The white light at his fingertips was still slowly seeping into Ma Xiaotao's body when three familiar Soul Power fluctuations suddenly spread through the ice chamber.
Sensing them, Li Changsheng turned to look to the side.
He found the Ice Empress had landed on the left, while the white-haired man Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had transformed into floated on the right. Scarlet King stood by the stone door, swishing his tail and curiously sniffing the icy chill in the air.
"Who's this woman?"
Scarlet King's gaze fell upon the woman in the red dress lying on the ice bed. Red light flickered across his scales as he asked curiously, "She's not just anyone to you, is she? Otherwise, why would you care so much?"
Li Changsheng withdrew his hand. The white light condensed into a speck in his palm before vanishing. "She's just a senior schoolmate I get along with."
"A senior schoolmate? Really?"
Scarlet King blinked his golden vertical pupils and instinctively turned to look at the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
The Ice Empress folded her arms, the corner of her mouth curling into a faintly amused smile. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm scratched his head, his gaze wandering.
Neither of them spoke, yet they seemed to be tacitly acknowledging something, leaving Scarlet King even more confused.
"It's only Evil Fire."
The Ice Empress suddenly bent over. An intensely cold aura spread with her movement, suppressing the chill of the ice bed by several degrees. "I can suppress it, but I can't cure it at the root."
Four Hundred Thousand Years of Extreme Ice was naturally the bane of Evil Fire. A jade-colored ice crystal condensed at her fingertip, and she lightly tapped it against Ma Xiaotao's brow. The unnatural flush instantly faded by more than half,