[Ding! System detection: the Tool Martial Soul Little Iron Hammer is perfectly absorbing the Silver-Scaled Ganoderma and has automatically entered a state of deep evolutionary dormancy.] [Estimated dormancy period: seventy-two hours.] [Once its evolution is complete, Little Iron Hammer will break through the shackles of its original Tool Martial Soul and gain an entirely new ultimate form and exclusive abilities.]
So it was a dormancy mechanism required for evolution.
Outside.
All the light had withdrawn into Tang Tian's body.
He slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
Dugu Yan, who had been watching him anxiously the entire time, hurried over and asked:
"What happened? Did it work?"
Tang Tian waved a hand casually:
"It's fine. Everything went smoothly. That fellow just absorbed it so fiercely that it went straight into evolutionary dormancy."
"It'll probably need two or three days of sleep before it wakes up."
Dugu Yan paused, then nodded thoughtfully.
She did not press him for details about his Martial Soul's dormancy.
But as she looked at Tang Tian, her gaze could not help flickering slightly in the firelight.
Five levels in a row, a Martial Soul taking form, evolution through an Immortal Herb...
Just how many veils of mystery still shrouded this boy, who was several years younger than her?
The night passed without further conversation.
Early the next morning, the two continued on their way, treading through the morning dew.
Freed of their heavy mental burdens, they traveled much faster.
By noon, they caught sight of Heaven Dou City's tall, imposing gray walls.
They walked along the bustling streets, listening to the cries of the vendors around them and the rumble of carriage wheels over blue flagstones.
Tang Tian drew a deep breath and actually felt as though a lifetime had