“A Catastrophe Class is truly a Catastrophe Class. Even if she just awakened as a Catastrophe Witch, her strength is already this formidable…”
The Mysterious Witch stood where Su Aoxue had tested his strength, looking at the “straight line” of residual frost, unable to stop herself from sighing in admiration.
“I’ve unexpectedly picked up a treasure. The mission has been completed beyond expectations.”
The Mysterious Witch sighed once more, her form gradually turning illusory until she disappeared completely.
……
On the other side, Su Aoxue hurried back home. After seeing that the house was exactly as it was when he left, he breathed a sigh of relief.
“It seems Xiao Qing hasn’t woken up yet,” he murmured.
Su Aoxue returned to his room, locked the door, and sat cross-legged on his bed.
His mind began to recall the visualization technique he had obtained from his inherited memories—the Nine Cold Meditative Thoughts.
Visualization techniques were the foundation of a Martial Artist.
Unfortunately, one could only learn more powerful visualization techniques after awakening their talent, as they needed to be used in conjunction with awakened abilities.
The visualization technique Su Aoxue practiced before was passed down to him by his father.
As he gradually entered a meditative state, a layer of extreme cold power began to float around him.
…….
“Cold… so cold. Where is this?”
Su Aoxue raised a hand to shield his eyes, barely managing to open them amidst the howling wind and snow.
He did not know where he was, but something seemed to be guiding him forward.
Braving the wind and snow, Su Aoxue walked forward slowly, one step at a time.
Gradually, he saw an Ice Castle, and a familiar feeling began to well up in his heart.
‘That castle ahead, have I seen it somewhere before?’
Su Aoxue could not quite remember where he had seen it, but by the time he snapped out of it, he was already standing beneath the towering gates of the Ice Castle.
He reached out his hands, seemingly pushing against the gates. He had already pushed them open just enough to create a small gap.
He did not even understand what was happening, but his body acted on its own, continuing to push the gates open.
As the opening grew wider, Su Aoxue felt his body undergoing a mysterious change.
He felt his body becoming heavier, yet a continuous stream of power surged within him.
In the real world, it was already late at night.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Su Aoxue’s brows were furrowed tight, as if he were experiencing immense pain.
Suddenly, Su Aoxue’s hair began to grow and turn white at a pace visible to the naked eye. Even his eyebrows were inevitably dyed snow-white.
A chill, almost physical in nature, was being continuously expelled from his body.
Gradually, everywhere the cold air reached was coated in a thin layer of frost.
During this process, Su Aoxue grew snow-white hair that fell past his shoulders. His appearance at this moment was exactly the same as his Witch Form!
Meanwhile, Su Muqing, who lived in the adjacent room, unconsciously curled up in her sleep.
“Cold, so cold…”
……
The next morning.
Su Muqing sneezed loudly.
“So… so cold. Why is it so cold today?”
Curled into a ball, Su Muqing spoke groggily.
She stumbled as she put on her clothes and sat in her wheelchair, but—
When she came out of her bedroom, Su Muqing clearly saw ice appearing in the crack of her brother’s door!
“Brother!”
Looking at the ice that had appeared out of nowhere, Su Muqing shouted in worry.
She immediately rolled her wheelchair to Su Aoxue’s door and knocked hard.
Because of her serious illness, the force of Su Muqing’s hands was not very heavy.
However, it was enough to wake Su Aoxue, who was currently in a trance inside the room.
“Xiao Qing?”
Su Aoxue opened his eyes with a slight headache.
But when he saw that the entire room was covered in a layer of frost, he was stunned.
“How did this…”
While murmuring, Su Aoxue was stunned to hear the sound of his own voice.
He immediately looked down, his azure pupils shrinking.
‘How did this happen… I clearly didn’t use my Witch power!’
While Su Aoxue was lost in thought, Su Muqing’s anxious voice came from outside the room again.
“Brother, are you still there? Are you awake, Brother?”
Hearing his sister’s restless voice, Su Aoxue immediately planned to deactivate his Witch Form to respond to her.
‘Good thing I locked the door, otherwise…’
However, he then discovered that his control over the Witch’s power within his body had weakened significantly.
That power seemed unwilling to remain calm, rushing around inside his body like flowing water.
‘No, this won’t do. I am the master of this body!’
‘Change back!’
Su Aoxue forcibly suppressed the restless Witch power inside his body.
Gradually, Su Aoxue’s form began to change.
He soon reverted to the male version of Su Aoxue.
Except…
‘Why? Why didn’t my hair change back!’
Su Aoxue looked at the snow-white hair falling over his chest, his expression stunned.
If it weren’t for the flat chest and the fact that his “little brother” had returned, he would have questioned whether he had truly returned to his original physical state.
But now was clearly not the time to worry about that.
After a moment of hesitation, Su Aoxue hurriedly shouted toward the door, “Stop knocking, watch out for your health!”
With that, he intended to open the door in this state.
Su Aoxue knew that unless his sister saw him with her own eyes, she would continue to worry.
“Brother… Your, your hair grew long, and it turned white overnight!?”
“What happened?”
When the bedroom door opened, Su Muqing covered her mouth and stared wide-eyed at Su Aoxue as he walked out.
“What do you mean ‘turned white overnight’? This is…”
Su Aoxue was stunned. His brain worked rapidly.
Noticing the frost covering the doorframe, he had a sudden stroke of inspiration. His expression turned serious.
“Actually, your brother…”
“Actually, what?”
Seeing her brother stop halfway through his sentence, Su Muqing couldn’t help but clutch her chest, a surge of fear rising within her.
She was afraid that something had really happened to her brother.
However, Su Aoxue suddenly smiled. “It seems your brother… has awakened his talent early?”
“Awakened… early? Is… is that true?” Su Muqing looked at Su Aoxue with half-belief and half-doubt.
To prove that he wasn’t lying, Su Aoxue extended a hand, and a trace of Cold Disaster power began to circulate in his palm.
A blast of cold air blew toward her, but it vanished in an instant.
“See? I didn’t lie to you!”
Fearing he would freeze his sister, Su Aoxue only revealed the Cold Disaster power for a brief moment.
Indeed, through the memory inheritance from the previous night, Su Aoxue already knew that the Witch power he possessed was called Cold Disaster.
And it seemed that the people who awakened this power were all Witches.
At least, the spiritual imprints Su Aoxue had seen in the Ice Castle all belonged to Witches.
“Is it an ice ability? It really suits your name, Brother!”
Su Muqing’s eyes turned bright and sparkling with excitement as she looked at Su Aoxue.