The Ice Spirit Secret Grounds.
An endless ice plain stretched before their eyes.
The sky was a somber gray, with no sun or clouds, like a vast ice crystal frozen in an eternal winter.
A thick layer of ice lay beneath their feet, with frozen soil faintly visible below its surface.
An extreme chill permeated the air.
This was not simply the cold of low temperatures.
It was a cold that seemed to freeze even the soul, like wearing soaking-wet clothes in the depths of winter, wanting to take them off but being unable to, forced to endure a chill that reached into your very soul.
"So these are the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds? It's freezing." Zhou Fan involuntarily hunched his shoulders.
He considered himself fairly resistant to the cold.
Yet here, he was still shivering.
"Xiaofan, are you all right? Can you handle it?" Xia Qingran's voice came from beside him.
Compared to the trembling Zhou Fan, Xia Qingran looked perfectly composed.
Even though she wore nothing but an ordinary dress, she felt no chill at all.
After all, she possessed an ice spirit body. Cold was the last thing she feared.
"I'm fine. I can handle it," Zhou Fan said.
He circulated the spiritual energy in his body. At that moment, the Cold Ice Pearl Qin Bai had given him began to take effect. A faint warmth spread from it, slowly converting the cold invading his body into spiritual energy he could absorb.
Although the process was slow, it at least allowed him to move normally rather than freeze into an ice sculpture on the spot.
He had come here to absorb the icy spiritual energy, convert it into his own, and advance his cultivation.
Without the Cold Ice Pearl, absorbing it would have been difficult. He would