Little Japan, Hokkaido.
The weather was ten degrees below zero.
Light snow fell from the sky, and the waves kept beating against the beach. The ground in the distance was already a vast stretch of white, and the howling cold wind swept in endlessly from the sea.
Not far from the seaside stood an inn already dyed white. On the beach outside the inn stood a girl in a down jacket, and a boy in thin long robes and trousers.
It looked extremely strange.
"Mas... Master... when are we going back to the inn? Why... why do we have to train here when it's this cold..."
Sasaki Nozomi wore a down jacket and performed some strange movements in the subzero weather. Her face looked like she was about to cry, and she puffed out her cheeks.
"Once your body can automatically give off heat. If you can be fine dressed as thinly as I am, then you'll have passed."
Lin Ao held a bottle of hot drink in his hand. He sat off to the side supervising Sasaki Nozomi, his smile full of schadenfreude.
As soon as the two of them got off the plane, the delighted Sasaki Nozomi had originally wanted to drag Lin Ao out shopping and sightseeing. In the end, Lin Ao had brought her to this remote inn without another word.
At first, Sasaki Nozomi had thought Lin Ao wanted to come over here to look at the sea first. In the end, as soon as they put their things down, she was dragged to the seaside. He called it, in fine-sounding words, that cultivation could not stop for even a single day, and had to continue every day.
And then Sasaki Nozomi began this training.
"Wuwuwuwu... bad Master! If I'd known, I wouldn't have come