Reeling from shock, Xing Wuliang closed off the pores and openings of his body. His soul force would have to be his eyes and ears for now.

Lu Yun once more released the world of water virtue from the Water Virtue Orb and brought it down around them, isolating the trio from the strange gray fog.

A wordless Xing Wuliang restored his bodily functions.

“Just how much soul force do you have, kid?! When I use the orb, I exhaust all of mine in less than a hundred breaths!” He looked Lu Yun up and down. “Or have you eaten some other incredible treasure?”

He’d been startled by his new junior brother’s soul force when he passed on the Three Thousand Soul Daos, but to think that’d only been the tip of the...