Snowflakes drifted on the howling north wind.
Chen Ling's days remained as simple and unremarkable as ever.
Sometimes it was a little ice girl, sometimes it was angels stacked together, and sometimes it was mother and daughter together.
Well, neither of them knew they had that relationship.
The only difference was that a figure now appeared outside his window, silently watching without any intention of showing herself.
Chen Ling didn't mind. It was a familiar scene, a familiar story, with only the Ice Empress and Snow Empress trading places.
Heh heh heh. Snow Empress, you wouldn't want the Ice Empress to pass out every time, would you?
Half a month later, in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Beneath the shade of a tree, three figures—one grown and two young—sat together, chatting and laughing as they tended the charcoal fire before them.
They were Chen Ling, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
Cloudcrag Academy now had more than enough powerful people. Aside from Dugu Bo, a Level 94 Titled Douluo, every other Titled Douluo there was Level 98.
With Cloudcrag Academy's reputation as a deterrent, only Ya Li and Wang Dong'er stayed behind. After all, a healing-type Soul Master had little need to go out for training.
Everyone else had taken the students under their care out to train or hunt for Soul Rings.
The Ice Empress had taken the Shui sisters to the Far North.
She had already accepted Shui Bing'er as her disciple.
Thanks to an Immortal Herb and the almost absurd amount of resources Chen Ling had poured into her, Shui Bing'er's Martial Soul had overcome its flaws and become a true Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
In the terminology of later generations, it had gained an Ultimate Attribute.
The Ice Empress had also returned to retrieve some Spirit