Deep within the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds, the wind and snow grew fiercer.
Holding Xia Qingran's hand, Zhou Fan trudged through the frozen landscape with her.
More and more ice hummocks and crevasses appeared around them. Ice-blue light shone from deep within the cracks, as though something were breathing beneath the ice.
Of course, that ice-blue light wasn't some creature. It was simply spiritual energy.
This was Zhou Fan's first time seeing spiritual energy so pure that it was visible to the naked eye.
However, all of it was cold ice spiritual energy. Only people with an ice spirit body could absorb it. Anyone else who forced themselves to absorb it would only let the cold invade their internal organs, suffering a fate worse than death!
"Are you cold, Qingran?"
Zhou Fan glanced back at Xia Qingran.
She wore only an ordinary white dress, looking especially lightly clad amid the swirling wind and snow.
"Did you forget I have an ice spirit body? Being here feels as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring."
"That's good. If you get cold, you can stand behind me. I can block some of the wind for you," Zhou Fan said.
Of course he knew Xia Qingran had an ice spirit body.
But whether she was cold wasn't what truly worried him.
He was worried that something might go wrong now that she had entered such a bitterly cold place while the Xiaoyang Fruit was suppressing her ice spirit body so heavily.
"Xiaofan, you actually know how to care about girls now, and you even say such sweet things. You're making progress! You're finally not a blockhead anymore." Xia Qingran was delighted to finally see some improvement in Zhou Fan.
It certainly hadn't been easy.
"Qingran, you make it sound like I used to