"Would you believe me if I said she was already like this when I arrived?"
Sun Buxiao looked at Su Qian with a completely serious expression.
Su Qian glanced at Zi Yan, who lay on the ground beneath a beast hide, either unconscious or asleep, with her torn bathrobe scattered beside her. Then he looked up at Sun Buxiao without saying a word.
Sun Buxiao was helpless, too.
After Zi Yan ate all the red crystals, she fell asleep. Sun Buxiao crouched beside her, observing the changes in the energy within her body, and then...
Then Zi Yan grew bigger.
She burst straight through her little-girl-sized bathrobe, frightening Sun Dog so badly that he immediately pulled a beast hide from his Storage Ring and covered her with it. And then...
That old geezer Su Qian popped out of some unknown corner.
He stared at Sun Buxiao with a look of pained disappointment and a hint of disgust, saying nothing, just staring.
"Zi Yan is evolving right now. Anyway, let's not leave her lying here. Take her somewhere safer."
In the end, Sun Dog could only sigh helplessly and pick up Zi Yan, still wrapped in the beast hide. With Su Qian giving him meaningful looks and leading the way, he carried her back to her own dormitory.
He wondered how long this evolution would last, and how far she would grow.
"What did you see in the Magma World, Elder Sun?"
Just as Sun Dog was considering offering a needless explanation of what had happened, Su Qian chose to skip the subject entirely and ask about what he had seen.
Sun Dog: ?
"Nothing particularly special. There were just a lot of lizardmen. They're a special kind of creature that lives in magma, not magical beasts."
Since Su Qian had