"Su Ming." The woman in white who revealed her canine teeth when she smiled walked down from the sky. There was a ribbon under her feet, and that ribbon floated in the air, causing the woman to look as if she was walking on air. She walked to the platform before Su Ming.
Her voice was gentle, and when it fell into Su Ming's ears, it sounded as if it had traveled through the passage of time, awakening the grief buried deep within his memories, along with the promise he could not fulfill in the past.
At that moment, snow was blown by the wind from the sky. It was swept up and flew into the air before falling between Su Ming and the woman. The snow covered his vision, as if it had split his vision into pieces. Then, as the snow floated down, it gathered together once again.
"Su Ming, do you still remember me..?" The woman in white bit her bottom lip, and a hint of wildness appeared in her bright and beautiful eyes. She approached him with light steps and slowly walked towards him. The faint fragrance that came from her body wafted into Su Ming's face as the wind blew into his nose and entered the depths of his soul.
Under the illumination of the sun in the sky, the glitter on the woman's forehead shone with a brilliant light. When it shone into Su Ming's eyes, it also entered the place where his memories were buried.
The hair that stood up, the two braids by her ears, and the few strands of hair that were lifted by the wind as she got closer touched Su Ming's face.
"Why didn't you come to me..?" the woman whispered softly. Her gentle voice echoed in Su Ming's ears.
A shudder ran through Su Ming's body. He stared at the woman before him blankly, and grief appeared in his eyes.
"Su Ming, do you still remember me? Do you still remember my name..? Do you still remember the first time we met..?" The woman's soft words seeped into Su Ming's heart.
"I remember …" Su Ming mumbled. He lifted his right hand and stroked the woman's black hair before him. Once he untied the red string, he tied it up again, then placed the braids by her ears behind her shoulders. Finally, he took off the sequins on the woman's forehead and changed the distribution of the crystals.
Once he was done, Su Ming's eyes were calm as he spoke languidly, "This will make us look more alike."
Once Su Ming finished speaking, the woman immediately frowned, and it was difficult for her to hide the disgust on her face. She took a few steps back, as if Su Ming's hand touching her hair was also difficult for her to accept.
"If you can become her and make me treat you as her … then when you leave, the mission Su Ma Xin gave you will be considered completed." He cast a glance at the woman before him, then turned around and walked towards Zi Che, who was occasionally looking at them from the distance.
Bai Su stomped her foot on the ground. It could be said that she had prepared meticulously for the shock she would bring to Su Ming this morning. In fact, she had even rehearsed the ambiguous words she would say, the expressions she would make when she spoke, and the expressions she would make when she spoke.
In fact, before she came in the morning, she even practiced in front of the ice mirror. In that moment, she felt as if she had become a different person. It was as if a strange spirit had condensed in her body and changed her every word and action.
She knew deep in her heart that the first time she pretended to be the person in his memories and met Su Ming in this form for the first time would be her best chance.
In fact, if she seized this chance, then there was a high possibility that nothing else would happen.
In truth, when she saw the dazed look on Su Ming's face just now, she was still feeling pleased with herself. When she noticed the sadness in Su Ming's eyes when he looked at her, it made her even more satisfied with her meticulous preparations the night before.
Yet things did not progress according to her wishes. Su Ming's final words and actions made Bai Su know that her preparations for the entire night had failed during their first meeting in this manner.
Su Ming walked towards Zi Che, and as Zi Che looked at him respectfully, Su Ming gave him an order.
"I need something that isn't big but is very heavy. The heavier, the better. Can you get something like this? "
Zi Che fell into a moment of silence before he nodded his head.
"Master, I know of a type of ice called Drowning Ice. It's said that this ice will never melt. A piece the size of a fist is the same weight as a mountain rock the size of a person."
"The more, the better." Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it. A plate fell into Zi Che's hand.
Zi Che looked at the plate and a strange expression appeared on his face. Before he came to the ninth summit, this plate could be said to be a sacred item. Yet now, the more he learned about it, especially when he learned that he had borrowed this item from Hu Zi, the calmer he became.
He wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming with the plate in hand, then turned into a long arc and charged away.
Once Zi Che left, Su Ming walked towards Hu Zi's cave abode along the mountain stairs. Bai Su stomped her feet once again. When she saw that Su Ming was ignoring her, she took a few brisk steps forward and caught up to him.
"Hey, didn't you say that you're going to teach me how to draw?!"
"What do you want to draw?" Su Ming did not stop moving, and his voice was neither fast nor slow.
"Slow down, I want to draw myself!" Bai Su took a few brisk steps forward and only then did she manage to keep pace with Su Ming. It was clear that she did not want to be behind him. Even if the ice on the mountain stairs was rather slippery, she still wanted to keep pace with him.
"It's easy to draw yourself. Just face the ice and look at your reflection on the ice. Then draw it." Su Ming's voice was still the same, calm and placid.
"Then … Then why am I looking for you?!" Bai Su was momentarily stunned, then anger appeared on her face. However, Su Ming was walking very quickly. Usually, with just one step, he would cover several dozens of feet. She found it hard to keep up.
"I didn't ask you to come to me." Su Ming did not even turn his head back. He gradually widened the distance between him and Bai Su.
Bai Su gritted her teeth and started running once again.
"I won't draw myself anymore. I want to draw you!" Bai Su's voice traveled into Su Ming's ears from behind.
Su Ming stopped and turned his head around to cast a glance at Bai Su running towards him.
When Bai Su saw that Su Ming was no longer moving forward, she quickly ran to his side and felt pleased with herself. 'Let's see how you'll answer me this time. If I need to face the ice to draw myself, then if I want to draw someone else, I'll naturally need that person to stand there before I can draw.'
"You want to draw me?" Su Ming looked at Bai Su.
The pride in Bai Su's heart showed on her face. She lifted her chin and the glitter on her forehead shone under the sunlight. Her hair, which was tied up in a ponytail, moved with the wind.
"That's right, I want to draw you." Bai Su let out a harrumph. That smug look of hers overlapped with the figure buried deep in Su Ming's memories for an instant.
Su Ming lifted his right hand and drew a line across an ice rock by his side. With a few strokes, a large amount of ice shards danced in the air, and a person appeared on the ice rock. That person was naturally Su Ming.
"Draw according to this." Once Su Ming finished speaking, he turned around and walked away.
Bai Su was stunned for a moment by the side. She looked at the person Su Ming had drawn on the mountain rock by her side, then at Su Ming, who was walking into the distance. She stomped her foot on the ground once again.
"Su Ming, you bastard!"
Bai Su's current appearance and expression, as well as her words, were completely different from when she was with Si Ma Xin. Usually, in front of Si Ma Xin, Bai Su would always look innocent and naive. She would always look at Si Ma Xin with a gentle gaze and an obedient expression, worshipping him.
Yet when she was before Su Ming on the ninth summit, she seemed to have become a different person. If Si Ma Xin was here, he would definitely be stunned, because the Bai Su at that moment was very different from the Bai Su before him in the past.
Bai Su puffed up her cheeks and glared at Su Ming. Once she stomped her foot on the ground, she saw that Su Ming had already walked far away and she could no longer see his back. She glared at Su Ming's portrait on the mountain rock by her side and lifted her foot to kick it.
"I'll kick you, you bastard, Su Ming!" Bai Su kicked a few times in succession, as if her anger had dissipated slightly. She looked at Su Ming's portrait on the layer of ice, and a thought suddenly appeared in her head. The smug look appeared on her face once again.
She took a few steps forward and brought out a black cylinder from her bosom. She started painting on Su Ming's portrait, and as she did so, she smiled smugly.
Not long after, Su Ming walked into Hu Zi's cave slowly. He did not hear any snores. Instead, there was strange laughter coming from within the cave. Su Ming did not stop and walked in.
The moment he entered Hu Zi's cave, Su Ming immediately saw Hu Zi crouching down on the ground. There were numerous circular pictures drawn before him in a messy manner. There was also a picture of a mountain among those pictures. They surrounded each other as if there was some sort of trajectory within them.
Hu Zi held a dagger in his hand and continued carving on the pictures. As he continued carving, he let out that strange laughter. If Su Ming saw Bai Su's expression at that moment, then he would definitely think that she was somewhat similar to Hu Zi.
"Heh heh, your Grandpa Hu is the smartest, the smartest!"
"So what if you changed the Rune? Damn it, just watch how I'll break it for you!"
"Your Grandpa Hu has lived for so long and I've never run into anything that I can't get through. Damn it, it's such a difficult thing. I'll understand it after I sleep."
Hu Zi was too engrossed in his work that he did not notice Su Ming's arrival. In fact, when Su Ming stood behind him and looked at the pictures Hu Zi was carving, Hu Zi did not even notice it.
"Your Grandpa Hu used ten days, and I've only drunk around thirty pots of wine in those ten days! It's all your fault that I drank so little! Dammit, why did you people from the seventh peak have to switch to the Great Mountain Defense Battle? Just watch how I'm going to break it!" Hu Zi picked up the dagger and carved a few more pictures on the ground. Excitement and joy appeared on his face as he lifted his head and laughed.
Yet the moment he lifted his head and laughed, he saw Su Ming standing beside him. He was stunned and his laughter stopped abruptly.
"Fourth, when did you come?"
"I've been here for a long time …" There was a strange look on Su Ming's face as he looked at Hu Zi, whose hair was a mess and whose eyes were bloodshot.
"You heard everything?" Hu Zi's face was stern.
"I heard … part of it." Su Ming's expression became even stranger.
Hu Zi lowered his head, then lifted it abruptly and hugged Su Ming. His voice was like a tidal wave that echoed in the cave abode.
"Fourth, you're truly my dearest junior brother. You knew that your senior brother Hu Zi would succeed today, so you came to congratulate me. Alright, you're a good junior brother. I won't hide it from you, so you can be my judge. Tell me, do these damned, shameless, perverted, and despicable seventh summit that angers both men and gods? Do they have any sense of justice? Do they have any conscience? Do they have any morals? They … They actually changed the Mountain Protection Rune!"
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