Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, two and a half months had passed.
Over those two and a half months, Dugu Yan often took Lan Xi and Lan Fozi to almost every corner of the imperial capital, sampling every famous and hidden delicacy.
Sometimes, Ye Lingling joined them as well.
Lan Xi's gentle serenity and Lan Fozi's lively innocence allowed Dugu Yan, who had originally been something of a spoiled young lady, to experience a different kind of joy in friendship.
They had also become good friends with Ye Lingling.
As for the Ice Empress, she remained like the guardian of an ice sculpture. Most of the time, she sat quietly in a corner of the courtyard. Even when she occasionally went out, she merely wandered casually around the vicinity of Dugu Manor.
Inside the secret chamber, however, things were entirely different.
Jiang Zhen had no distractions, devoting himself wholly to cultivation. The immense energy contained within that Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow far exceeded his expectations.
The energy of Extreme Coldness was like an inexhaustible glacial torrent, washing through, widening, and tempering his meridians and physique again and again before ultimately being refined into the purest Soul Power, which flowed endlessly into his Dual Soul Core System, where Yin-Yang complementary dual rotations had already formed a resonant cycle.
The Water Attribute Spirit Core in his lower dantian grew ever deeper and vaster, while the dual-helix ice-attribute Spirit Core in his middle dantian became increasingly solid and resplendent.
Like a binary star system in the cosmos, the two Spirit Cores drew one another in accordance with an unfathomable law, rotating in sync. Both the quality and quantity of the Soul Power they produced had long surpassed the scope of ordinary Titled Douluo.
Through day after day of