Qian Wanyu descended to the bottom of the Yin-Yang Spring, circulating her spiritual power to resist the whirlpool of ice and fire as she struggled toward the ice, step by step. The ice had formed a layer about five meters thick, making it difficult to smash through by brute force. She drew her Water-Thunder Whip, intending to solve the problem with her usual direct, violent approach. A strike of Violet Heavenly Thunder blasted down, gouging a pit about a meter deep into the surface. The central whirlpool of ice and fire tilted toward the ice like a tipping scale.
She glanced at the melting ice behind her, then continued. Every strike sent considerable ripples through the whirlpool. Just as she prepared to pierce the ice with one final blow, a figure suddenly swam over.
"Ah."
"Why did you come?"
Little Fatty gestured upward, then pointed at the fiery red expanse behind her. She simply stood on the ice and slowly melted a passage wide enough to walk through.
"Go."
Qian Wanyu looked back. The swaying whirlpool had tilted toward the Fire Element Spring Eye again, seemingly without any discernible pattern.
She followed Little Fatty step by step toward the spring eye. Water radiating cold air kept flowing out of it. As soon as it passed the Ice Spring Pearl, it froze into icicles. More icy water surged in behind it, thickening the icicles little by little until they became a solid mass of ice.
Little Fatty instinctively reached out. Every patch of ice she touched melted into water.
Seeing that she intended to take the Ice Spring Pearl with her bare hand, Qian Wanyu caught her wrist. "Little Fatty, if you take it like that, neither of us will get away."
Little Fatty looked back at her in confusion, as