The next instant, the girl froze into an ice sculpture.
Not only that, but the thawed lake surface froze over with another layer of fresh ice.
Outer courtyard, Sea God Lake Shore.
"No."
Tang Qi withdrew his hand, gazed at the still, unruffled water beneath his palm, and spoke calmly.
"The lake didn't freeze because my spiritual power acted as a medium, allowing the water and ice elements to reach a peculiar equilibrium."
"As long as no outside force interferes-"
Before he finished speaking, a second layer of ice instantly spread across the lake from the direction of Sea God Island.
"See?"
Snow Empress: "..."
As though sensing the Snow Empress's frustration, Tang Qi smiled, turned, and headed toward the dormitories.
"All right. Without Master Snow Empress's instruction, how could this wayward disciple, Tang Qi, have learned it? Come back and stand guard for me. I'm going to absorb a Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew."
"No..."
The Snow Empress emerged from his body, shrank, and turned back into that adorably blank little girl.
The little girl looked up at him, her cheeks puffed out and her expression solemn.
"This empress is dim, not stupid."
She extended a finger and tapped her lips. "Before you make a little girl work, you have to spend money feeding her."
With that, the little Snow Empress opened her mouth, tilted her head back, and pointed at it, looking at him expectantly.
Her watery blue eyes sparkled, brimming with "Give it to me, give it to me!"
Tang Qi sighed, took a stick of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow from his Storage Ring, and stuffed it straight into her mouth.
"Got it. I'll feed you."
Sigh... both a mother and a daughter.
Just before they left, the little Snow Empress suddenly looked up and tugged at