Her jet-black hair cascaded like a waterfall, held loosely in place by a single wooden hairpin.
It was the same mysterious woman he had met on two previous occasions: once on Ten Thousand Laws Peak, and again during his cultivation in the Grotto Heaven.
The woman lightly tapped a jade-like finger. The surging God-Eroding Nether Fire ahead seemed to hit an invisible wall, instantly freezing in place. Then, like a gentle stream, it parted around her and Chen Qing, flowing to either side before finally dissipating into the Grotto Heaven's dense Primordial Qi.
The crisis was averted, but an even greater storm was brewing in Chen Qing's heart.
He stared intently and saw that the woman was exceptionally beautiful. She appeared to be around his age, but the casual ease with which she had just neutralized the God-Eroding Nether Fire was clearly a display of precise control only achievable by someone in the True Essence Realm!
