And when that moment came, her loyal knight would surely step forward at the critical instant, expose his sinister plot, and then....
Just as Wu Feng was lost in her heroic daydream of the Young Miss realizing she loved her, Su Wen calmly handed her a wet napkin and turned to Ning Tian with a smile.
"Your Young Miss really has it rough," he said lightly. "Traveling outside and still having to bring along an idiot."
Ning Tian covered her face.
Watching Wu Feng's drool nearly drip onto the table, she ground her teeth and stared daggers at her.
"Wu Feng!!!"
"Miss, he's trying to deceive you!" Wu Feng hurriedly wiped her mouth, speaking earnestly.
Pfft.....
Su Wen finally broke.
As a loyal attendant to the female lead, this one truly mastered the art of playing dumb.
"WU. FENG!!!"
Ning Tian clenched her fist, fury blazing in her eyes. "Say one more word and get out!"
"…Oh."
Wu Feng wilted like a defeated rooster, lowering her head and silently stuffing snow pork into her mouth.
"Judging by your age, you're about the same as us, right?" Ning Tian took a deep breath, barely regaining her ladylike composure as she smiled.
"Eight," Su Wen replied.
"Then… are you here in the Extreme North traveling with your elders as well?" Ning Tian brushed a few loose strands of hair behind her ear, clearly curious.
"No," Su Wen chuckled.
"I'm here to obtain a soul ring."
"A soul ring?"
Ning Tian froze for a moment.
She was also eight years old. With innate soul power of nine, she had reached her first bottleneck barely three months after awakening her martial soul—around age six.
She didn't look down on Su Wen.
But she did feel a twinge of regret.
His talent must be rather average, she thought. Even Wu Feng, with innate soul power of seven, had obtained her first soul ring last year.
"Hahaha! With that tone of yours, anyone would think you had full innate soul power!" Wu Feng finally seized the chance, her face filled with smug delight.
"So you're just a rookie."
In this world, strength was supreme.
Soul power and combat strength defined status.
Without power, everything else was empty talk.
"Simple people have simple blessings," Su Wen said calmly, gazing at Wu Feng with a strangely indulgent look.
"You.....You bastard...
!" Wu Feng's face flushed red.
"Ah, what a coincidence—you're all here."
Yan Shaozhe appeared beside the table, smiling gently at the scene.
"Shall I do the introductions?"
"No need, Uncle Yan," Su Wen replied with a nod.
"Catching soul beasts is more important. I don't have time to fool around with this silly fox."
"Hehe, so you're little Wen," said another elder in white robes, thin and refined, smiling warmly.
"Grandpa Zhu!" Ning Tian exclaimed, eyes widening in surprise.
Only then did she realize.....
The elder accompanying Su Wen… was actually the Dean of the Martial Soul Department of Shrek Academy!
Even Grandpa Zhu treated him with respect.
And yet such a figure personally accompanied a junior to the Extreme North just to obtain a soul ring?!
Something was very wrong.
But Su Wen didn't seem like the type to lie.
Then… was he a connected noble? Or did his martial soul have some special property?
Or—
His second soul ring?
Impossible.
As the Young Sect Master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, she had access to endless resources and was hailed as a once-in-a-thousand-years genius....yet she had only just broken through to Level 16 yesterday.
Ning Tian shook her head, forcefully discarding the absurd thought.
Extreme North
Blizzards raged.
The group advanced across the snowfields.
Strangely, despite the howling wind and violent snowfall, they themselves were completely unaffected.....clothes spotless, movements unhindered....as though an invisible barrier wrapped around them, isolating them from the environment.
Minus ninety degrees Celsius.
Calling it a human forbidden zone was no exaggeration.
No wonder few humans ventured into the Extreme North, preferring the Star Dou Great Forest instead.
Even Soul Saints would suffer under such extreme conditions.
"Ice Jade Scorpions?" Ning Tian asked curiously.
"Is your martial soul ice-attribute?"
Her curiosity was growing stronger.
"No," Su Wen said with a smile, shaking his head.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect party consisted of over ten people.
Besides hunting soul beasts, they were also negotiating cold crystal ore trade with An Yang City's lord, and this trip doubled as a field inspection.
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