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The atmosphere in Private Room No. 55 was rather subdued.
Long Ma withdrew his gaze from the empty arena platform below. His brows knitted tightly as he broke the silence. "Miss, something isn't right. Xiao Yi's martial soul... it's completely different from what she showed before."
"It's not the Immortal Evergreen Vine. Could she really have twin martial souls? When we received Ou Ya's message earlier, I didn't quite believe it."
Bo Saixi sat upright in a cushioned chair, her flawless, exquisite face solemn with thought, as though something beyond her understanding troubled her.
She did not immediately respond to Long Ma. Only after a moment of silence did she speak with certainty. "They aren't twin martial souls."
Her voice was clear, cool, and assured.
Long Ma froze, then asked gravely, "But how do we explain this? It's now the Life Vine the announcer mentioned? This change..."
He pointed at the specially made soul-tool crystal display in the private room, which still showed a replay of the brief post-match information.
Bo Saixi's profound gaze pierced through the room's walls and settled on the spot where Xiao Yi had just fought, even though no one remained there.
She shook her head slightly, a trace of bewilderment she herself could not fully unravel in her voice. "I don't know exactly why, either."
"But my instincts tell me it shouldn't be as simple as twin martial souls."
This instinctive judgment came from her experience and her familiarity with Xiao Yi.
Her mind involuntarily returned to Chen Xiaojun's nearly fatal ordeal-his heart injured, his breathing stopped, his life hanging by a thread.
At that moment between life and death, if Xiao Yi truly possessed another martial soul called the "Life Vine," one that could freely wield pure