"Mm..."
As though she had just emerged from a very, very long dream, Ling Luochеn weakly opened her eyes, only to find darkness before her.
Yet within that darkness, a silvery-white light flickered ceaselessly, like a blazing flame, bringing a little illumination to the room.
"Qianling Academy... Thousand Strike Spear... Shrek..."
Past memories resurfaced in her mind, scene after scene. Ling Luochеn regained her awareness and struggled to sit up.
"I'd advise you not to make any big movements right now. Otherwise, you might interfere with your absorption of the energy."
A familiar voice came from nearby, seemingly from the same direction as the silvery-white light. Ling Luochеn paused, then turned toward it, her beautiful eyes suddenly widening.
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged in a pile of ashes, his entire body wrapped in silvery-white flames and his skin as red as burning coals.
His previously rather plump, bloated body was now rapidly shrinking beneath the burning silvery-white flames, like fruit drying out in an oven as it lost its original moisture.
At the center of Huo Yuhao's brow was a vertical eye burning with Silver Flame. An emerald-green thread brimming with the aura of life extended from the Silver Flame Vertical Eye to the center of Ling Luochеn's brow, pouring vast quantities of pure spiritual power, life force, and even an utterly frigid power into her body.
But none of that was what caught Ling Luochеn's attention. What she truly focused on was Huo Yuhao's completely naked body, without a stitch of clothing, and the clearly visible Justin Bieber between his crossed legs.
Although Ling Luochеn was already nearly twenty, which was hardly young on the Douluo Continent, where people could marry and have children at thirteen or fourteen, her Martial Soul had given her a personality that was cold on