The egg, still not fully hatched, grew warmer and more active by the day, occasionally emitting a faint humming sound that only Su Yubing seemed able to soothe with a few gentle strokes of ice qi against its shell whenever it grew restless in the middle of the night.
Rumors about the Frost and Blade pair kept spreading too, jumping from ship to ship whenever they crossed paths with other vessels making the same crossing, until by the time they were within a couple weeks of the southern continent border, there were at least three completely different exaggerated stories circulating about how Mo Yuxin had supposedly fought off an entire Blood Shadow Sect fleet single handedly while Su Yubing froze the ocean solid for several li in every direction around the ship. Neither of them bothered correcting any of it. It was more entertaining, honestly, to just let the stories keep growing on their own.
