The outer membrane of the dilatant fluid capsule parted with a soft, watery whisper.
Lin Xiao stepped through the threshold. That left behind the cool, refrigerated inside where Tie Shan, Land-mapper Lu-Lu. Gu Qingfeng watched in breathless silence. His physical form contacted the surrounding air of the fiery cave. Then, the blistering fourteen-hundred-degree heat sought to scorch him into a pillar of carbon. The air shone with radiant waves of pure heat fury, thick enough to ignite dry timber at twenty paces.
Instead of fighting the heat with defensive barrier magic charms or complex immortal shields, Lin Xiao simply let go of his human avatar.
His slender limbs, stitched scholar robes, and raven hair dissolved in a smooth cascade of liquid light. In less than a second, he condensed into his true, natural form. A plump, perfectly ball-shaped, semi-clear sapphire-blue Primordial Chaos Slime, roughly the size of a prize-winning honeydew melon. Two cheerful, curved white eyes curved into relaxed crescents across his front water’s skin, shimmering with warm curiosity.
Ah, Lin Xiao thought. It rolled his jelly-like mass in a small circle atop the dark rock ledge to limber up. It feels so good to stretch without a spine. That human stance was giving me phantom stance fatigue. Now then, let’s take a swim.
