"Yes."
Ma Xiaotao had not held much hope, yet Ling Bai actually nodded!?
Her graceful body sprang up in an instant. She rushed over and tightly seized Ling Bai's hand, squeezing so hard that his bones crackled. Her pretty face was filled with pleading and hope as she urgently asked:
"What method!? Please, tell me!"
The evil fire that had tormented her for twelve years was something even the continent's foremost Soul Master Academy had been powerless against. Ma Xiaotao was like a patient with a terminal chronic illness, one whom the nation's best hospital had already issued a critical condition notice for. Now, someone had suddenly told her that she could still be saved. How could the joy of surviving such despair not make Ma Xiaotao lose her composure?
Ling Bai laboriously pulled out his faintly reddened hand and raised two slender fingers. "I have two options. Listen to both, then choose for yourself."
"Go ahead, I'm listening!"
With Phoenix Evil Fire at stake, Ma Xiaotao could not have been more obedient.
"First, like your ancestor from ten thousand years ago, Phoenix Douluo Ma Hongjun, consume the legendary immortal herb, the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower. It will greatly enhance the Phoenix bloodline within you, and the evil power hidden within your flames will naturally be resolved."
"Isn't that..."
Ma Xiaotao seemed to deflate, her face full of speechlessness. "Shrek Academy and my teacher know about that method! The problem is that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower is an immortal herb. Such a thing belongs only in heaven and is rarely seen in the mortal world. The academy has used every connection it has over the years, yet we haven't found the slightest trace of information about it."
"That's truly unfortunate."
Ling Bai remained expressionless on the surface. He knew that the