"It could even make Soul Beasts fight over it?!" After hearing Lin Xuanchen's explanation, Wang Dong'er's beautiful pink-and-blue eyes suddenly widened in disbelief. "A-Chen, just what is down there?!"
"Hehe, you'll find out soon." Lin Xuanchen kept her guessing as he took Wang Dong'er's hand and continued darting deeper.
As they descended, the surrounding currents of cold dropped another notch in temperature. Lin Xuanchen felt as though countless steel needles were burrowing into his body.
At this point, he controlled the Life Spirit Flame, forming a protective barrier around himself and Wang Dong'er.
"Twenty meters... thirty meters... forty meters... fifty meters..."
As Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er ventured farther down, the temperature of the surrounding currents was already approaching the theoretical absolute zero of the Douluo Continent.
But even approaching absolute zero was useless. Before him and his Life Spirit Flame, these cold currents were nothing but small fry!
"Plop!"
Suddenly, Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er felt their bodies lighten. The pressure around them vanished instantly, and they both tumbled into a small cave.
The cave was pitch-black inside, with no spring water anywhere, and was extremely dry. Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er could only use the light cast by the Life Spirit Flame enveloping them to see a meter or two around themselves.
With a slight shift of Lin Xuanchen's will, the Life Spirit Flame blazed brighter! In an instant, it illuminated the entire cave.
Lin Xuanchen looked up and discovered that the space was only a little over a hundred square meters, with a ceiling less than ten meters high.
Compared with the outside, the air here was so thick it had almost solidified, while the ice-attribute energy of heaven and earth was countless times more concentrated.
There were many strange ice pillars in the cave, forty-five in total. Some were large and others small, crisscrossing one another as cold air continually seeped from them.
"Wow, these..." Wang Dong'er stared at the crisscrossing pillars of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, astonishment rising within her again. The sight was even more breathtaking than the ice extreme divine crystals she had seen outside.
"This is ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, a heavenly treasure coveted by every ice-attribute Soul Master and even Soul Beast," Lin Xuanchen said with a faint smile.
"You could also say that if an ordinary ice-attribute Soul Master obtained just one pillar of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow here, his attribute could transform into ultimate ice," Lin Xuanchen continued.
"An ultimate attribute?!" Wang Dong'er was startled by his words. Of course she knew about ultimate attributes. They were stronger than ordinary attributes and allowed their wielders to fight opponents above their level!
At that thought, a trace of dejection crossed Wang Dong'er's lovely face.
"Dong'er, I have a way to give you an ultimate attribute too!" As though he knew why Wang Dong'er had suddenly become dejected, Lin Xuanchen stroked her head and smiled.
"A-Chen, you have a way to help me obtain an ultimate attribute?!" Surprise flashed through Wang Dong'er's pink-and-blue eyes.
"Of course! Besides, when have I ever lied to you?" Lin Xuanchen smiled warmly. "When the time comes, I'll forcibly raise your Light Goddess Butterfly's light attribute to the level of ultimate light."
As for how to do it, Lin Xuanchen already had a method in mind. He carried the pill formulas Xiao Yan had recorded, ranging from first-grade to ninth-grade pills.
All he needed to do was take out any fifth- or sixth-grade pill formula and modify its ingredients a little.
Wouldn't raising Wang Dong'er's Light Goddess Butterfly to the level of ultimate light be a piece of cake?
"A-Chen! I love you so much!" Hearing Lin Xuanchen's confident answer, Wang Dong'er threw herself at him in excitement, with enough force to send them both tumbling to the ground.
"That excited, huh?" Lin Xuanchen pinched Wang Dong'er's soft little cheek. "Believe me when I say I'll take you right here?"
"Mmm..." At his words, a lovely blush spread across Wang Dong'er's delicate, fair face.
Wang Dong'er could still vaguely remember how sore and weak she had felt after Lin Xuanchen had put her through her paces before. That time had lasted an entire day!
"A-Chen..." Wang Dong'er's gaze darted away, and she hardly dared meet his eyes. "It's so cold here... shouldn't we find somewhere else...?"
"Cold?" A wicked smile slowly curled Lin Xuanchen's lips. He shifted, rolling Wang Dong'er beneath him and pinning her down. "Dong'er, isn't this place perfect? Nobody will disturb us."
"Dong'er." Lin Xuanchen grinned wickedly. "Don't you think this is exciting? Inside a secluded cave... hehehe..."
"B-but..." Wang Dong'er's face was bright red as she stammered, "There's so much cold air here... what if we catch a cold...?"
"Hehe." Lin Xuanchen chuckled. "With my Life Spirit Flame here, Dong'er, you don't have to worry about the cold at all."
"A-Chen... then... then be gentle..." Wang Dong'er bit her tender pink lower lip and spoke in a soft, sweet voice.
"I will." Lin Xuanchen smiled wickedly, lowered his head, and kissed Wang Dong'er's red lips. Finally, he waved his hand, plunging the cave into darkness.
Within that darkness, a battle had silently begun, and the warmth of spring quietly spread.
"...Ten thousand words omitted here..."
Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, daylight arrived the next day.
Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er were still enjoying themselves in the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave, while over at Shrek...
"Damn it! Two grown people just vanished into thin air?! Those were two geniuses with twin martial souls!!!!" In his office, Yan Shaozhe roared, his eyes bloodshot and his breath coming like a panting bull's.
"Dean, I don't know where they went either." Du Weilun gave a helpless, bitter smile. "Those two youngsters complained that Shrek only had two toilets. They couldn't stand having over eight hundred people fight over two toilets every day, so they moved out of the dormitory early on and took a room at a hotel near the academy."
"Huff. Huff. Huff."
Yan Shaozhe panted heavily, clearly beside himself with anger. Naturally, the two youngsters he and Du Weilun were talking about were Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er.
Ever since Lin Xuanchen had taken Wang Dong'er to the Earth Dragon Sect to snatch the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow out from under its nose, there had been no word from them.
At first, Yan Shaozhe and the others had assumed the pair were cuddling at the hotel as usual and couldn't be bothered to come to the academy. But several days had passed, and not only had they failed to report to the academy, they had even checked out of their hotel room.
After all, Lin Xuanchen and Wang Dong'er's relationship was hardly a secret. Given their outstanding talent, the academy had also adopted an attitude of keeping one eye open and the other shut.
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