Xiao Hua enunciated each word: "I said that from this day forth, it should be Cai Zhuoxia who repays your companionship! She must accompany you every day to watch such incomparably beautiful sunsets!"
"You... you..." Li Zongbao trembled violently, as though his breath had been torn from him. He could not even speak.
"Don't get worked up, Senior Brother Li..." Xiao Hua reached out and patted Li Zongbao's shoulder, smiling. "Don't blame your little brother for waiting until now to revive Cai Zhuoxia. It was because I feared that reviving her first would hinder your fusion with the golden core!"
"Damn it!" Li Zongbao cursed under his breath. "Are you deceiving your senior brother, or did I mishear?"
Xiao Hua raised a hand and sent Li Zongbao flying a hundred li away. His body was also bound in place, unable to move in the slightest.
Xiao Hua glanced at the baffled Li Zongbao and smiled faintly. With a wave of his left hand, the crystal coffin opened. Xiao Hua slapped his forehead, and the soul treasure Soul Bridge flew out. Green seal script descended upon it, and another three-colored rainbow bridge fell between Cai Zhuoxia's brows.
After examining it, Xiao Hua understood. Cai Zhuoxia's condition differed from Zi Ye's. Back at the Cai family, Xiao Hua had inadvertently activated the Other Shore, drawing Cai Zhuoxia's soul, which had fallen into the Nine Netherworlds, out of the sea of blood and sending it into the mysterious dark cloud. Yet without the urging of life force, a soul that had passed through the Netherworld Blood Sea could not awaken. Now, he merely needed to use the sub-brush to send life force into the mysterious dark cloud, then blow the Confucian cultivator's Innate Qi into it, setting the disrupted and solidified mysterious dark