But thinking it over carefully, he had indeed said at the outset that he was the one who had saved her.
After this healing session, the two of them finally seemed able to speak calmly. Su Jiu asked, "Senior, what exactly is this place?"
"The Lifeless Ice Cavern. A sealed place." Understanding dawned on Su Jiu. It was just as she had suspected.
"So this is the only area we can move around in?"
The man gave her a half-smile. "What else? If I could leave, I would have left this damned place long ago."
"I didn't see you when I first came out."
"Did you know that we demon cultivators have an innate ability called phasing?" The man seemed quite willing to tell her about his ability.
Then again, even if she knew, there was nothing she could do to him.
Phasing allowed one to merge one's physical body with the surrounding objects. The higher one's Cultivation Level, the better one could hide.
Su Jiu glanced again at the ice sculptures she had seen when she emerged and could not help asking.
"Did you make all these ice sculptures?"
"Several thousand years is far too lonely and far too long. I had to do something to pass the time." The man did not deny it.
Su Jiu's hand paused against the ice bed. "Don't you need to cultivate?"
"Cultivate? That's something you humans do."
Su Jiu's pupils contracted at that, and a suspicion began to form in her mind. "Senior, are you...?"
"Haven't you already guessed, little girl?" He narrowed his long, slender eyes and withdrew the hand he had been using to heal Su Jiu. Then he reclined seductively on the ice bed, watching her.
His gaze shifted, and something seemed to occur to him. A smile curled