The falling snow brought Yun Che and Feng Xue'er closer together. Feng Xue'er's mood also became particularly happy, because the falling snow had always been the most desired and beautiful dream for her.
"Brother Yun, the snow you made is a water-based profound skill, right?" Feng Xue'er held her cheeks with both hands and looked at him with bright eyes. This pure spirit showed all her emotions on her snowy face without any concealment. When she said this, she also expressed her curiosity and desire for this profound skill.
“Well, it’s called ‘Ice Cloud Art’. To be precise, it’s an ice-based profound art.” Yun Che answered without disguising anything, because he believed that Feng Xue’er must not have heard of the name of this profound art. However, he still added casually: “Xue’er, have you heard of this profound art?”
“No.” Feng Xue’er shook her head slightly and asked curiously, “But why do you know the ice-based profound arts? Our Phoenix bloodline can burn the most powerful Phoenix flames, but wouldn’t the power of the flame-based and the ice-based profound arts conflict? I have never heard of anyone in the sect practicing water-based profound arts. Father seemed to have said that there is no one in the entire Divine Phoenix City.”
Water and fire are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist. Even if you practice, when you activate one of the mysterious forces, the other must be suppressed to the greatest extent, otherwise the two mysterious forces will cancel each other out or even become chaotic in the mysterious veins. This is the most basic common sense of the mysterious way, so practicing another mysterious skill that is contrary to one's own attributes is useless, except for wasting energy and increasing the risk of being triggered by carelessness. The fire element in Shenhuang City is extremely active, and it is an excellent place to practice fire-based mysterious skills. The mysterious practitioners here are basically practicing fire-based mysterious skills. Except for the occasional outsider, there is no mysterious practitioner practicing water-based mysterious skills. Even if it is an outsider, because of the active fire element here, if you specialize in water-based mysterious skills, your body and mysterious veins will also experience greater or less discomfort under the influence of the environment.
Therefore, Feng Xue'er naturally had such doubts.
Yun Che said calmly: “Xue’er, do you know that the influence of our Divine Phoenix Sect is not only in the Divine Phoenix Empire? Many of our clansmen were sent to other countries when they were young, and then they hid their Phoenix bloodline and joined the more powerful and authoritative local sects or forces to obtain intelligence information, forming our sect’s intelligence network.”
Feng Xue'er opened her lips slightly, then nodded gently: "Yes, I know this. Father once told me... Brother Yun, are you the one who was sent out since you were a child?"
Feng Xue'er certainly would not doubt Yun Che's words. Because building an intelligence network was one of the things that every powerful sect had to do, and the intelligence network was even one of the lifeblood of a sect. Tianjian Villa, Xiao Sect, and even Blue Wind Profound Palace all had disciples planted in other large sects, not to mention the huge Phoenix Divine Sect.
“Yes, the place I was sent to is called Blue Wind Country, and I just returned to the sect this year.” Yun Che nodded. He answered very calmly, without any ripples. Even if it was a person with a lot of experience, it would be almost impossible to detect traces of lies from his eyes and expression, but when these words came out of his mouth, his heart and soul were severely gripped.
During these years in his two lives, he had said all kinds of concealing, fabricating, and misleading words countless times in order to achieve certain goals or to survive. He had long since cultivated himself to remain calm and composed, but this time, he was facing a girl who was purer than snow, and she also saved his life... He told such lies only to cover up and achieve his own goals, and he had no intention of hurting him at all, but the guilt and remorse in his heart were stronger than ever before.
“Blue Wind Nation…” Feng Xue’er knew this country, and also knew that it was the smallest country on the continent. She blinked her beautiful eyes and asked, “Did Brother Yun learn the Frozen Cloud Art there? Since there are ice-related profound skills there, will there be a lot of snow?”
“Yes.” Yun Che nodded: “That is a place called the Ice Extreme Snow Region. There is a thousand miles of white snow there.”
“Qianli…Bai Xue?” Feng Xue’er’s lips opened in surprise. She couldn’t imagine what kind of wonder that would be.
"More than a thousand miles, all covered with snow, and it's very thick snow. Even if the snow layer is shattered for several feet, there is still snow underneath." Yun Che smiled. He believed that the Ice and Snow Region must be a paradise for Feng Xue'er who loved snow. He described it seriously: "Because it is very cold there, the ice and snow there will never melt for ten thousand years... You see, the mountains around here are all soil and stone, but in the Ice and Snow Region, even the peaks are covered with snow and ice. The sky here is blue, but there, the sky is reflected in pure white by the thousands of miles of snow. The whole world is just a white that you can't see the edge of, and you can't tell the sky from the earth. It's so pure and quiet that you can hear the sound of your own heart beating."
“Wow…” Feng Xue’er unconsciously covered her lips with her hands, her eyes misty and hazy: “Really… is there such a place… the Ice and Snow Region… the Ice and Snow Region…”
“Not only that, although it is all ice and snow there, there are also many flowers and plants. The flowers there are all crystal-like ice flowers, and the plants and trees are all glittering with ice. There are also very beautiful ice corals and natural ice sculptures of various shapes… These are all things that cannot be seen in other places, because once you leave the Ice Pole Snow Region, these things will melt quickly. And…” Yun Che pointed at the Snow Phoenix Beast: “Xiaochan was also bred in the Ice Pole Snow Region, so its feathers are like white snow. In the entire Profound Sky Continent, there are only Snow Phoenix Beasts there. Xiaochan followed me away from there, and it must have worked hard for it.”
The Snow Phoenix Beast let out a soft cry.
Feng Xue'er was completely stunned. She felt as if she had fallen into a fantasy world that had never appeared even in her dreams. The beauty there surpassed the most beautiful paradise she had ever imagined... Even with all her knowledge, she couldn't even paint a picture of how beautiful it would be... Thousands of miles of white snow, snow-white mountains, snow-white skies, crystal trees, crystal flowers, and birds as beautiful as Xiao Baibai flying in the sky...
"The Ice and Snow Region... The Ice and Snow Region..." She whispered the name in a dreamy voice and felt as if her soul had melted.
“Xue’er, where do you want to go?” Yun Che asked a question whose answer he could be sure of just by looking at her expression.
“Yes!” Feng Xue’er nodded vigorously, her snowy face dotted with a little excitement: “It turns out that there are such beautiful places in this world. I really want to go there. If I can reach such a world and live there… wow~~ how happy it would be.”
“But…” Feng Xue’er’s eyes dimmed again. “My father said that I cannot leave Divine Phoenix City before I am twenty years old. My father is always so busy and has not left Divine Phoenix City for many, many years. Even if I am twenty years old, my father may not have the time to take me there…”
“Then I’ll take you there.” Yun Che blurted out without even thinking.
“Ah…” Feng Xue’er exclaimed softly, revealing a deep surprise that surprised Yun Che: “Is it true? Are you really willing to take me with you?”
She believed in his words so completely and was so defenseless against him. On the contrary, because of the snow and the scene he described, she developed a little bit of girlish admiration for him. A complex but warm emotion surged in Yun Che's heart, and he nodded vigorously: "Of course I am willing. When you can leave Shenhuang City, if you are still willing to recognize me as 'Brother Yun', as long as you want, I will definitely take you to the Ice Pole Snow Region. I came to the Shenhuang Empire from there, and I know very well how to get back there. If we leave from Shenhuang City quickly, we can arrive in half a month."
“That’s great!” The girl exclaimed in joy. The slight disappointment she had felt before had completely vanished. She looked at Yun Che and smiled as happily as a beautiful doll: “Brother Yun, thank you. You are so nice… I am really happy to have met you.”
"I am the luckiest to be able to watch the snow with a beautiful girl like Xue'er." Yun Che said sincerely. But he didn't know if this promise would ever come true... If she was still willing at that time, then, even if there were many obstacles, he would do his best to do it for her... Maybe it was to make up for the guilt in his heart, or maybe it was because he longed to be with her from the bottom of his heart.
“Hehe, then it’s a deal. When I turn 20, Brother Yun wants me to go to the Ice and Snow Region to see the snow falling for thousands of miles… I must not lie or go back on my word.” Feng Xue’erxin said with a smile.
“Yes!” Yun Che nodded and extended his little finger to Feng Xue’er: “Let’s pinky promise.”
“Ah?” Feng Xue’er looked at Yun Che’s outstretched little finger, then looked at her own fingers, with a puzzled expression on her face: “What does pinky… mean?”
Yun Che shook his fingers lightly and said, “We will clasp our little fingers together to prove that what we said must count and cannot be changed no matter how many years have passed.”
“Well…” Feng Xue’er timidly stretched out her jade-like fingers and whispered, “As long as Brother Yun doesn’t forget, I will definitely keep my word, but…but…”
However, her body, even her little finger, had never been touched by a man. Because in Feng Hengkong's eyes, every inch of her skin was the most precious treasure of the Phoenix Divine Sect. Anyone touching her was an unforgivable defilement, not even him as a father. In fact, if he had to choose between the Phoenix Divine Sect and Feng Xue'er, he would choose Feng Xue'er without hesitation.
The reason behind this was not simply a father’s extreme love for his only daughter. The more important reason was that only a handful of people in the entire Divine Phoenix Sect knew about it… Apart from the Divine Phoenix Sect, the Four Sacred Grounds also got the news from somewhere and had already noticed Feng Xue’er. This also made Feng Hengkong’s protection of Feng Xue’er even more cautious to the point that it was incomprehensible.
If he knew that a man was sitting so close to Feng Xue'er, chatting and laughing... and even wanted to interlock her little finger, not to mention that this man was a "bastard" who was to be eliminated, even if he was his own son, he would slap him into a pulp without hesitation in his rage.
“Oh, I see.” Yun Che seemed to have just reacted: “Your father doesn’t allow anyone to touch you. You are afraid that your father will blame you, right?”
“Well…” Feng Xue’er nodded gently. “I can’t disobey Father’s words. I’m even more afraid… Father will be angry with you after he finds out. Just last year, Twelfth Brother accidentally touched my shoulder and Father saw it. Father was so angry that he broke Twelfth Brother’s wrist and even threatened to kill him… I pleaded for Twelfth Brother, and Father usually obeyed me, but he was really angry and locked Twelfth Brother up for a full six months… It’s all my fault. I hurt Twelfth Brother. I don’t want Brother Yun to be hurt because of me.”
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