The Far North.
It lay on the northern frontier of the Heaven Dou Empire and was known as a forbidden zone for humans, filled with powerful ice-attribute Soul Beasts and a cold that ordinary people could not withstand.
Tian Chen, however, paid it no mind and continued flying forward.
Just as he was about to pass over a deep-blue ice valley, the wind and snow suddenly froze.
They did not weaken; it was as though an invisible hand had abruptly snuffed them out. Even the howling wind congealed in the air.
At the familiar sight, Tian Chen felt no fear. He merely smiled.
"Sister Bing, stop teasing me. Your hand is really cold!" Tian Chen reached behind him and caught a hand as white as jade.
The instant he caught that hand, the chill of the Far North deflated like a punctured balloon, escaping with a soft puff.
"Aw..." A slightly disgruntled murmur sounded. The wind and snow began moving again, but now they had become cool mist, soft enough to curl around a fingertip.
Within the mist, the green-haired girl's figure fully appeared. She was about as tall as Tian Chen and stood lightly on tiptoe. Wisps of white vapor rose from the hand he held, as though it had just been pulled out of ten-thousand-year mystic ice.
"You rotten little brother, undermining me again!" The green-haired girl puffed out her cheeks, yet her fingertip secretly traced a circle in Tian Chen's palm. A strand of emerald Soul Power slipped into his sleeve like a little snake and coiled up his arm, leaving a string of rice-sized ice-crystal bells tinkling softly in its wake.
Tian Chen grimaced from the cold, but he did not let go. Instead, he clasped that bone-chilling little hand even more tightly. "Sister Bing, keep