Quan Yi hadn't quite figured out the current situation, but he couldn't allow this Immortal Herb to disturb Huo Wu.
He lightly leaped in front of the flower, changing the patterns on his hand to Ultimate Wood, and grasped the flower's stem.
However, Quan Yi's touch had the opposite effect, causing the large flower to resist intensely.
But, how could a mere flower break free from Quan Yi's immense strength?
Even so, the power erupted by the flower was astonishing.
Moreover, such a powerful clash of forces didn't cause any damage to its stem.
From the resilient sensation transmitted from his hand, Quan Yi felt that even the power of an ordinary Titled Douluo wouldn't be able to harm it in the slightest.
"What a tough stem!
This flower is no ordinary object."
Although Quan Yi wanted to study it carefully, the key now was to stop its unusual movements.
Emerald light emerged from the arm grasping the large flower, and Quan Yi attempted to infiltrate it with Ultimate Wood, completely controlling the flower from the inside.
He thought that now, after the sealed state was lifted, was the best time to control it, but the moment the light of Ultimate Wood touched the flower, it erupted with golden-red light, pushing Quan Yi's Ultimate Wood back.
"You're the first to resist Ultimate Wood."
Quan Yi sighed helplessly.
Then, he said softly, "Don't be impulsive, Xiao Wu is fine, she doesn't need you to protect her yet."
When force didn't work, Quan Yi went straight for gentleness.
He fused his Mental Power with Ultimate Wood, repeatedly conveying the same thought.
Slowly, the large flower seemed to understand human speech, or perhaps it confirmed Huo Wu's condition, and actually calmed down, the golden-red light on its body gradually receding.
Even more amazing, it conveyed its apology to Quan Yi.
Although not comparable to humans, or even Soul Beasts, this Immortal Herb did possess intelligence capable of communication.
Moreover, Quan Yi also discovered Huo Wu's aura on the large flower, and there was indeed a subtle connection between it and Huo Wu.
"Did it absorb Huo Wu's scattered blood, causing this transformation?"
This situation, where an external object was connected to oneself through blood, reminded Quan Yi of a Divine Artifact recognizing its master.
A divine object recognizing its master.
This situation made the large flower even more precious.
Moreover, the vitality and energy condensed on its body were rarely seen by Quan Yi in his life. If Huo Wu consumed this Immortal Herb, she could definitely break through to Level 80 directly.
This was just the benefit at the energy level. Like other Immortal Herbs, it would definitely have different effects on the body.
Of course, how to deal with it would have to wait until Huo Wu, its owner, woke up before a decision could be made.
"However, is the condition for picking this flower really just blood?"
Quan Yi's heart was full of doubts.
However, he was right, blood alone could never make this Lovesick Heartbreak Red bloom in its true form.
The condition for picking the Lovesick Heartbreak Red was that the picker had to drip a drop of heart's blood onto the petals, and at the time of picking, the picker had to be thinking of their beloved. If there was even a hint of infidelity, they would never succeed in picking it.
Just now, when Huo Wu was burning her internal organs, when she finally burned her heart, countless boiling and scattered heart's blood Steam fell onto the petals of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red with the wind.
Heart's blood was the essence of a person, and every drop was extremely precious to them, but Huo Wu relied on her abnormal recovery power to repeatedly condense her heart.
In this process, Huo Wu's heart's blood scattered almost saturatedly everywhere, and before long, it reached the amount required for picking.
Of course, just meeting the quantity was not enough, the most important thing was the later condition.
To have a lover in one's heart, and to be sincere and devoted.
This incredibly harsh and abnormal condition was already amazing to know, and on this basis, completing this condition was even more difficult.
But what was amazing was that Huo Wu had inadvertently met these two conditions.
In other words, Huo Wu had been thinking of Quan Yi in her heart throughout the bone tempering process.
Huo Wu wasn't made of iron either. The extreme pain of flames burning her flesh, endlessly, couldn't be endured for long with willpower alone.
So, Huo Wu diverted her attention by recalling the happy times she spent with Quan Yi, to alleviate the pain.
This was a shy little secret hidden deep within her heart.
As for the most crucial sincerity, there was no need to use the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to prove it anymore.
Looking back at Huo Wu, her flesh and blood had already been burned away, leaving only her Soul Bone to endure the tempering of the Yang Spring.
But what was amazing was that the Fire Shadow behind Huo Wu still maintained its original complete human form.
When the person is there, the shadow is there; when the shadow is there, the person is there.
This scene, which defied common sense, couldn't help but make people wonder whether the person constructed the shadow, or the shadow constructed the person.
While Quan Yi was secretly marveling, he also keenly noticed that as Huo Wu's flesh gradually diminished, the corresponding parts of the shadow would become brighter. Even the torso area seemed to become more solid than other parts.
This change didn't seem to be caused by the Phoenix's Protection.
Activating a recovery skill would cause the Fire Shadow Martial Soul to glow entirely, not just specific parts.
"The destruction of the flesh will, in turn, enhance the shadow."
Quan Yi silently noted this discovery in his heart.
Regarding the Fire Shadow Martial Soul, Quan Yi believed that he had studied it very carefully and had a sufficient understanding of it. But this unfamiliar change made Quan Yi realize that the Fire Shadow still contained mysteries he didn't know about.
The tempering continued.
The Soul Bone began to repeatedly change between charred and smooth states.
But it didn't completely burn away like the flesh and blood; it stubbornly maintained the shape of the bone.
And this state had reached equilibrium.
After observing for a while, Quan Yi confirmed that Huo Wu was fine, so he walked to the opposite side, sat on the bank, soaked his feet in the Spring Water, and absorbed energy to nourish his Soul Bone while recovering his depleted Mental Power.
Noon passed slowly.
Time gradually came to around two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest part of the day.
Just as Quan Yi's depleted Sea of Consciousness recovered to half its normal level, an unusual sound erupted from Huo Wu's side.
It was the crisp sound of bones rubbing against each other.
When Quan Yi looked up at Huo Wu, he found that Huo Wu's Soul Bone was trembling violently, and the energy fluctuations were extremely obvious, as if something was brewing inside.
More than an hour passed. Even under the same high temperature, the Soul Bone no longer charred, but became whiter and more condensed, giving a peculiar sense of vitality.
When the internal energy brewed to its peak, a phoenix cry erupted from the Soul Bone.
The intense energy fluctuations stirred up ripples on the water's surface.
Quan Yi knew what this represented.
This was the evolutionary fluctuation caused when the Soul Bone crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
This meant that the Stormsmoke Phoenix Torso Bone, which was originally just over two hundred thousand years old, had successfully evolved to three hundred thousand years.
The cross-tier evolution of a Soul Bone would result in a concentrated burst of attribute increases.
Huo Wu's three-hundred-thousand-year Torso Bone released a peculiar energy, and at the same moment, a red light emerged from her chest.
Huo Wu's heart rapidly recovered at a visible rate.
"Thump, thump!"
The long-silent heartbeat sounded again. Starting from the heart, countless blood vessels extended out, beginning to reconstruct Huo Wu's flesh and blood.
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