Cao De swept his hand, and surging Soul Power poured out, instantly reducing the dried corpses to ashes.
With a thought, he took a bottle out of System Space and guided the ashes into it with his Soul Power.
Supporting Bo Saixi with one hand, he passed the bottle back to her.
"Thank you," Bo Saixi said softly, holding the bottle full of ashes.
Cao De did not reply. He simply strode toward the Sea God Hall.
He already had a rough guess about those dried corpses.
A line of poetry came unbidden to his mind: once a tree toppled, the wind would snap it apart before the morning was out.
Cao De arrived before the Sea God Hall.
The stairs stretched up to the Sea God Hall at their summit, and an invisible pressure spread through the surroundings.
"Is there any way to turn off the pressure on these stairs?" Cao De asked, turning his head.
"No." Bo Saixi shook her head.
"All right, then hold on tight." Cao De took a few steps back.
He pushed off hard, instantly covering the bluestone ground beneath his feet in cracks.
Moving like lightning, Cao De bounded onto the stairs.
The moment he entered their range, the pressure surged.
Bo Saixi, who had been resting her hands on Cao De's shoulders and leaning back as far as possible, was pressed firmly against his back.
Cao De felt two soft peaks pressing into his back.
As expected of the Sea God's representative-such surging waves.
Despite that inward sigh of admiration, Cao De's feet moved swiftly.
This pressure could not hinder him in the slightest.
Bo Saixi, however, was burning with embarrassment on his back.
Feeling the pressure against her front, she tried indignantly to move farther away from Cao De.
But her