The chaotic space rippled across the sky, gradually settling down.
A spatial passage filled with ice and snow slowly opened, and He Ao and Kaila stepped out of it.
He Ao turned back and glanced at the snowy ground on the other side of the slowly closing spatial passage.
Little Girl's father's problem had actually been very simple. At the instant the blizzard erupted, he had come into contact with the core power carried by the blizzard at its onset, and his physical body had been utterly destroyed on the spot.
Theoretically, he should have immediately been assimilated by that power and become an ice soldier servant of the Ice Snow Core.
But he had not realized that he was dead. Or rather, he had known that he was dead, and that his child would surely die as well.
So, through sheer willpower, he returned home in spiritual form. That was the "father coming home" Little Girl had known.
But he fundamentally could not resist such high-level power, so the main body of his soul had still been drawn into the Ice Snow Core, becoming one of the ice soldiers Kaila had encountered.
Yet the part of his will that wanted to protect his family had merged with the power of ice and snow and fallen into the Wooden Box, forming an Ice Snow Gemstone sensitive to the power of ice and snow.
Kaila had found the main body of his soul in the Ice Snow Core and protected his soul all this time.
That was also why the Ice Snow Gemstone could "find" Kaila. What it had located was not Kaila herself, but the main soul within the Ice Snow Gemstone on her.
And when Kaila protected that soul, some hazy thoughts related to He Ao had arisen within