Hearing her slightly jealous words, Qin Luo breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, there's still some emotion involved. If I were truly indifferent, I would really need to be constantly vigilant."
Thinking of this, and seeing her jealous yet cautious expression, afraid of offending him, Qin Luo felt a pang of unease.
After all, since getting close to Murong Liyue, every step he had taken, from the initial deliberate encounter to the later gentle trap, was meticulously planned.
But now, looking at the woman's deep affection and cautiousness, he naturally felt somewhat indebted.
Noticing Qin Luo's unusual behavior, Murong Liyue raised her head in his arms and asked softly:
"Qin Luo, is something on your mind? You can tell me."
Her eyes were filled with concern, and her hand unconsciously tugged at Qin Luo's sleeve.
Sensing her tenderness, Qin Luo sighed softly, rested his chin on the top of her head, and whispered:
"Don't worry, from now on I will never let you down."
Hearing his renewed promise, Murong Liyue paused for a moment. Then she shook her head in his arms without saying a word, simply holding him tighter.
Just as the two were quietly embracing, a notification sound from the system rang in Qin Luo's mind.
[Murong Liyue's affection level reaches 40 (Deep Affection), gaining an additional critical strike cultivation bonus: multiplied by 1000 times the cultivation level of the late-stage Soul Contract Realm.]
[The presence of other individuals has been detected. This return will be directly channeled into the host's Qi Sea, but will consume one-fifth of their spiritual energy.]
After the sound subsided, a crack several hundred feet long slowly appeared in Qin Luo's Qi Sea, tearing a huge opening in this Qi Sea universe.
Immediately afterwards, a vast and boundless spiritual energy poured out from the crack like a surging river bursting its banks. The radiance formed by the spiritual energy was dazzling, illuminating the sea of qi as if it were daytime. The spiritual energy, so dense as to be almost tangible, transformed into wisps of spiritual mist, swirling and circling around.
Qin Luo: No way, this system is such a rip-off! How can it even take kickbacks?! ???
Sensing Qin Luo's somewhat disordered aura, Murong Liyue couldn't help but recall some thoughts from yesterday, and instantly, a blush spread across her cheeks. Shyly, she buried her face even deeper into Qin Luo's embrace, not daring to make the slightest movement, appearing completely at his mercy.
"Qin Luo, I..."
"Liyue, protect me! I feel like I'm about to break through to the Soul Contract Realm!"
Qin Luo had just finished complaining about the system withholding spiritual energy and did not immediately notice the shy change in the beauty in his arms.
Sensing the ever-emerging spiritual energy in his dantian, he spoke to her and then sat cross-legged on the ground, concentrating on preparing for his breakthrough.
Murong Liyue was taken aback by his words, and her blush deepened. Luckily, Qin Luo had his eyes closed, or she would have wanted to disappear into the ground. Her heart pounded, and she couldn't calm down, her mind replaying her embarrassing thoughts from just now.
"Oh dear, how embarrassing!"
Murong Liyue took a few steps back, feeling her face burning hot. She unconsciously touched her cheeks with her hands, trying to cool the heat. Stealing a glance at Qin Luo, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, focused on his breakthrough, she breathed a slight sigh of relief when she saw that he hadn't noticed her embarrassment.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"
Murong Liyue breathed softly, trying to calm herself down. After a moment, she suppressed her shyness and watched as the spiritual energy of heaven and earth continuously gathered and hovered above Qin Luo.
Seeing the increasingly dense spiritual energy emanating from Qin Luo, she had an idea. She continuously gathered spiritual seals between her fingertips, precisely merging them into specific areas of the void under her control. Each time a spiritual seal merged, a faint light flashed in the void, connecting with the surrounding spiritual energy channels.
Once the prototype of the Spirit Gathering Array was completed, Murong Liyue unhesitatingly took out some rare and precious materials that Dean Wanxuan had given her before her departure.
Those rare and precious materials emitted a mesmerizing glow and rich spiritual energy fluctuations. Her eyes were resolute. Although she knew that using such rare and precious materials to construct a temporary spirit-gathering array was a waste of resources, she did not hesitate to throw them away so that Qin Luo could have a better chance of breaking through.
Murong Liyue used her spiritual energy to create ribbons, suspending the rare and precious materials one by one above the key nodes of the Spirit Gathering Array. As the treasures were placed, the Spirit Gathering Array shone brightly, and the originally chaotic spiritual energy was drawn in by a suction force, forming a vortex of spiritual energy centered on Qin Luo.
This powerful spiritual energy caused the surrounding space to distort slightly.
Murong Liyue looked at her work and breathed a slight sigh of relief. But she continued to conjure spirit seals, setting up spirit arrays around her...
As the spiritual energy outside continued to gather, Qin Luo's Qi Sea was also undergoing tremendous changes.
The process of absorbing spiritual energy was omitted. In the cracks in the Qi Sea universe, the extremely dense spiritual energy flowed down like a wild horse, galloping freely in the Qi Sea.
The originally calm Qi Sea was stirred up into a raging storm, with layers of spiritual energy waves colliding and merging with each other.
As this spiritual energy surged in, the entire Qi Sea began to tremble, and the spiritual energy stored up earlier was constantly emerging in the void within the Qi Sea.
When the spiritual energy in the Qi Sea reached an extreme level, a ripple emanated from the light spot at the very center of the Qi Sea.
Then, to Qin Luo's surprise, a powerful suction force erupted from the point of light, continuously drawing in spiritual energy. Infused with this energy, the point of light shone even brighter, like a star about to be born.
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