"Senior brother, what are you looking at?" Wang Xi was holding a book and staring blankly at the big tree beside him.
They've been here for a while.
This place is covered in snow all year round. It is located far away in the territory of the Tantric sect. To outsiders, this area is a dead zone.
Others cannot enter, but Yang Wennan is cursed by the Soul Clan, which allows him to bring her in.
A white phoenix and a three-legged crow, entirely black, rested on his hand.
The phoenix would occasionally transform into human form, a stunningly beautiful man, pure white except for a touch of blood between his lips, making him look like an elf.
The man didn't speak, but occasionally, when he saw them asleep, he would sit in front of the tent like a night watchman.
The three-legged golden crow in the tree was even stranger. It resembled her junior brother's golden crow, but it had none of that sinister aura.
It hadn't come down since it climbed that tree. The three-legged golden crow's back was covered with a thick layer of snow. It would only occasionally shake off the snowflakes, and then its calm eyes would stare at the frozen ice surface beside the tree.
Today is an unusual day.
Phoenix transformed back into human form and sat down next to Yang Wennan. The crow flew down from the tree and landed on Phoenix's shoulder, looking like a domesticated parrot.
When Wang Xi woke up, she saw that they were all looking at the lake.
What's in the lake?
They've been here for three months.
When Phoenix first sat by the tent, she thought a fierce battle was about to break out, but it didn't.
Is it a fish?
"Almost everyone's here." Phoenix sighed and collapsed onto the snow.
The crow, as if its soul had been ripped away, fell to the ground along with the phoenix.
Wang Xi: ...
"Senior brother," Wang Xi nudged her senior brother uncertainly, "He... he's talking? He's talking to me? This phoenix can talk? He can talk?"
"Yes." Yang Wennan nodded.
Wang Xi's personality remains the same as before, but most of the time she is quiet.
This snowfield is covered with snow sculptures left behind by her extravagance.
Row upon row, like subjects.
Every day, she would practice swordsmanship and archery, or take her sword to carve ice.
He, on the other hand, was deducing and calculating the remaining fortune of this world.
This world will one day be destroyed by the hands of fate.
These were the words spoken by the old priest Giarau when he saw him off.
He carried the burden of the entire Soul Clan on his shoulders, and his purpose in living was to kill Qi Yun.
Just like these two demon race figures.
"How much longer?" Bai Yu grabbed a tree beside him. "I saw her go up there, but she can't remember what she went up there for."
“Someone will remind us,” Yang Wennan said unhurriedly. “Back then, she included herself in the equation, so there was nothing we could do to help her.”
Bai Yu propped himself up from the ground, and the golden crow, like a roly-poly toy, flapped its wings and perched on his head.
Bai Yu showed no dissatisfaction. He looked at the stagnant pool in front of him, then at the confident Yang Wennan, and asked, "What is the deal with the Soul Clan?"
"I'm the only one who survived." Yang Wennan gave a bitter smile. "It's really that simple. You don't believe it, and even when I woke up, I didn't believe it myself."
Bai Yu rubbed his temples, then reached out and caught the Golden Crow. He passed it to Yang Wennan, saying, "Let's see! When will Qingling return to normal? I'm tired of sitting here, give it to him!"
The three-legged golden crow sensed discomfort, struggled a few times in Yang Wennan's hand, then continued to gaze at the frozen lake surface, "You said..."
Yang Wennan looked at the lake and wondered, "Will she come out of there, like she did in the beginning?"
"I just want Qingling to recover. Only when Qingling wakes up can she wake up. That's what she promised me."
“Maybe…” Yang Wennan said uncertainly, “I mean, we’ve tried many times, maybe it won’t work.”
Bai Yu looked at him without saying anything.
Yang Wennan added, "My thirteen deaths weren't in vain. I was actually captured very few times; most of the time, I had no choice but to sink into the ground after realizing that things were going badly."
“You guys…” Wang Xi grabbed a handful of snow, rubbed it in her hands, and then rubbed it on her face.
The snow here is very clean, and you rarely see anyone. You could even eat it directly without any problems.
"Can you tell me something?" Wang Xi asked cautiously, raising her hand to swear, "I promise I won't tell anyone, or may I be struck by lightning—"
boom!
A streak of purple light swept across the sky, leaving behind a bluish-purple glow, like a laser beam sweeping across the heavens. Afterward, only a few trails remained in the sky.
"I...I really didn't lie!"
"I know." Bai Yu's cold eyes swept over her. "There are no innocent people here."
Wang Xi: ...
She seemed to remember something. "There's a legend in our area that scared me at first, but then my brother helped me investigate. It says that I resemble an ancestor who opened the gate and let something into the city, which led to the downfall of the Qianyan Kingdom."
However, it was the direct line that was wiped out. My father's branch, which survived under the name of the Thousand Swallow Clan, was later able to rebuild the country with the help of my master.
"Hmm." Bai Yu's eyes remained calm as he stared blankly at the streak in the sky.
"So... Senior Brother is the reincarnation of the last priest of the Soul Clan, and I am... the reincarnation of the princess who opened the city gate?"
"You're overthinking it." Yang Wennan chuckled, gently pushing her head away and reminding her, "Don't get too close to him. You two are like oil and water, you'll get hurt."
"If I get injured, will I be able to remember what happened in the past?"
Bai Yu paused for a moment, then remained silent.
Yang Wennan sighed helplessly and handed the motionless Golden Crow to her, saying, "Take good care of it; it's also your junior brother."
"You're lying to me!" Wang Xi glared at him. "Junior Brother does have a Golden Crow by his side, and it's quite a handful. This one is too quiet. If it didn't occasionally move, I would have mistaken it for a silly bird."
"I suppose so," Bai Yu replied, hesitant to speak.
He stood up from the ground. "The Snow Woman is dead. She's in danger. Do you want to go out?"
"What would I do if I went out?" Yang Wennan pointed to his eyes, which were mostly white, and then shook the cane in his hand. "I won't go out, and I advise you not to go out either! Your heart isn't with the Snow Maiden, so all your scheming has been wasted. I don't want to risk going out to collect your corpse."
Bai Yu hesitated for a moment, then finally stopped. He looked at Yang Wennan as if he were looking at his pillar of support, "Di Ruo, do you remember everything?"
"If I remembered everything, I wouldn't be sitting here with you all in this daze." Yang Wennan nudged Wang Xi, who was still in a daze, and tossed her a pebble. "Come on! No sword practice today, let's smash the ice!"
Wang Xi nodded blankly and threw the golden crow away.
Wang Xi: ...
Yang Wennan: ...
Bai Yu:......
With a deafening roar, the earth trembled, the ice surface quickly broke open, and the golden crow sank to the bottom of the river.
"Quick, quick, quick! I didn't mean to! I was too fast! Save the bird!" Wang Xi shouted as she rushed forward!
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