"Why did the fire go out again?"
Huo Yuhao had just sold a batch of fish he had grilled. He walked over to another little stove, looking helpless.
The Ice Empress frowned deeply, staring in confusion at the little stove before her. Wisps of white smoke drifted from the extinguished charcoal, with a half-cooked fish resting above it.
She had already reduced the cold emanating from her hands to the bare minimum, but the feeble charcoal fire still couldn't withstand it. With a hiss, it went out.
Huo Yuhao helped her relight the charcoal and said wryly, "I told you this wasn't so simple. Keep figuring it out yourself."
With that, he went back to grilling fish.
The Ice Empress pressed her lips together, her face full of defiance.
After collecting the money, Tian Meng gloated beside her. "Ho ho ho, Bingbing, how's it going? Quite a blow to your confidence, huh?"
"Shut up," the Ice Empress said. "This empress... this young lady couldn't possibly fail at something like this!"
She resumed trying to control the cold in her hands.
Sure enough, the charcoal fire went out again.
The Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice was inherently overbearing. Moreover, throughout her hundreds of thousands of years ruling the Far North, she had always relied on sweeping, brutally powerful Soul Skills.
In pursuit of the ultimate power of ice, the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan had even abandoned its own venom. They truly had never studied fine control over cold.
Nor did she possess the meticulous powers of observation of a Soul Master with a mental attribute.
She could instantly freeze everything within a ten-li radius, but she couldn't carve an intricate work of art out of ice, such as a mechanical watch.
Huo Yuhao, however, could do it. Even the precision of every