As Zhao Layue rode her sword out of the Great Formation of Aoyama, she could see the fiery red mangrove trees on the ground.
The further north she went, the more colorful the ground became, and the forest was dyed red.
However, the farther north she went, the more monotonous the colors became, and the sceneries became more desolate.
It was late autumn.
When she came to the edge of the snowland, White Town had become a white town covered by snow.
She didn't land in the town, but went to the courtyard on the edge of the snowland.
More than one hundred years ago, the Queen of the Snowy Kingdom was pregnant, and the snowland was in chaos. Many young Cultivation practitioners participating in the Plum Meeting were lost in the chaos, including Bai Zao and Jing Jiu.
The swordsmen of various sects came to the rescue and built many courtyards overnight. These courtyards had been preserved until now.
These courtyards were repaired every once in a while, so they didn't look dilapidated. Plum blossoms and green pines could be seen occasionally in the snow, looking very beautiful.
As Zhao Layue landed in a courtyard, He Zhan came out to greet her, smiling faintly at her.
They hadn't seen each other for one hundred years. These young geniuses had grown into true swordsmen.
Zhao Layue had entered the state of the Broken Sea. He Zhan had fought hard in the snowland for one hundred years and practiced the methods of the two holy lands, Shui Yue Nunnery and Guocheng Temple, but he was not inferior to her.
The sound of bowls and chopsticks breaking suddenly broke out in the kitchen behind the courtyard. Zhao Layue glanced at He Zhan with a slightly surprised expression.
He Zhan said while covering his face with his hands, "She has been learning how to cook recently."
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For a mistress of the Platanus Sect like Sensei, cooking was the most difficult thing in the world, ten thousand times more difficult than making the Clean-Heart Bell.
But if she cooked hotpot, she could still eat it.
The steaming mist rose up in the courtyard, and then was blown away by the cold wind.
The three of them sat around the table. On the plates were some ordinary mutton and tofu. What was truly precious were the plates of green vegetables that had been transported from Juye City thousands of miles away.
Sensei calmed down from the surprise of reuniting with Zhao Layue. She looked at her and asked with concern, "How is he now?"
Zhao Layue lifted her head after finishing the meat on the plate with her head lowered. "I didn't go to Zhaoge City," she said calmly.
Sensei and He Zhan looked at each other in surprise. What was going on?
Given the relationship between Zhao Layue and Jing Jiu, there was something wrong with her coming to the snowfield instead of visiting him after she came out of the closed-door training.
There must be some secrets, but it's not convenient to ask. Sensei lowers her head and begins to eat the meat. The atmosphere around the table becomes a little strange.
Zhao Layue knew that they had misunderstood her, asking, "How is the situation in the snowfield?"
He Zhan said, "The Queen must have been wounded after the battle. She has sent a great number of her personal snow monsters to the south. If they go deep into the snowfield, they will be under great pressure. However, the situation in White Town and the border wall is much better than before. There hasn't been any monster invasion for more than one hundred years. It looks like there won't be any monster invasion in the next few decades."
"How is the Broadsword King doing?" asked Zhao Layue.
He Zhan shook his head, saying, "His wound is very serious. He hasn't fully recovered after recuperating for dozens of years, so he won't be able to fight in a short time. Zen Master will come here from Zhaoge City next spring."
After Lian Sanyue's death, a bright broadsword light shot out from the small temple behind White Town and into the deep part of the snowfield.
The fight between the Broadsword King and the Queen of the Snowy Kingdom lasted ten years.
This fight was truly earth-shattering and unparalleled.
Countless people came to the periphery of the snowfield to watch the fight. Though they couldn't see what was happening in the deep part of the snowfield, they could see the collapsed black mountains and the snowy fog rising up into the sky.
The earthquakes in the snowfield had never ceased during the ten years.
The Broadsword King had demonstrated an unbelievably powerful fighting prowess and an almost insane fighting intent in this fight.
Perhaps, the last fight between Liu Ci and Lian Sanyue before they left the human world could be compared to it.
The only difference was that the Broadsword King didn't die. He dragged his severely wounded body back to the small temple behind White Town.
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The chief commander of the Northern Divine Army was killed by Jing Jiu in the Royal Palace of Zhaoge City back then, but the Zhongzhou School still had a strong influence in the military.
The Windy Broadsword Church had suffered a great deal of pressure from the Northern Divine Army in the decades after the Broadsword King was severely wounded.
The Kunlun Sect grew more and more powerful with the support of the Zhongzhou School. They had many conflicts with the Windy Broadsword Church on the Cold Mountain, but the winner couldn't be decided yet.
The two sides agreed to have a competition next spring at the former site of the Scorching Sun Gorge, to decide the ownership of the Cold Mountain.
This competition would be decided in five rounds. It was evident that they had learned from the competition between the Aoyama Sect and the Zhongzhou School in Zhaoge City one hundred years ago.
As for why the competition was decided in the spring of next year, it was because the Aoyama Sect would choose a new sect master at that time.
This was something He Zhan couldn't figure out.
Jing Jiu hadn't woken up yet, and the position of the sect master of Aoyama was about to change hands. Why did Zhao Layue come to the snowfield?
"My Cultivation state is a bit unstable, so I need some fighting."
Zhao Layue gave her own explanation, but He Zhan and Sensei thought it was more than that.
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It was not the first time that Zhao Layue came to the snowfield, but it was her first time entering the snowfield.
Before entering the snowfield, she went to the temple behind White Town first.
She and Guo Dong had waited for Jing Jiu in this temple for a long time back then. After Guo Dong left, she still waited for a long time. She didn't leave until all the pear blossoms in the city turned white.
She came to the temple and stood in front of the Buddha statue. Her short hair looked like the wild grass blown by the wind.
This Buddha statue was originally a golden Buddha statue. It was unclear whether it was because it had been here for more than one hundred years or for some other reason, but the golden paint on it had peeled off a lot, exposing the faint red clay inside, looking a bit gloomy.
The iron broadsword in front of the Buddha statue was also a bit bent. The most terrifying part was that there was a large gap in the middle of the broadsword.
It was easy to imagine how intense the fight between the Broadsword King and the Queen of the Snowy Kingdom was, and how formidable the Queen was.
She had sat on the doorsill of this temple for a year, so they were familiar with each other. "How are you feeling?" she asked.
"I'm not going to die," the round and broken voice rang out slowly.
Zhao Layue thought that the voice sounded much more broken than before. Even if he was not going to die, it would be hard for him to recover.
"Are you going to enter the snowfield?" asked the Broadsword King.
Zhao Layue repeated what she had told He Zhan and Sensei.
"Don't compete with her."
The voice rang out again after it had disappeared for a while.
"I don't understand what you mean," said Zhao Layue, arching her eyebrows.
"You've reached the upper state of the Broken Sea at such a young age. You're indeed talented and have an amazing willpower, definitely not inferior to her. However, it's not something you can do alone to kill the Queen of the Snowy Kingdom and end the threat to the human race. She can't do it, and neither can you."
The Broadsword King continued, "She insisted on doing it back then because she wanted to compete with Jingyang. The fact has proven that she was wrong. We shouldn't compete with humans, but with heaven."
"I'm not that stupid," said Zhao Layue calmly. "I'm not Lian Sanyue, and I don't want to be her."
The deep laughter echoed in the small temple like the ringing of a bell.
The Broadsword King understood what she meant.
She didn't want to be the second Lian Sanyue, even though she looked like her. It was because she didn't want to be a substitute in Jing Jiu's mind.
It was probably for this reason that she cut her hair short.
"She wanted to gather a group of swordsmen to enter the snowfield and kill the Queen back then. She even tried to kill the hermit peaks of Aoyama and the back mountain of Cloud-Dream. But nobody paid any attention to her except for Pei Baifa and me."
The Broadsword King continued, "Jingyang's answer was the most extreme. After that, they became estranged from each other until this life."
"How did he answer?" asked Zhao Layue.
"Don't disturb my ascension," said the Broadsword King.
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It grew quiet in the small temple.
Even Zhao Layue thought that Jingyang's answer back then was too cold and uninteresting.
The Broadsword King sighed, "She should be happy that someone like Jingyang would risk his life for her in this life."
"But how could he be happy after she left?" Zhao Layue snapped. "You and I still have to stay alive."
The Broadsword King said, "You are indeed the true personal disciple of Jingyang; you have the same way of thinking."
"So you don't have to worry about me."
Having said this, Zhao Layue flew toward the deep part of the snowfield by riding her sword.
The Thoughtless Sword withdrew its blood-red glow, because she didn't want to alarm too many people, and she didn't want to alarm that person in the deep part of the snowfield.
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