"So then... should I be thanking you instead?" Shaking out his arm, Jiu Ming bared his teeth and tilted his head at the smiling Yakumo Yukari before adding, with remarkable brevity, "Not a chance!"
"Aww? Little shopkeeper, your ingratitude really breaks my heart... I'll kill you, you know!"
"Bullshit." Jiu Ming did not believe Yakumo Yukari's words at all. What concerned him more now was his left hand... Well, there had not been any major changes overall, yet it had changed in a certain sense.
The change was plain to see. With a wave of his hand, and under his deliberate control, a trail of ice crystals appeared where his arm swept through.
"So, little shopkeeper, what is your understanding of ice?" After catching an ice crystal, Yakumo Yukari suddenly asked. Its temperature was nearly identical to that of an ordinary ice crystal, yet even after landing in her warm palm, it showed no sign of melting.
"Mm... Want me to turn on a computer and Baidu it?"
"Be serious." Yakumo Yukari chuckled and tapped Jiu Ming on the head. "We're talking business."
"Fine, fine. I think the colder, the better? Once the temperature gets low enough, it can basically defy heaven, right?"
"Mm, that's the normal way of understanding it." Yakumo Yukari nodded. "Though I don't know much about the power of ice, as the Sage of Youkai, I naturally know more than most. Low temperature is only one characteristic of ice. Take last night's cold air, for instance—what do you think of it, little shopkeeper?"
Jiu Ming raised his brows. He really had no desire to experience that frozen feeling from yesterday again. Thinking back carefully... "It seemed that the cold air's temperature wasn't particularly low. It definitely wasn't below minus fifty degrees. With my current abilities, that