In the dim light of the secret room, Wang Donger's body, which had previously been completely silent, produced a slight but firm tremor under the stimulation of the Revival Herb's medicinal power.
Huo Yuhao's bandage-wrapped hands tightly gripped the edge of the ice coffin; because of the excessive force, blood seeped out again from the wounds that had just stopped bleeding, but he ignored it completely.
"Donger moved just now! She moved, Brother Liu Yuan, did you see it?"
Huo Yuhao's voice became sharp because of extreme excitement, even carrying a hint of a sob from surviving a disaster.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Yuan, his eyes full of unbelievable brilliance.
Liu Yuan still stood in place, hands behind his back, the fluctuations of his Dual Soul Coress gradually stabilizing. He glanced at Huo Yuhao, his tone calm without any ups and downs:
"Wait patiently. The restoration of the Law is from the inside out; her divine soul is returning to its place, and now is not yet the time for her to fully wake up."
Meanwhile, within the God King Hall of the God Realm Committee, Tang San, who was originally preparing to watch Liu Yuan's joke, suddenly stood up from the Sea God Throne.
In his deep blue eyes, which were originally filled with irony, they were now replaced by a nearly absurd shock.
"This is impossible..." There was a trace of undetectable trembling in Tang San's voice.
Through the divine force mirror, he clearly saw Wang Donger's breathing and coughing just now.
As the biological father of this body and the person who personally set up all the divine soul Seals, he knew better than anyone the level of exhaustion within Wang Donger's body.
According to his calculations, a body that had lost its main divine soul could not possibly produce an autonomous physiological reaction under any circumstances.
Tang San's heart rate instantly accelerated; he even felt a certain crisis of losing control.
He suddenly turned around, his Divine Sense instantly diving into a Divine Sense Prison deep within the Sea God Temple.
There, the core main divine soul belonging to Wang Donger, which he had previously forcibly recalled to the God Realm, should have been floating.
However, when Tang San's Divine Sense touched the center of that prison, he completely broke down.
The prison was empty; the divine soul light spot that emitted a faint butterfly shadow, which had been imprisoned there by divine force chains, had now completely vanished.
Not even a trace of residual divinity was left, as if it had never existed at all.
"No... this is impossible! He is just a mere Mortal, not even a God Officer, how could he possibly snatch a divine soul directly from my Divine Sense Prison!"
Tang San's face turned pale, and his originally holy divine force exploded uncontrollably in the hall, shattering several tables made of God Realm Ore into powder.
He could not understand this matter that violated the common sense of the God Realm.
The barrier between planes is absolute, unless someone has mastered Dimensional Laws that stand above a God King.
"Liu Yuan... just what methods did you use?" Tang San roared through gritted teeth at the circular mirror. He could feel that his painstakingly managed ten-thousand-year plan, used to control Huo Yuhao and stabilize the faith of the Lower Realm, was undergoing an irreversible collapse because of this divine soul's "jailbreak."
Bright Capital, Duke's Mansion secret room.
The cold air within the ice coffin gradually dissipated, and Wang Donger's muscles, which had become stiff because of the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence, regained their proper elasticity and temperature under the washing of the dark green medicinal liquid.
After another quarter of an hour, Wang Donger's long eyelashes trembled violently several more times.
Then, she let out a slight groan and slowly opened her eyes.
Those eyes that had lost their luster now, although still a bit dazed, once again radiated pink-blue light.
"Donger!"
Huo Yuhao could no longer control the emotions in his heart; he suddenly rushed forward and, across the edge of the ice coffin, pulled Wang Donger into his arms.
He buried his head in the crook of Wang Donger's neck, his body twitching violently as tears soaked Wang Donger's newly changed clothes.
Wang Donger was startled by Huo Yuhao's sudden movement and instinctively wanted to raise her hand to push him away, but after feeling that familiar spiritual fluctuation and aura, her stiff arms gradually softened and finally rested gently on Huo Yuhao's back.
"Yuhao... where am I?" Wang Donger's voice was extremely hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for a very long time.
She looked around at the unfamiliar secret room walls and at Liu Yuan, who stood not far away, exuding an unfathomable aura.
She rubbed her forehead, her expression carrying an extreme confusion.
In her perception, the depths of her mind were currently filled with many illusory memory fragments.
These fragments were like fallen leaves floating in a turbulent stream; though she tried hard to capture them, she found these memories to be extremely disorganized.
Some fragments were of her crying in a mist-shrouded temple, some were of a blurred majestic voice saying something to her, and others were images of her falling into an abyss in the Qiankun Love Probing Valley.
These memory fragments made her feel that these experiences truly existed, yet they also created a violent conflict with her current cognition, leaving her unable to figure out exactly what had happened.
"It's good that you're awake, it's good that you're awake." Huo Yuhao released his embrace and looked closely at Wang Donger. After confirming she wasn't an illusion, he slowly stood up.
Huo Yuhao turned to look at Liu Yuan, bent his knees, and once again bowed deeply to him.
"Brother Liu Yuan, great kindness cannot be expressed in words. If you ever have any need for me in the future, I, Huo Yuhao, will not hesitate even if it means death."
Huo Yuhao's gaze became exceptionally firm, and then he took a deep breath, remembering what Liu Yuan had said to him before.
He looked at Liu Yuan and asked solemnly: "Brother Liu Yuan, you said before that when everything was over, you would tell me the whole truth about Donger and everything I've encountered."
"Now, I want to know, what exactly happened? Why did the Great Sect Master and Second Sect Master force me to take your blood? Why did Donger's divine soul suddenly become exhausted?"
Liu Yuan heard Huo Yuhao's inquiry, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a smile full of irony.
"Do you finally want to know the truth of the matter?"
Liu Yuan did not look directly at Huo Yuhao, but slowly turned his head. Through the ceiling of the secret room, his gaze seemed to penetrate the thick layers of rock and the heavy Plane Barriers, projecting directly onto that distant God Realm.
Deep in his heart, Liu Yuan muttered coldly to himself:
Next, I am going to start the exposure.
Tang San, although I don't know how much Huo Yuhao and Wang Donger will ultimately believe after your long-term spiritual brainwashing, no matter what, the moment the truth is laid bare in the sunlight is definitely not what you want to see.
Tang San, just watch closely..."