Moreover, it was bone-piercingly cold, forcing Tang Wen to eat Firebird Pills while circulating his energy as he gnawed on the icy horn.
By the time he finished one horn, Tang Wen had been frozen into a human-shaped block of ice.
The Gu King panicked and leaped about the cave, but there was nothing she could do.
Tang Wen also noticed that the Gu King had grown another size, becoming as large as a small bread roll.
"Tang Wen, what happened to you?" Cao Wuxin and Luo Xue had been worried and finally came down.
At the sight of the human icicle, they screamed and rushed over.
They hammered and pounded at it, but the ice was blue and extraordinarily hard. They could not break it at all.
Then Cao Wuxin took an electric drill from her Void Bag and began drilling, sending sparks flying.
It was having some effect. Cao Wuxin's confidence surged, and she drilled with all her might.
After a dozen minutes or so, she finally drilled a finger-thick hole.
Tang Wen immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The Gu King shrank and darted through the hole into his body.
Tang Wen's body jolted, and he felt his strength multiply.
He activated the Flood Dragon Lure, launching a furious counterattack and absorbing the ice.
He stuffed Firebird Pills into his mouth as though they cost nothing, while Cao Wuxin and Luo Xue pressed both palms against the ice and absorbed it desperately.
With all three working together, the ice finally began to melt after half an hour.
It turned into icy vapor, which the three swallowed voraciously. Tang Wen shuddered, feeling as though his dantian had expanded a little more.
"Ding-dong! Cold Marrow absorbed. Data updated."
The system responded then.
Tang Wen discovered that his