An intelligent magical creature? A high elemental spirit?
Lu Yi looked at the panel's notification, then glanced at the Snow Empress's extraordinary beauty.
Well, calling the Heavenly Snow Woman an elemental spirit certainly sounded much better than calling her a soul beast, and the classification seemed more accurate, too.
As for the Snow Empress's question, Lu Yi did not answer directly.
The cold here had truly exceeded anything he had imagined, and it felt entirely different from the chill of the Cold Spring at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
This was a cold that could almost freeze space itself.
Although Lu Yi circulated his ultimate fire to keep warm, he deliberately suppressed the flames' intensity to avoid disturbing the environment too much and affecting the Snow Empress and Octagonal.
"Snow Empress, you should start absorbing it first. No matter how good something is, it isn't yours until you've gotten it into your mouth."
The Snow Empress thought nothing of it and began working with both hands, absorbing two rods of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow at once.
As she absorbed several rods, the temperature inside the cave finally began to rise, aided by Lu Yi's continuous heating.
"Octagonal, you should start absorbing it, too. Don't worry about me."
Lu Yi gave Octagonal complete freedom so it could absorb the marrow on its own.
Meanwhile, Jiaojiao settled on Lu Yi's shoulder and watched Octagonal with envy.
"Octagonal really is lucky. Although you couldn't give it an ice-attribute martial soul to live in, Master, you've already found something perfect for strengthening it."
Despite its name, ten thousand years was merely the starting point for ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow. Accumulating the quantity and quality found in this cave could easily have taken hundreds of thousands, or even a million years.
To ice-attribute