As Lin Xiao had said, in about half a day, his body had fully recovered, with even the visibly injured areas now healed.
Not only that, but he also felt his internal true qi conversion had increased further.
However, Qi Tian had said he would come to find him after a day. Lin Xiao currently had no tasks for him, so after waking up, he could only sit idly in the courtyard of the disease control center.
He sat on a stone bench, staring at the flowers in the small flowerbed.
He didn't know what kind of flowers they were, but they were blooming in the middle of winter.
As he stared, he suddenly felt the world in his eyes begin to slow down. He could clearly see the path of a dewdrop falling on a leaf, and even as the dewdrop began to fall, he instinctively reached out.
As the dewdrop fell, his body instantly moved beside it. He extended a finger and caught the droplet.
Normally, when a dewdrop falls from a leaf and hits something, it would splash into countless tiny droplets.
But it was different when Ye Chen caught it with his finger.
His hand rapidly drew a circle. The dewdrop, as if stuck to his finger, did not split or scatter. It was held by his finger.
Ye Chen moved the dewdrop closer to his eyes. He stared at the droplet and suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he felt something like fire flickering between his fingers.
At first, the small flame looked like an illusion, indistinct.
In just a breath, the flame transformed into a ball of ethereal blue fire between his fingers.
The dewdrop evaporated instantly.
What kind of flame was this?
Ye Chen looked at the flame on his finger with confusion. Why did this flame feel completely devoid of heat? And where did this flame come from? Had his finger become a lighter?
"I didn't expect this."
Qi Tian's voice rang out.
"Where?"
Ye Chen's brow furrowed, and he looked around. He couldn't see Qi Tian anywhere nearby.
"Above you."
Qi Tian's voice sounded again.
Ye Chen looked up and saw a camera. He couldn't help but frown. Could that guy Qi Tian hack into their disease control center's cameras, and even equip them with microphones?!
"I said above you, directly above you."
Qi Tian's voice sounded again.
Only then did Ye Chen notice a very tiny drone directly above him.
It looked less like a drone and more like a... floating little petal.
"You've been watching me?"
Ye Chen frowned.
"Don't be silly. I have no interest in monitoring you. The experiment hasn't started yet, and there's no data on you that I need to monitor for now. I just thought you'd be recovered by now, so I came to check. That's all," Qi Tian's voice said. "Little did I know that as soon as I arrived, I'd see you had mastered 'Heart Fire'."
"Heart Fire? What is that?"
Ye Chen instinctively raised his hand, and a small flame reappeared at his fingertip.
"To put it in layman's terms, it's Samadhi True Fire," Qi Tian said. "Generally speaking, one can only master it after truly entering the God Realm."