The river of Absolute Zero hit Xueya like a tidal wave.
Lin Tian felt it through their bond, it was a shuddering impact that would have frozen a mountain solid into ice. For a heartbeat, he feared he'd killed her, that he'd passed on a force meant to destroy him.
Then her presence on the other end of the bond flexed.
It wasn't resistance. It was acceptance. The glacial Yin poured into her, and her Ice Phoenix bloodline, honed and purified, drank it in like a desert swallowing rain. The energy didn't harm her. It fed her. He felt her meridians brighten, her core pulse with a deeper, more ancient cold. A soft, silver glow enveloped her figure in the frost zone, and the violent torrent became a controlled, powerful flow.
She's stabilizing it, he realized, a wave of fierce pride cutting through his own pain. She's turning a weapon into nourishment.
