Chapter 346, Chapter 140
“Unya!”
Verafia quickly shook off the boy’s wrist she was holding and jumped back.
“Sister, Ig’s life level is increasing, is he about to awaken?”
Ophilia was initially confused by the girl’s actions, but Flan’s voice, which followed, made her realize.
The Ice Dragon Girl quickly knelt beside him, her frost-blue eyes gazing at the human boy. The dormant Dou Qi within him flowed smoothly again, and golden light shimmered. Following this was the boy’s gradually perfected life aura after the increase. Clearly, compared to being stuck at the threshold just now, Ig could now move towards the Golden level without any obstruction.
“So, Ig should have already been promoted when he woke up? But if that’s the case, why did that phoenix run so far away all of a sudden?”
Ophilia couldn’t help but tilt her little face and blink with some confusion. Verafia, standing at a distance, hugged her slender hands across her chest, her scorching golden eyes looking up. The urgency and momentary surprise that had appeared on her little face just now were hidden by her efforts, making her appear relaxed and indifferent as usual.
However, when she saw Ophilia’s gaze, a trace of annoyance appeared on the girl’s little face, and she glared fiercely with her big eyes, warning her not to be ungrateful.
“Is this phoenix embarrassed… Pfft, she acts so fierce to others, but in reality, she’s just an idiot.”
Ophilia quickly turned her head, but a amused expression couldn’t help but appear on her tilted little face.
The girl suddenly blinked her long eyelashes again, and a thoughtful look appeared in her beautiful frost-blue gem-like eyes. She thought of something quite serious: “Hmm… in human terms, isn’t this phoenix completely tsundere?”
Ig’s fingers suddenly trembled slightly. Ophilia quickly shifted her gaze. At this moment, the boy’s eyelids moved slightly, and then his pupils slowly opened.
Ophilia couldn’t help but be stunned. In the instant Ig’s pupils opened, she seemed to see an endless starry sky within them.
But this seemed to be just an illusion. The boy’s pupils once again revealed a calm, lake-like azure blue.
At this moment, the surging aura around Ig finally stabilized completely, and a golden luster appeared. It was clear that he had been promoted from Silver.
“Ig, you’re awake!” Ophilia waved her little head, not bothering with anything else. She grabbed the boy’s arm with her little hand and called out with considerable joy.
Ig’s eyes were still blurry when he opened them, and the scene of falling into the sea of flames still lingered in his mind. However, when he saw the girl beside him with a joyful expression on her little face, he remembered that he had returned to the real world and couldn’t help but smile.
“Little Fei.”
“What I saw in that situation was just an illusion,” Ig told himself.
But another voice echoed in his heart, “This is true destiny.”
“Destiny, huh…”
“Hmph, you guy, you’re finally finished!”
A crisp girl’s voice came. It was as if it was what he had always expected, but also something he feared and didn’t want to see…
Ig looked up. The girl standing a short distance away raised her scorching golden eyes, hugged her chest with both hands, and walked towards him. “It seems my magic potion worked quite well, instantly promoting you to Gold!”
Verafia. The girl who had been inseparable from him for a long time.
Ig had thought that opening his eyes and seeing her again would be a joyous occasion, at least making him feel happy from the bottom of his heart.
But as he truly looked at her beautiful little face and her slightly raised golden eyes, the scene from that nightmare reappeared before him.
It was like a sharp dagger, tearing through his chest. The smile on Ig’s face became stiff and uncontrollable: “Thank you, young lady.”
The words came from Ig’s mouth. Although he was extremely reluctant to treat the girl this way, Ig couldn’t help but feel reluctance and coldness even from his words.
Verafia’s steps paused slightly, and her eyes looked at him, as if she didn’t understand if the boy’s head was dizzy.
“Oh no, what did I do!”
The sorrow and grief that had clouded his thoughts before seemed to be just a momentary loss of control. Ig now realized that he didn’t know what was happening to him, and it seemed he had actually taken that matter seriously.
Looking at the girl’s eyes now, he felt his whole body tremble uncontrollably, breaking out in a cold sweat.
For this Miss Phoenix, who had never been wronged, wasn’t his hurtful attitude like that just asking for trouble! Moreover, let alone such an illusion, even if this young lady really had such thoughts, why did he act like that just now? He probably hadn’t woken up yet!
Just as Ig was about to apologize, Flan’s light footsteps also landed beside him.
The Blood Race girl sized Ig up and couldn’t help but utter a slightly surprised sound: “Ig, your strength doesn’t seem to be just recently broken through to Gold… mid-stage, no, this energy fluctuation can already be considered late-stage, and it’s still increasing!”
Hearing Flan’s voice, Ig lowered his head and clenched his palm slightly. Dou Qi flowed under the pure golden brilliance, followed by a sense of powerful strength, even giving him the illusion that he could punch through an entire wall.
The Gold level, in most places, could be considered high-level combat power. At that time, Verafia’s disguised mage identity only showed a strength of Gold, and she had already received a lot of admiration and respect.
And it’s not just that—
Ig raised his azure blue eyes: “Yes, this power is still growing… and I think my physical body and constitution have also made a lot of progress.”
“Isn’t that to be expected!”
The girl’s crisp voice sounded again. Ig saw Verafia walk up to him, her luxurious golden eyes on her snowy little face showing a slight dissatisfaction.
Verafia tilted her chin slightly and snorted, “I already said that a small bottle of Dragon Blood is considered a treasure for you humans, let alone wasting so many materials of mine, and even so much of my… energy. Of course, it would have such an effect on a little human like you.”
“Moreover, in my opinion, your previous cultivation at Silver was not entirely in vain. It was just that you were hindered by the barrier of life level. Now that you have advanced to Gold, you have easily reached the late stage or even the peak level!”
The girl stopped in front of him and observed him with her golden eyes, saying.
“Is that so…?”
Ig was surprised. He knew that for most cultivators, it would take years to advance from early Gold to peak, but from the girl’s words, it was so easy?
“Then what else do you want!”
Verafia glared at the boy with her big eyes, “Besides, you absorbed more of Ophilia’s Dragon Blood than I expected, so it’s natural for you to feel the improvement in strength and physique.”
“In my estimation, your current physique, even without using Dou Qi, can completely withstand the slashing of ordinary swords… Hmph, really, I went to so much trouble for you, you darn guy, and you actually gave me that kind of expression just now!”
After saying that, Verafia pouted her little face and complained with great dissatisfaction.
