"Oh, I just remembered something. When I left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Aunt Xiuxin gave me a few things and said they would be useful in this secret realm." Xiao Yi's cool voice reached everyone's ears. She knitted her brows slightly, as though recalling something.
She approached with light steps, her movements elegant and unhurried, like a lotus blooming alone in a bitter wind.
"Xiao Yi, what did my mother give you?" Chen Xiaojun asked curiously, his gaze following her.
Xiao Yi walked up to the iceheart lotus in the Premium Garden and took a small white jade bottle from inside her robes.
She gently uncapped it, and a faint, cool fragrance immediately spread through the air, refreshing everyone's spirits as it reached their noses.
"This." As Xiao Yi spoke, she carefully poured the blue liquid from the bottle into the iceheart lotus.
The instant the liquid touched the iceheart lotus, it released a bone-piercing chill, as though it could freeze the very air around it.
Just then, something astonishing happened.
The iceheart lotus suddenly blazed with light, as though countless stars were twinkling within it. Its leaves became translucent as ice and jade, covered in a layer of frost, and released an even cooler, more elegant fragrance.
Unlike its earlier freshness, this fragrance carried a profound chill, like a wind from the summit of a snowy mountain, invigorating the mind.
"What... what's happening?" Zhu Jiazhen stared at the transformation before him in astonishment, his eyes filled with disbelief.
The fragrance grew increasingly rich, making them feel as though they stood in a world of ice and snow, crystalline and transparent enough to reflect the depths of the soul and cleanse it.
"The iceheart lotus has undergone Promotion!" he exclaimed. **"It's actually become a ninth-grade earthly treasure—the