Colorful fireworks lit up the sky above Guangzhou.
Nangong looked out the window, his blood-red eyes shining brightly in the dim room.
She returned with photos that Hua Huo had given her. The photos showed Yan Luo and Tu Yi'er today, as well as some with Chi Miaomiao, and some that Hua Huo had secretly taken when the family was gathered together.
She stopped looking at the fireworks outside the window and stared blankly at the photo in her hand, murmuring, "It's almost here, it's almost here."
A few days ago, she received a message from the exploration team in the Western Regions, and the key to solving the long-standing food problem lay there.
Soon, she will personally travel to the Western Regions to find out the truth.
January 1st, Wednesday.
Yan Luo didn't sleep all night, his gaze always tenderly fixed on Su Qing, who was sleeping soundly beside him.
The blood-red in the young man's eyes had become even brighter, filled with an eerie and mysterious aura. Feeling each other's warmth, he felt at ease, yet also a little unreal, as if all of this had nothing to do with him, which made Yan Luo feel a sense of oppression.
Yanluo didn't understand why she had this feeling.
Su Qing woke up slowly and found Yan Luo looking at her, her face looking somewhat haggard. She reached out and touched Yan Luo's cheek.
"Aren't you asleep?"
Yanlu shook her head.
"No, I can't sleep."
Su Qing shifted her body, burying Yan Luo's face in her arms, while glancing at the clock on the wall.
"It's still early, go to sleep, it's a holiday today anyway."
Yanluo felt her face burning and nodded, but this inadvertently caused Su Qing to let out a soft moan.
"Honey, we have the day off today, how about..."
Su Qing lightly chopped Yan Luo on the head.
"No, I need to go to sleep, or I won't be able to get up."
Yanluo let out a soft cry.
"Then give me a kiss, and I'll go to sleep obediently."
"You're an uncle now, you childish Ah Yan."
Su Qing chuckled, cupped Yan Luo's face in her hands, and kissed his lips forcefully for a while before separating.
"Okay, go to sleep!"
Yanluo nodded, buried her face in Su Qing's arms again, and suddenly felt her eyelids getting heavy. She fell asleep in no time.
I woke up again at eight in the morning.
When she opened her eyes, she found Su Qing looking at her with tender eyes.
"Awake?"
Yanlu snuggled closer to Su Qing.
"Wife."
"Hmm?" Su Qing gently stroked Yan Luo's head as if she were a baby.
"Love you."
In Su Qing's arms, Yan Luo's voice was muffled, still a little hoarse from just waking up.
"Me too."
After washing up, the two left the master bedroom and went downstairs.
Shen Yulan sat at the dining table, smiling as she looked at Yanluo and Su Qing, thinking to herself that Yanluo seemed to be a perfect match for any girl.
Good morning, Auntie!
"Good morning, Xiao Luo, Xiao Qing."
Yanluo noticed that no one else was around. She used her senses to discover that apart from the two older girls and the little one, the rest of the girls were in the backyard.
After finishing her cultivation techniques and spells, Tu Keke realized that her uncle hadn't gotten up yet, so she thought of asking Bai Ningbing and Shang Xinci to be her sparring partners.
She really wants to become stronger.
For so long, Yan Luo had never seen Bai Ningbing make a move. In his eyes, Bai Ningbing was now equivalent to two ninth-level cultivators.
This may be the fate of the human race. Even if they have high cultivation talent and fast speed, they can only reach the level of an ordinary ninth rank in the end. The combat power of a few ninth-rank cultivators with the blessing of inherited ghost artifacts is about 1.5 times that of a ninth-rank cultivator.
Looking across the human realm, Bai Ningbing and Shang Xinci have the highest cultivation levels besides Yan Luo, followed by the ninth-rank captains of the first squad and other squads.
Bai Ningbing did not cultivate after arriving in the human realm. The reason she was able to possess the strength of two ninth-level beings was probably due to the combination of Yuan Yin and Yan Luo's Yang Mi Qing, which caused her stagnant cultivation to break through.
This surprised Bai Ningbing; no wonder the women in her tribe all loved to find men.
The Qingqiu fox clan has two cultivation methods: one is the honest cultivation like Bai Ningbing and Man Sui, and the other is absorbing yang energy to replenish yin energy.
Any method that enhances our strength is a good method, regardless of the approach.
Bai Ningbing is not skilled with weapons and is a pure magic practitioner. However, compared to Shang Xinci, who has lived for countless years, she only knows some existing spells. Shang Xinci is not stingy. When writing "Basic Introduction to Spells and Simple Skills" for the little golden retriever, she also wrote down more ancient spells that have been lost, so that she can further improve her strength.
Yanluo noticed that something seemed to have been arranged on the sliding door to the backyard, making it impossible to see out from the inside, thus preventing Shen Yulan inside from seeing what was happening outside.
Shang Xinci explained to him that this was a kind of illusion, which made Yan Luo marvel at the magic.
Today's sparring is a contest of magic, using the simple attack spells that Tu Keke currently possesses.
The key to magic lies in the degree of control over qi.
More than a dozen three-colored energies condensed behind Tu Keke, slowly transforming into arrows that suddenly shot towards Bai Ningbing. Bai Ningbing simply raised her hand and deployed a white protective shield to easily block them.
Bai Ningbing also used Tu Keke's move, but she condensed dozens of arrows at once. Tu Keke quickly deployed a three-colored interwoven protective shield in an attempt to block it.
However, Bai Ningbing's control over Qi was clearly superior to Tu Keke's. She manipulated the arrows to shoot at Tu Keke's protective shield one by one, striking a single point.
Seeing that the protective shield was cracking, Tu Keke could only mobilize more seasonal energy to maintain it.
Shang Xinci watched Tu Keke from the side.
"Coco, don't just use magic. Use what you've learned."
Tu Keke shook her head and said through gritted teeth, "No, if it's a magic duel, then we can only use magic."
Soon, the protective shield in front of Tu Keke shattered, and she dodged and weaved, avoiding the tracking arrows controlled by Bai Ningbing.
Barely dodging all the arrows, Bai Ningbing then unleashed a fireball at Tu Keke.
Tu Keke calmly stopped, quickly condensed her energy, and swung a fireball in the backhand, colliding with Bai Ningbing's fireball. The burst of energy violently blew through everyone's hair.
Bai Ningbing lowered her cultivation level and sparred with Tu Keke. She condensed more than a dozen fireballs and launched them at Tu Keke all at once.
Tu Keke still wanted to use the protective shield to defend herself, but then she remembered that wise saying.
Iron blocks aren't a cure-all!
This forced her to expend her energy to continue dodging.
In the end, Tu Keke's energy and physical strength were repeatedly exhausted by Bai Ningbing, and she lost.
The golden retriever lay sprawled on the grass, panting heavily.
"Sister Ningbing, you are amazing."
Bai Ningbing simply smiled.
"Practice makes perfect. Coco will be even better than me with more practice."
Shang Xinci glanced at Bai Ningbing indifferently and said, "Indeed."
The fox demon sister's eyes twitched uncontrollably.
"It seems that the Snow Empress has great foresight?"
"Better than you."
The two have grown increasingly close lately, and they often find themselves bickering.
"Then let's have a competition, Snow Empress."
"Let's have a match then. Let's see how many moves the Nine-Tailed Fox can withstand from me."
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