Chapter 62 Northern Yong - Demon-Subduing Sword (Nine) I like you so much...

Then, Zhou Huaiyu's leg was indeed broken.

The scene resembles a rapidly turning page of a book. The city lord's mansion was very different back then, and the city was in a state of disrepair. There were very few people living there, not even as many as the mechanical beasts flying in the air.

But at some point, the city was placed under martial law.

Soldiers patrolled and searched the city day and night, both inside and outside, making the atmosphere tense.

Even after her leg was broken, Zhou Huaiyu remained restless. She was a girl with whimsical ideas and exceptional hands-on skills, creating many strange but useless gadgets.

She secretly prepared and opened the spiritual palace.

A rhombus-shaped magical artifact shimmering with a ghostly blue light floated out.

This magical artifact resembles a shuttle, with a ring of blue light behind it. Its main body is made of metal and crystal that shimmers with starlight, and its surface is engraved with complex serpentine runes.

Zhou Huaiyu dripped a drop of blood from his forehead into the crystal. The rhombus-shaped artifact trembled violently, and a blue ring of light spun rapidly clockwise. The silver and blue colors intertwined to form a light like a flowing galaxy, and countless blue light surfaces spread out in layers within the space.

She skillfully selected and opened it; the glossy surface paused in mid-air for a few seconds, as if loading content.

The screen unfolds, and a miniature world jumps out.

Shi Xianxue's eyes widened in astonishment.

Is this the legendary three thousand lifetimes?

Based on the original continent, Zhou Huaiyu rearranged all the countries, established her own rules and order, and built everything from scratch, brick by brick. She was very patient, and now it has become a small country with all the necessary functions.

Zhou Huaiyu had peculiar tastes, perhaps to save space, she liked to build tall buildings, stacking houses like building blocks. She didn't like horses, so she simply made a four-seater carriage with a canopy, put the little people inside, and used magic to make the carriage turn.

The little people are divided into male and female, but they have no ability to reproduce. It is all thanks to Zhou Huaiyu's innovation that they were able to assign family members. So Zhou Huaiyu sculpted a batch of tiny people based on the appearance of the little people and called them father and mother.

She also placed the little person in a pink house, added a swing, a slide, and a bamboo horse, and hung a waterwheel on a round cage. After the little person sat on it, she used magic to activate the waterwheel, and the waterwheel began to spin.

She made the little people line up to go into the cage.

"Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred... one hundred and one? Strange, why is there an extra little person?"

"How come there's an extra peach tree at Wang Xiaoer's house?"

Who built this ugly house?

Before she could figure out what was going on, Shi Yun found out about her secret correspondence with her grandfather.

Shi Yun was furious. She transferred all the servants who served her in her courtyard and ordered that no one in the mansion should speak to her, and that she should only be provided with the simplest food.

She was not yet ten years old and did not understand why her mother was so opposed to her associating with her maternal grandfather's family. Her resentment towards Shi Yun grew day by day.

She wanted to talk to her father and plead for leniency.

But Father was also very busy. He heard that a large number of demons had appeared outside the city, and recently many Taoist families had poured into the city. The city was a mixed bag, and many strange things had happened.

Zhou Huaiyu slumped into a chair, looking dejected. Now that no one could enter her courtyard, many materials had to be purchased outside the manor, so the progress of creating the small world had to be put on hold.

"Three Thousand Lifetimes, let's have a chat," she said, settling for second best.

After waiting for a while, the sound of abacus beads sliding around could be heard from the Three Thousand Worlds.

"Stop making up stories for me with the astrological chart. You've already said that the astrological chart can only calculate the predetermined trajectory and approximate time. It can't tell me every detail. I'm not your brother. I don't want to hear your clichéd stories that have no substance."

His voice, filled with exasperation, trembled even more joyfully.

Zhou Huaiyu sighed, rested her chin on her hand, and said to herself, "I really love my maternal grandfather's house, but my leg is broken, so I can't go there by myself."

"You ask why my mother was so resistant to me going to my maternal grandfather's house? My maternal grandfather said that my mother is my mother and I am me. He loves me and will not mistreat me because of my mother's situation."

“My mother is always domineering. She hates my grandfather and won’t let me get close to him. I hate my mother. She always controls me and even broke my leg. It’s so annoying. I wish she could die. I really don’t want to see her again.”

Shi Xianxue gave the little brat a disdainful look.

Forget it, let's just say she's young and doesn't understand.

As the three thousand lifetimes shrank, a gentle female voice, like a babbling brook, slowly overflowed.

"If you don't want to see her, why don't you just die?"

Shi Xianxue, who had been drowsy, suddenly perked up.

Zhou Huaiyu was used to her sharp tongue and silently fiddled with her fingers without saying a word.

“I have a solution for you. Since you like your maternal grandfather so much, why don’t you sever your mother’s relationship with her and become your maternal grandfather’s daughter?”

Zhou Huaiyu retorted angrily, "What kind of talk is that!"

"Likewise."

Zhou Huaiyu fell silent again.

The blue light surface emitted an electric-like fluctuation. As if she couldn't stand Zhou Huaiyu's stupidity, she couldn't help but speak up: "Why do you think your maternal grandfather would accept you? He has quite a few grandchildren, and you are not the most outstanding among them. Moreover, your mother was once regarded as a disgrace to the Shi family. Back then, he not only tried to kill her, but also killed your maternal grandmother in order to force her to submit. Do you think such a person would have any sincerity towards you?"

Zhou Huaiyu's pupils trembled, but she still forced a smile, "What...what could I possibly have that would make him want to scheme against me?"

Shi Xianxue was also shocked.

Mother?

She wasn't mistaken; it was her mother's voice.

"Because he discovered that you are a goddess with extremely powerful healing abilities, which can bring him and the entire Western Liang a great benefit."

"The Northern Yong City is in chaos, and there are people with ulterior motives everywhere. The only one they want to covet and plunder is you."

"In a life-or-death situation, only your mother would sacrifice herself for you, so don't let me hear you say such things again, or I'll blow up your little world."

She definitely didn't mishear!

That tone, that manner of speaking, it's definitely Mom!

Shi Xianxue was unable to move and was extremely anxious. She had just bitten her tongue when the scene before her suddenly changed.

As if a speed-up button had been pressed, time and years were accelerating. On a quiet winter night, someone set fire to the city lord's mansion. The flames were swept into the sky by the north wind, forming a majestic orange-red dragon that rushed towards the city with the momentum of devouring everything.

A vast horde of demons and cultivators broke through the city gates and stormed into the city lord's mansion.

They all share a common goal: to capture the goddess who has not yet grown up.

The scene became incredibly chaotic. Shi Xianxue fell in the corridor, was kicked into the pool, and then picked up by someone. Cultivators and demons walked side by side. She heard things like the Baixiantai and the sealing of the No Return Mountain.

The Xuan Tie Divine Beast fought the intruder to cover its young master's escape.

Just as they were about to slip into the secret passage to leave, a slender, jade-like hand reached out first, its five fingers closing and gripping the cold, black stone door.

Immediately afterwards, Shi Xianxue saw Zhang Pingping's unremarkable face again.

The corners of her lips curved in the exact same way she remembered, and even her tone of voice was exactly the same.

"I'm so sorry, this place has been discovered as well."

"You can't escape. Give me the little goddess, and I can wipe out Beiyong City for you."

In this chaos, Shi Xianxue united these three faces that had nothing in common.

Wu Xiutang's master, Zhang Qing, and the mysterious man who appeared before her were clearly unrelated, and the timing was also wrong, but Shi Xianxue's strong sixth sense told her that these people were the same person.

"Absolutely impossible." Shi Yun raised her sword and shielded her daughter behind her.

The screen flickered again at this point, and a few seconds later, Shi Yun was struck in a vital spot, fell heavily to the ground, and vomited a mouthful of blood.

Zhou Huaiyu had grown a bit older. She was breathing heavily, her eyes bright with hatred, determined to stand up and avenge her mother.

"Don't overestimate yourself. Even your mother can't beat me. Do you want to come here to die? Come with me obediently, and I'll let your mother go."

Zhou Huaiyu was young and indeed became hesitant. Just as she took a step forward, Shi Yun grabbed her hand.

She turned her head and saw her usually strong mother now weeping bitterly, her eyes filled with reluctance and apology, as if she had reached a dead end. Her voice was mournful and desperate as she kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, Ayu, it may hurt a little now, but this is the only way your mother can save you."

A bad feeling welled up in the man's heart. Just as he was about to step forward, he saw Shi Yun ruthlessly shatter Zhou Huaiyu's spiritual abode with a single palm strike.

A serpentine spirit and the Three Thousand Worlds floated out of the Spirit Palace together.

With tears in her eyes, Shi Yun cried out, "Three thousand lifetimes!"

The circular light screen of the Three Thousand Worlds began to rotate rapidly, and thousands of crystal blue dimensional light screens surrounded the mother and daughter. The complete serpentine spirit was absorbed into the Three Thousand Worlds.

Realizing what she was about to do, the man's alarm bells went off instantly. He leaped forward at lightning speed, but could only regretfully grab back a golden shadow no bigger than a fingertip.

When I looked again, the Three Thousand Worlds had already torn a crack in space and disappeared without a trace once it entered.

Shi Yun died, and even her spirit vanished completely.

The raging flames and screams in the front yard contrasted sharply with the terrifying silence here. The man stood with his back to the firelight, his brows and eyes menacingly sinister.

He was so close, so very close... If he could find even a tiny bit of his sister's spirit, he was confident he could save her.

The man lost all reason and went into a rage. Flames raged behind him, and he killed anyone he saw, slaughtering both demons and humans alike.

But when he saw Shi Yun's father, who also wanted a share of the pie but had half his arm bitten off by the demons, his mind suddenly cleared up.

We've waited so many years, what's a little longer?

The man's face was splattered with blood, making him look like a demon crawling out of hell. He half-squatted down, handed the ball of light to Shi Yun's father, and gently instructed, "Raise her well. Of course, this may take hundreds of years and generations of support. But you must know that although my physical body is dead, my spirit will not perish. I will always come back."

“If I find out that you have not taken good care of her, I will really kill your Wushan tribe to extinction.”

"no sooner said than done."

The scene ended as the man's voice faded, like an old-fashioned television set suddenly turned off, leaving Shi Xianxue's world in darkness and desolation.

She sat on the ground, lost in thought, the doubts in her mind growing larger as her mind returned to its normal state.

What exactly happened? Why did she hear her mother's voice in the three thousand lifetimes? Shi Yun... It seems that when she was on Mount No Return, the voice that stopped her when she was about to awaken her abilities was hers.

Zhou Huaiyu, Shi Huaiyu, Shi Xianxue, three thousand generations.

What exactly happened? What was she seeing?

The more Shi Xianxue thought about it, the stranger it seemed. A string in her mind seemed to be gradually snapping.

In the darkness, the formed serpentine spirit drifted over.

Shi Xianxue's eyes reflected a bright light, and she saw that it was much more complete than before, seemingly growing year by year.

Upon touching the serpentine spirit, the spirit suddenly began to expand rapidly, with light and shadow intertwining, and the girl's figure was reflected in Shi Xianxue's pupils.

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At that moment, snow began to fall outside the window, and the person on the bed stirred and woke up.

The boy's body temperature had returned to normal, so there was no need to worry about frostbite on her delicate skin. The window was whitened by the snow. He rested his chin on his hand, his long eyelashes half-closed, and he had been watching over her intently for who knows how long.

The world is so quiet when it snows.

Shi Xianxue smiled slightly, her eyes filled with affection, and met his gaze: "I like you so much."

The boy's eyes gradually widened in astonishment; for a moment, he thought everything before him was a fleeting dream.

Because he heard Shi Xianxue say that.

"Wu Xiutang, will you marry me?"

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Author's note: I'm so sorry, my darlings. I'm so grateful for your help in taking another look. I'm bowing down to you all.