Zu An noticed that a well had appeared out of thin air in a vacant area. He had examined that area many times the day before, so he was certain that it wasn't there previously. He walked up to the side of the well and saw something even stranger: The water inside wasn’t frozen!3

After all, in this world of ice and snow, even the air that a normal person exhaled would become a frigid mist. A layer of icy-cold frost would appear on one’s face in just a few seconds. A bit longer, and an ordinary person would already freeze to death. Not even those with lower cultivation ranks would be able to hold on for very long. How could this well still have water that hadn’t frozen? Could it be that the Ninefoot Mirror was hidden in this well, and that the well was kept under protection by its divine force, thus preventing the water from freezing?0

Zu An reached his hand into the water to feel it, and ascertained that there was nothing strange. Then, he jumped...0