Li Dai's mindset shifted in an instant. She stopped struggling and instead focused all her attention on the golden-tailed mermaid, watching its every move without missing a single detail.
And indeed, the moment she stopped struggling, the oppressive, soul-crushing force that had weighed upon her and threatened to destroy her vanished.
As for Li Dai regaining her consciousness, the immensely powerful golden-tailed mermaid was perhaps simply too confident in itself to notice. Nor did it think twice about the pain caused by the radiance of the realm heart that had condensed Li Dai's divine soul, simply assuming that the agony rippling through its own brain was entirely normal—after all, it would have been abnormal *not* to hurt, given that the mermaid was suffering just as much as Li Dai, enduring a torment no less than hers.
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