After hearing her brother's account, Luo Youhuang could now say with certainty that before she had awakened, she had never met that person. But where, then, had that sense of familiarity come from?
Then she thought of the opportunity the black-clad young man had gifted her. An indescribable emotion rose in Luo Youhuang's heart—yet even she did not know what it was.
Even Li Yan himself had never anticipated this. Luo Youhuang's soul injury had been somewhat unusual: only her fourth soul had been damaged, and after it relapsed, the injury had worsened.
Thus, after agreeing to help, Li Yan had lacked complete confidence and could only separate her soul before healing it. Yet when he later fused and overlapped it again, a Heavenly Dao rejection phenomenon had appeared.
With no better solution, Li Yan had employed the secret art of the Soul Suppressing Palace—Life-Bound Soul Suppression—to soothe Luo Youhuang's soul.
This soothing was actually only an illusion. It required the soul power Li Yan condensed to come into intimate contact with the other party, allowing her to feel as though she were within a false environment. This would free her soul from its pain and prevent Luo Youhuang's soul from instantly collapsing under unbearable agony.
However, although Life-Bound Soul Suppression had achieved the desired effect, it had also created a kind of dependent connection between Luo Youhuang's soul and Li Yan's.
More precisely, whenever Luo Youhuang saw Li Yan in reality, even if she had never met him before, she would feel a sense of closeness and security. Yet as time passed, this feeling would gradually fade away.
The texts introducing Life-Bound Soul Suppression had never specifically mentioned such a matter. Perhaps even the cultivator who had created this technique had not known of this special circumstance.
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