"How is that possible?"
Inside the Spiritual Array in Capital City, the headquarters of White Jade Capital on the Northern Nether Continent.
Fatty Baby and Ling'er stared wide-eyed at the two corpses, which had not dissipated after the coffins were opened. Neither could quite believe it.
After all, they had spent months working together to arrive at that conclusion.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, Xiao Tian Ce's sigh rang out.
Fatty Baby and Ling'er both turned toward him, only to hear Xiao Tian Ce sigh again. "I thought there might be a pleasant surprise, but nothing has changed after all."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
At that moment, Ling'er and Fatty Baby were both utterly baffled.
Seeing their expressions, Xiao Tian Ce walked up to the coffins. He looked at the two beautiful women's bodies, which seemed merely asleep, then reached out and touched them.
The next second, the flesh of both corpses crumbled into ash. Before long, only two crystal-clear skeletons remained.
"What happened? Little Mister, why did the flesh of these two corpses turn to ash and vanish as soon as you touched them?" Fatty Baby asked in confusion.
Xiao Tian Ce did not keep them guessing. He explained directly, "Although the Spiritual Arrays on the coffins did draw Spiritual Power inside, there was no oxygen in them.
"So when we opened the coffins, the bodies showed no change. But after exposure to oxygen, all it took was a light touch to reveal their true condition."
"Oxygen? What's that?" Neither Ling'er nor Fatty Baby understood.
"Hehe, it doesn't matter if you don't know. It isn't important."
At that point, Xiao Tian Ce beckoned with his left hand, and two masses of origin power flew over to Ling'er.
"Ling'er, absorb these two masses of origin power first. Once you finish, I'm sure