Swordbound Chronicles

Lake of a Thousand Icicles - Three.

At the legendary lake known to the Elven as the Lake of a Thousand Icicles, Suma Fen took off his clothes. He jumped in and plunged into the ice-cold lake.

He almost screamed and ran out of the lake.

He immediately adjusted his breathing and mobilized the Qi energy from his dantian (dantian is a source of energy processing, located in the stomach, near the navel). Warm air enveloped his body. When he plunged his body back into the Ice Lake, he didn't feel frozen. He began to absorb all that cold energy through his skin.

The cold energy penetrated and seeped into his bones. The chill was unbearable, but that was just the beginning. After he began to regulate his breathing and mobilize the warmth from his dantian, he slowly began to absorb the cold qi and circulate it throughout his nervous system. He was trying to break through all the dead ends in his nervous system.

He piled up the excess bone-chilling cold energy in all his dantian to strengthen the Ice Element that was the basis of