"Are you serious?" I asked disbelievingly.
"I'm never serious," Ryan replied. When I gave him a look, turned around and began to walk out of the cave, he got flustered. "All right, all right! Sorry! Of course I didn't mean it literaly. All you need to do is absorb the Thousand-year-old Ice Essence from this frozen pool."
"Thousand-year-old Ice Essence?" I repeated incredulously. Now that was a term I had never heard of before, apart from a few obscure comics back in the mid-2000s. I wasn't sure if they were the same thing. With all the different stories out there, you would never know. I had a suspicion that I could guess what this one was.
But this was not a cultivation story, so I doubted it would work the same way.
