As the shattered ice crystals gradually dissipated between heaven and earth, Hai Bodong withdrew his aura completely and slowly opened his eyes where he sat cross-legged. The instant they opened, a dazzling blue gleam flashed through his hawklike gaze.
Hai Bodong slowly rose and clenched his fists, feeling the vast energy within him, familiar yet foreign after so many years without it. As though a knot in his heart had finally come undone, he could no longer hold back a long howl to the sky. Surging Dou Qi spread with his cry, shattering the scattered bones around him into powder.
"Hahahaha! To think that I, Hai Bodong, would live to regain my strength! Thirty years! It's been thirty years! Argh! Medusa! How I hate you!"
A chilling killing intent gradually emerged and spread with his thunderous howl. Hai Bodong's excited expression soon twisted into a savage grimace.
Hun Changqing gave Hai Bodong an odd look, then glanced at the Seven-Colored Little Snake coiled around his wrist, finding it rather amusing.
He wondered what expression Hai Bodong would wear if he tossed Queen Medusa, who had already reached Dou Zong, in front of him right now. Would he still be this cocky?
Firmly suppressing his mischievous impulse, he fed the wisp of Supreme Yin True Qi in his hand to the Seven-Colored Little Snake on his wrist and gently stroked her.
Feeling her keeper's unexpected caress, the little snake stirred from her sleep. After giving Hun Changqing a puzzled look, she noticed the wisp of Supreme Yin True Qi before her, and her eyes lit up. She swallowed it in one gulp, then narrowed her eyes contentedly and nuzzled the hand stroking her.
Having vented the frustration pent up in his heart for years, Hai Bodong seemed to sense Hun Changqing's