Chapter 84: Just Passing Through
The ice underneath Aji cracked open. The sound pulled her back into reality. Danger! She should not stay here. Aji pushed her hands against the ice before it fully broke apart, stomped her feet and leapt into the air. She had to get out of this weird icy flat with its strange sleeping man. But before she went up far, the ice and snow around her formed a chain and wrapped onto her wrist. She knew just from the contact that three tails were not enough to deal with this person...
The chain tugged on her wrist and pulled her down. Aji had no room to struggle. She crashed hard onto the icy ground, stirring up a giant puff of powdered snow and creating a fog around them.
The cold air and fine powder choked her and made her cough. She fell into the broken ice and they scraped against her skin, leaving numerous scratches.
"Aji!" Ji Ning shouted in distress.
Aji, however, did not bother responding to him. She slowly stood up in the snow and fog and eyed her surroundings...
The layer of solid ice was now completely shattered, and the person underneath had disappeared. She cautiously looked around for any signs of him. He was very powerful...
Just a most ordinary blow was enough to cause her this much damage, and she did not even get to see his face...
The powdered snow in the air was slowly falling back down. A black shadow suddenly flashed on her right side. The moment she turned her gaze to look, several chains of ice jumped out from her left side. Aji flew into the air and dodged a couple of them, but the speed of the chains far exceeded her perception.
Before she was even aware, a chain had wrapped around her waist. Aji was startled and tried to burn the chain with fox fire, but it was already too late. The chain pulled her straight out of the snowy fog and threw her against a frozen tree, then wrapped around her body multiple times like a snake.
The force of the contact was so great that she felt a pain inside her chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Aji was now securely tied onto the tree, the sweat on her face almost turning into ice from the chilling wind. She watched the fog in front of her gradually dissipate. The black robe started to come into view, and Aji could now see where he was. She bit her lip and released a drop of blood, took a deep breath, and blew a giant black fireball at him.
The fox fire was extremely hot. It melted their surroundings, and turned the snow lingering in the air into rain. Like a spring shower in the middle of the bitter cold lands.
The ice chain was also melted into water, and Aji fell to the ground. She clutched at her achy chest and looked up. With the sound of a waving sleeve, the fox fire was extinguished and a man with silver hair walked through the drizzle.
The blue pupils of his eyes were as deep and clear as the sea, but they looked colder than the temperature around them.
Aji forgot she had just fought with him. She stared at him. His features were now clearly displayed in front of her, and every step he took stirred up a wave of tsunami inside her mind. Countless images were pushed up then destroyed before she had a chance to make sense of them, leaving her with nothing to cling to...
Who was he? No one needed to answer her. With trembling lips not at all under her control, she called out his name...
"Chang... Changyi..."
He paused. Changyi walked up and looked at her with some suspicion. She had been defeated and was now covered in blood.
"Who are you?" he asked her.
So arrogant and aloof. Aji closed her eyes, suppressed all the unexplainable emotions, and calmed her mind.
Northlands, silver hair and blue eyes, powerful. The dark pattern on his black robe symbolized the prestige of his identity... The above features all pointed to the one high up in the sky...