Su Jiu slowly opened her eyes. A faint silver gleam stirred in their depths, though it was indistinct. Beside the two tiny leaves beneath the outer corner of her right eye, another had grown.
Chu Luohen stood close to Su Jiu and naturally noticed the change. To him, they did not look like three leaves, but rather three petals of some unknown flower.
He had sensed before that these green petals were growing paler. Now the change was more obvious, and he could faintly make out a translucence that leaned toward silvery white.
Su Jiu felt a strange power filling her entire body.
She clenched her hand, then opened it, opened it, then clenched it again. After repeating this several times, she gathered spiritual qi above her palm with a single thought.
Her fingers curled slightly, and the spiritual qi in her hand gathered into the shape of a sword. On closer inspection, it was none other than Purple Ultimate.
Su Jiu moved her fingers again. Like a mischievous child, the current of qi kept changing shape under her control. Finally, she settled it into the form of a beautiful flower.
"Qi Condensation into Form, a flower blooming in your palm. You've passed this lesson." Chu Mojin walked over, studied the lifelike flower in Su Jiu's hand, and nodded.
"Its form neither disperses nor wavers. Excellent indeed."
Chu Mojin stared at the flower for a while, then turned to ask her, "A Jiu, have you ever heard of 'fusion'?"
Su Jiu unconsciously began searching her memories from her previous life again, but soon shook her head. She knew quite a lot about this world, but that did not mean she knew everything.
And so, as her master, Chu Mojin explained this so-called "fusion" to her.
Chu Mojin held out one