Inside the secluded chamber.
Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan opened their eyes at the same time after absorbing the immortal herbs.
Both felt that they had broken through again.
"Why does breaking through feel so easy? Is this the pill-popping path?"
Xiao Xiao spoke. Back before she enrolled, she had needed to add a hundred-year soul ring to her second martial soul to raise her soul power because she had not yet reached rank 20.
Who would have thought that she would already be a rank-40 Soul Ancestor now?
Thinking about it, she really had popped plenty of pills since enrolling: two Mystic Water Pills, an Ascending Spirit Pill, a Seven Treasures Pill, plus Lu Yu's gold of life enhancement package.
There were also two thousand-year soul rings beyond her age limit and a 70,000-year soul bone, along with her own hard work and sweat. Only with all that had her rank soared to 36.
Now she had consumed another immortal herb, gaining four ranks outright and reaching rank 40.
"That's strange. Didn't the Shrek teachers say soul power gained through pills was flimsy and unstable? Why does mine feel incredibly substantial?"
"No idea. Maybe it's because you're only half as tall as everyone else, so all your soul power got compressed together."
Huo Yutong answered without thinking.
"Aaaah! Yutong, take my cauldron!"
Xiao Xiao flew into a rage and immediately summoned the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, sending it crashing toward Huo Yutong!
Blue light merely flashed in Huo Yutong's eyes, and Xiao Xiao was frozen in place inside a short little ice prison.
Huo Yutong discovered to her surprise that using the Ice Seal Technique on Xiao Xiao cost only half the usual amount because it required less ice.
"What kind of cursed skill has no windup? Break!"
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