Inside the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto, Chu Xisheng stood listlessly before an enormous arm, 120 zhang long and bristling with pale bone spikes.
His brow remained furrowed, his eyes unfocused as he recalled the scenes of the past three days.
Chu Xisheng had deliberately waited several days at Formless Divine Mountain, until Lu Luanli emerged from seclusion.
Luan Li's reaction had been strange. Though delighted at first, she had later grown somewhat cool, deliberately keeping her distance from him.
She had even refused the gift Chu Xisheng brought her.
-it was an Ice Heart Flower that grew in the very heart of the Endless Icefield, a plant rarely seen even in a thousand years.
As far as Chu Xisheng knew, Luan Li loved all kinds of beautiful flowers and plants.
She had dozens of outfits themed around different flowers-roses, lilies, plum blossoms, daffodils, peach blossoms-never wearing the same one two days in a row.
This time, Lu Luanli had plainly loved that Ice Heart Flower, yet pretended not to care about it at all.
Over the next three days, Chu Xisheng had shamelessly dragged Lu Luanli around sightseeing near Formless Divine Mountain. Yet her spirits had remained low, her expression melancholy and dispirited.
Chu Xisheng instinctively sensed a crisis.
There was something very wrong with this girl's reaction!
What secretly alarmed Chu Xisheng was that Lu Luanli had also hesitated several times, wanting to speak. The struggle, confusion, and sorrow in her eyes at those moments had been enough to make his heart ache.
Chu Xisheng had felt inexplicably panicked. Each time, before Luan Li could speak, he had changed the subject, blocking the words she wanted to say.
Fortunately, Lu Luanli's cultivation had reached a critical juncture.
She practiced dual cultivation of technique and martial arts, and was condensing