Chapter 268: Ice Heart

Hazel ultimately chose not to go stay at Angela's house. Although Li Mochen had advised her to, she preferred to remain in this house, blackened by fire and flooded with water, rather than go downstairs.

Li Mochen guessed that the girl probably didn't want to experience living under someone else's roof again, so he didn't insist.

That night, however, Li Mochen had to share a room and a bed with Hazel. It wasn't because there were no spare rooms—the second-floor cultivation room and gym could still be used, and he didn't actually need to sleep; meditating all night would suffice. The problem was that he had to prevent Hazel from burning down the relatively intact second floor as well.

Carl was right: Hazel was now a humanoid tyrannosaurus. Whenever her emotions flared even slightly, she would leave a deep crater with each step and punch a hole with each fist. Li Mochen had to keep a close watch on her.

Besides that, after Hazel fell asleep, he had to guide her magic source, helping her further adapt to her current body.

But when they were in bed together, it was still very awkward. Hazel, whose mental age might only be eleven, had no awareness of such matters. Yet in Li Mochen's eyes, the girl's figure was already curvaceous, slender and charming, as tempting as any young maiden.

If it were the former Wen Jian Tao Ran, he could have ignored it completely. But now, Li Mochen felt he was losing control; he had overestimated his self-discipline. His soul injuries had indeed been recovering relatively quickly, and the fusion with the original owner's remnant soul was progressing gratifyingly. Yet given the current situation, he was far from being able to ignore the curse of the Nine Heavens Desire Demon, Dugu Tianyi.

Thinking that the next ten or more days might have to be spent like this, Li Mochen felt despair.

Then Hazel, completely oblivious, stared at him with her big eyes.

"What are you looking at?"

Li Mochen couldn't take it anymore. "Hazel, there are no flowers growing on my face."

"But I think your face is even more beautiful than flowers, Andrei."

Hazel giggled. "Emm~ I just feel you've changed a lot, Andrei. You used to bully me all the time. But now you're like a mountain; I feel especially safe by your side. You saved my life, Andrei. You did the most incredible thing."

"People change, Hazel. Aren't you the same?"

Li Mochen smiled. "Speaking of which, I'm really curious. How did you hold on until that moment? They must have used a level 17 illusionist, right? But even that didn't break you. So Hazel, you actually saved yourself."

"That's because I kept thinking that you would find a way to save me, Andrei. I was always firm in that belief."

Li Mochen was speechless. "Don't you think that idea was too unrealistic?"

"At first, I did have doubts, and I knew it was a fantasy. But besides you, who else would care about me? My mother was also an illusionist; she taught me some self-hypnosis tricks. I forced myself to believe! But later, I knew you were really trying to save me."

Hazel spoke in a very calm tone. "My perception might be a bit special. Even when they had me sealed, I could still sense a little of what was happening outside. They thought I didn't know, but I actually heard—I knew you were at war with that man named Antonio, killing many of his people. Later, you forced the Dragon Witch Cult to revive the Calamity Flame Dragon Girl ahead of schedule. So every time the illusionist hypnotized me and Adrianna's will crushed me, I thought: Andrei has done so much for me, how could I just give up casually?"

"You've been through a lot."

Li Mochen sighed inwardly, then lovingly ruffled Hazel's hair again. "From now on, call me Mo, A-Mo, Mochen, or Chen-ge, Gege, Xiongzhang. I don't like others calling me Andrei, understand?"

"Got it. From now on, I'll call you A-Mo or Mochen."

Hazel closed her eyes and curled her delicate body slightly toward Li Mochen. She especially enjoyed this feeling of being pampered, along with the sense of security.

"From now on, we're family, right?"

"Right!"

Li Mochen smiled, setting aside all improper thoughts at that moment.

"Sleep well! You need sleep—the deeper and longer, the better. No one can hurt you by my side."

"I know."

Hazel's lips curled slightly, and a cold,凝敛 gleam flashed in her tightly shut eyes.

By her side, no one could hurt A-Mo either—this was Hazel's vow.

At that moment, Li Mochen placed his hand on Hazel's back and once again infused his true essence, guiding the flow of her magic source.

Compared to her demigod-level magic source, his current power was negligible. Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for his true essence to even penetrate the girl's body.

But Hazel trusted him completely and willingly yielded control of her magic source to him, making it possible for Li Mochen to directly help her shape her cultivation base.

Li Mochen planned to have Hazel cultivate his "Binary Profound Transformation Method." However, the binary transformation of her cultivation base would differ from his own.

The first element would be the Calamity Flame Dragon Force derived from the Calamity Flame Dragon Girl Adrianna; the second would be a cultivation base adapted from a technique called "Ice Heart Overwhelming Sea Art" from the Divine Thunder Sect.

Since the former's power was extremely strong, Hazel's future cultivation would mainly involve using the former to nourish and cultivate the latter.

This Ice Heart Overwhelming Sea Art would not only help Hazel achieve a balance of ice and fire, yin and yang within her body, calming hidden dangers, but also strengthen her primordial spirit and help her control the dragon force.

After all, the Calamity Flame Dragon Force was not originally hers. Hazel needed her own power to ensure she could always maintain control over it.

When her mastery of the Ice Heart Overwhelming Sea Art reached a certain level, she could then refine and nurture the Calamity Flame Dragon Force in reverse, truly making it her own and further growing.

As time passed, a look of amazement gradually appeared in Li Mochen's eyes.

He thought, no wonder the Calamity Flame Dragon Girl Adrianna had chosen Hazel as her rebirth egg. In terms of cultivation talent alone, Hazel was among the top tier. Besides having the same innate "Demon Bones" as Li Mochen, this girl also possessed internal organs that were extremely compatible with magical energy, even capable of triggering magical energy tides—this was known as the Source Spirit Body in the Primordial Dome Realm; Hazel herself could serve as a source of magical energy.

Moreover, her primordial spirit was also very special. It wasn't very strong among her peers, but it was exceptionally solid.

To put it plainly, one could classify other people's soul structures as quadrilaterals, while Hazel's was a triangle—a very rare talent. That was why, even the Calamity Flame Dragon Girl, without Hazel's own will collapsing, couldn't crush her soul for a time.

Undoubtedly, the Dragon Witch Cult must have used sealing techniques or similar means to temporarily suppress Hazel's talent. Additionally, there was likely a traitor within the Wiltonstein family; otherwise, anyone with a bit of experience would have detected her unusualness.

This girl was a true genius! Even without the encounter with the Calamity Flame Dragon Girl Adrianna, she had the natural aptitude to grow to the legendary realm!