The pocket dimension had completely turned into a white world—blanketed by ice and snow, covered by gloom and silence, and filled with a raging tempest of pure yin qi.
Inside, everything was frozen.
The plants, the ground, the air... the people.
Triggered by Yin's divine consciousness, all heavenly treasures and precious herbs that contained yin qi self-detonated. Their spiritual energies dissolved into their purest essence form, the excess alone tearing apart the pocket dimension and causing its space to become unstable, inevitably producing void vortexes and shaky portals leading out to the real world.
With her hand forming a strange insignia, a sudden storm of snow enveloped her.
Lifting her right hand towards her navel, the freezing winds followed the motion.
The dissolved pure yin qi was for Yin to manipulate and control.
Freeze the members of Ming Yue Sect into solid sculptures, alive but with their fives senses shut off, so that she could peacefully harvest the results of her hard work.
Preserve the other heavenly treasures for safekeeping with millennial ice and yin flame, so that none of their essences would dissipate if they were taken out.
Use the pure yin qi to transform her perfect-grade Absolute Yin Physique into the unparalleled Primordial Yin Physique.
Absorb the leftover to start her journey on cultivating the Dao.
This was Operation Ice Age.
Her little body, with long, voluminous black hair whipping wildly against her jade-like white skin, was seated in lotus position a few inches off the ground.
She radiated a soft, milky glow like that of the Goddess Chang'e (1) in the quiet of the night. Her face was holy and serene, as if she had fallen asleep and was currently experiencing the sweetest of dreams.
Surrounded by swirling yin qi that took the form of motes of light, the little girl looked nothing like the crazy and mischievous Yin that Ye Mo knew her to be.
Now that the yin qi had been transformed to its essence, it was time for Yin to purify her fleshly body so that it could take a leap beyond the perfection offered by the Absolute Yin Physique.
'Oh boy, this is going to be itchy.'
Yin slowly gathered a mass of yin essence and when it was slightly larger than an egg, she swallowed it.
If there were any person watching her action, they would have raged at her insanity.
Death!
Pouring pure yin qi like this inside an uncultivated, fleshly body would have caused certain death even for an adult martial artist, much less a little girl. Thankfully, Yin wasn't just a normal little girl. Using her divine consciousness, she quickly separated the yin essences into threads that simultaneously washed various parts of her fleshly body.
She had not yet learned the system of cultivation in this world, but she was aware that no matter what she technique she used or method she followed, the differences wouldn't be that much in the basic or foundational level.
In some worlds and universes, it was called the Qi Condensation stage, the Awakening Realm, Mortal Realm or Houtian Realm. Whatever it may be called, this part of the cultivation journey involved the strengthening of the 'vessel', the human body, and is required for the building of a solid foundation for the so-called immortality.
It was in its core, the washing the fleshly body with the most compatible qi and letting it absorb the spiritual energy to stimulate its potential.
But eh... this part of cultivation is so dry and dull.
Why would she take the conventional path when she could take advantages of her newly rob—acquired resources?
If Yin reacquires the Primordial Yin Physique, this part of the cultivation could be skipped.
It was a cheat!
Her action right now is a cheat!
Of course, why would she spend a year or so to strengthen her body, when she could just have it impromptu, right? Who is so bored to follow this so-called rules?
Solid foundation? Needs to be slow and steady?
Ptooey!
Yin would rather finish it quick and play, all right? She had lots of things to do to reestablish her Church of Love. Besides, she had sensed some old friends who she had initially met from the Yellow Springs, but now it appeared that they had reincarnated into this world. It would be impolite and a pity not to greet them and ask for some red packets (2).
With that, Yin continued to create egg-sized pure yin essence balls and stuff them into her mouth, refining them into fine threads.
After the time it takes a tea to boil, the effects were already showing. Her jade-like skin was molting, but she persevered on, ignoring the painful sensation of ants crawling and biting through her now red skin.
After this, even if she's in a body of a midget, let's see who could manhandle her again!
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(1) Chang'e, moon goddess
(2) Red packet, monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions such as weddings, graduation or the birth of a baby. Yin is implying that she's gonna con *ahem* accept their gifts for her 'birth'/arrival back to the mortal world.