewhat dejected expression, she held back her laughter and asked, "So, Junior Brother, how do you feel... Oh, you look awful! Put some clothes on!" Before she finished, her gaze inadvertently landed somewhere it should not have, and she spat out a coy, laughing rebuke.
"Uh, all right." Li Xiaoya beckoned toward his Storage Pouch in the distance, and it flew into his hand. He took out a set of clothes and slapped them against his body, dressing himself.
"Oh?" Looking at Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong suddenly exclaimed as though she had discovered a whole new continent, then reached out to touch his face.
"What is it, Senior Sister?" Li Xiaoya let her touch him, furrowing his now-hairless brows.
"Oh my, Junior Brother, your skin has become so lovely!" Zhang Hong said