"Yes." Huang Xiao nodded. "Without those Silver Keys, I might still have been somewhat reluctant to leave behind the spirit-gathering effect in the Extreme Cold Mountains. But now that I think about it, there won't be any need for that going forward."
"That place has become something of a chicken rib to you-little meat to eat, yet a pity to throw away. Your strength has already outgrown it, so it's no longer suitable for your cultivation," Ren Dongju said.
"Senior, the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth was one reason my strength improved so much, but I also feel that the cold there was crucial," Huang Xiao said.
"The cold?" Ren Dongju thought for a moment. "That really depends on the person. Some people freeze to death outright. Others desperately resist the cold and exhaust their internal power. They survive by sheer luck, but their strength doesn't improve at all."
"How is that possible?" Huang Xiao asked in some surprise. "The change in me was very obvious."
"It varies from person to person," Ren Dongju said. "You were probably circulating your cultivation method the whole time you were resisting the cold. Perhaps you also had some special method or a little luck. Over more than a hundred years of constant resistance, that improvement happened without your noticing. Once you recovered, all that accumulation proved astonishing. Still, now that you've mentioned the cold, it does bear some similarity to why I summoned you this time."
"Senior Ren, may I ask what this is about?" Huang Xiao asked.
Huang Xiao felt that Ren Dongju was unlikely to have summoned him specifically just because he had returned alive. There had to be some other important matter.
"It concerns a place in a Mysterious Land-well, it's also called a Spirit Land-and the available places