Chapter 2156: Cicadas Chirp in Early Winter

Jiang True Person took big steps through the wind and snow.

The Snow Domain seemed to be a dream woven from wind and snow, with snow forever present and the wind never ceasing.

However many days he had cultivated inside the Tai Xu Corner Tower, Wei Yu had followed for that many days.

So there was no need for him to ask Wei Yu again if he still had anything to do.

Wei Yu’s task... was already completed.

And he had no plans to stay any longer.

Every completed Tai Xu Walker task would receive Xiao Shu’s legacy thought—that was the voice of Xiao Shu as Jiang Wang imagined it, in his memory.

Only one sentence, he would ask every person—“Do you still have the courage to change the world?”

No need to answer.

The law of the Star Road would be equally bestowed upon every person, regardless of what they thought.

Would this world be changed by young people? Would it become better? Or worse?

For now, there was no answer.

But it was time for the Snow Country to change.

The Star Road law, which could supplement the Outer Tower Chapter, was a gift left to the human world by Xiao Shu. No cultivator should miss it.

If the Snow Country continued its isolation, it would actively fall behind the era, neglecting the thousands of cultivators in the Snow Country.

The Tai Xu Illusion itself possessed such meaning, but it didn't have the direct, raw arrival of the Star Road law.

Just like if you tell children to go to school, that reading books leads to a future, perhaps not many people would pay attention. But if you say come to school and get eggs... the threshold would be immediately trampled down.

Turning this street over, then it was the main road of Snow Silent City.

On the main road spacious enough for eight horses to gallop abreast, Lu Kuiwu stood in the middle of the road.

At this moment, Lu Kuiwu wore heavy armor on his body, a black helmet clamped in his left armpit, his right hand carrying an old wine jar still sealed with mud on its edge, just tilting his head and drinking heartily. His throat knot moved, wine liquid gurgled, wine fragrance overflowed, and his wine-flushed nose was even redder.

The frosty wind scattered the thick fog.

The long street became open.

Behind him were rows upon rows of warriors in cold armor. Their spears stood like a forest, the people cold like ice. They extended to the end of vision.

“Jiang True Person!” He raised this jar of wine high: “Drink or not?!”

Wine vapor rose like white fog, presenting a quite heroic sight.

The caution, unease, and shrinking back of the past few days seemed not to be him.

But Jiang Wang was still that Jiang Wang.

“Drinking wine delays matters.” Jiang Wang continued to walk forward, as if leisurely appreciating the scenery: “General Lu has important duties on his body, even less so with some.”

“This jar of wine has accompanied me for many years. The hardships of the Snow Domain, without drinking some strong wine, it's hard to resist the heavenly cold!” Lu Kuiwu put down this wine jar, hanging it at his side: “Snow Domain delicacies, lord does not eat. Snow Domain fine wine, lord does not drink. Lord came to the Snow Country, actually for what?”

Jiang Wang faced a thousand-man army alone, looked up at the snow in the sky. Although his body was in the city, it inexplicably appeared very distant: “Treat me as a spectator. I represent the Tai Xu Pavilion, only one outcome.”

Without seeing how he moved, he had already walked past Lu Kuiwu’s side, through the army formation, and walked directly forward.

The thousand-man army formation only stood idle.

Lu Kuiwu put on his helmet, threw the wine jar on the ground, pressed his knife and looked back in the wind and snow, only to see a set of coarse clothes, walking out of the city gate.

“General?” The deputy general asked softly.

Until the green color in his vision was completely buried by the snow color, Lu Kuiwu then lifted the armor on his hand. Looking at the floating snow melting on the steel, he said in a low voice: “The snow is too light, falling down with no weight.”

The deputy general said: “But when the snow avalanches, it will bury everything.”

Lu Kuiwu’s hand covered his chest armor, and he said in a pious voice: “Thank Rindong, for assigning the barren plain with poetic sentiment; Thank Rindong, for giving all things hibernation....”

The army formation on the long street all began to recite: “Thank Rindong, for purifying this world; Thank Rindong, for walking with me....”

Lu Kuiwu drew out his military knife: “Just starting from here, it’s already been many years, my bones are all rusty!”

Snow Silent City began to be noisy in early winter October.

There was the sound of cicadas on the long street.

When the sound of cicadas rang up outside the building, Wei Yu had already finished what he should do, and also accepted the fact that he had been shaken off by Jiang True Person.

Inside this Tai Xu Corner Tower, he had already sat for thirty-one days.

This was a cycle that repeated, thirty-one days with no day being the same.

The people of Snow Silent City never came to disturb him, and Jiang True Person also never moved a step, cultivating every moment. Occasionally he would ask, and Jiang True Person would basically answer, but after solving the cultivation problem, he would continue to cultivate.

Wei Yu considered himself diligent in cultivation, but operating like this day and night, like a puppet, was truly a bit fearsome...

He truly once suspected that Jiang True Person had extinguished emotion and absolute desire, with nothing in his heart except cultivation.

Now it was good, the suspicion was removed. Jiang True Person still remembered the task.

But the bad news was—Jiang True Person didn't bring himself to play.

After the hard cultivation ended, this moment he actually began to miss it.

Wei Yu silently took out his long sword, he of course could understand the sound of cicadas.

The Three Nines is the coldest time of the year, and cicadas always sing in the summer.

There is only one kind of winter cicada in the world, which is for the immortal technique · Three Nine Cold Cicada.

This technique exhausts the principle of life and death, making people like summer cicadas passing the Three Nines, withering but not shedding glory. Rindong Immortal Palace is also called “Longevity Palace,” precisely relying on this kind of core immortal technique.

Snow Silent City is not a normal city, and Lu Kuiwu is also not a person of this era. He didn’t live for a very long time, but froze his vitality. Namely, the Cold Cicada sheds its skin and revives, the old person wakes anew.

People in the world did not know, but the Qin Country was very clear.

In the Snow Domain, the first person to truly inherit the Rindong Immortal Technique and completely repair the Rindong Immortal Palace was not the Frost Immortal Monarch, but the founding ancestor of the Snow Country, Hong Junyan!

More than two thousand years ago, Xu Qiuci was a successor of Hong Junyan’s generation. The Rindong Immortal Palace in her hands was also inherited from the Snow Country’s secret store.

And the reincarnation body of the Frost Immortal Monarch...

The sound of cicadas... grew noisier.

“Do not break the Tai Xu Corner Tower, provoke Jiang True Person to return, you these... frozen meat!”

Wei Yu held his sword with the edge, and leaped down from the window.

Jiang True Person was outside the city, leaving the huge Snow Silent City behind him.

In a certain instant when he looked back, the silent, majestic city in the icy sky and snowy ground was like a huge tomb.

Of course, he noticed not this city.

Snow flying all over the sky floated in front of him, then was blown away by the wind, vaguely scattering into a human shape.

Xie Ai's extremely beautiful face then became concrete within this human shape, her outline clear and exquisite, crystal clear, still with three points of cold intent.

As soon as she appeared, she reached out a hand.

Jiang Wang stood quietly in the snow without moving, his hand pressing his long sword, and behind him faintly appeared the shadow of an ancient pavilion!

Time and space seemed to stop.

Amidst the wind and snow all over the sky, the extremely beautiful, extremely sorrowful woman, and the extremely quiet, extremely peaceful man, just faced each other like this.

The woman in the air.

The man on the snowy ground.

Behind the woman was a changing city taking root in the earth.

Behind the man was a seemingly eternal pavilion, faintly in the void.

This was a messy, opposing, contradictory, and stopped painting.

The woman's slender, cold fingertip lightly brushed over the man's shoulder, brushing off a piece of snow, and she said in a low voice: “You want to find the truth, how do you find it?”

Wind, snow, person, re-vivid.

Xie Ai could brush off a piece of snow for him under the seal of the Tai Xu Pavilion, of course she could also pick off his head.

But Jiang Wang showed no emotion.

He stood quietly in the snow, and only said: “I don’t want to seek the truth, I wait for the truth to spread out in front of my eyes. I don’t push for change, I wait for change to happen.”

In Cold Flower City’s Ask Immortal Tower, Xie Ai had already hinted at who the resistance in the Tai Xu Illusion in the Snow Country came from. But Jiang Wang did not investigate the truth as she had expected. Instead, he caught a few criminals in a hasty manner, then carried Wei Yu to the Tai Xu Corner Tower, and sat for thirty-one days.

A very suitable chess piece for stirring up the situation, had jumped out of the chessboard on his own.

Today, he still couldn’t be said to be the controller of the world's situation, but to use him as a chess piece, one also had to ask if he was willing.

“Since ancient times, dragons and tigers gather wind and clouds, and heroes are the vortex.” Xie Ai sighed and said: “You came to the Snow Country with a grand display, yet performed so quietly, truly beyond my expectation.”

Jiang Wang looked at the color of the sky: “The wind and snow here are too big, why don’t we find a place to avoid it?”

Xie Ai said: “Both want to avoid the wind and snow, why come to the Snow Domain?”

“After all, the Tai Xu Pavilion has an attitude.” Jiang Wang said: “I am the attitude.”

“The matter of Illuminate No Color, you don't plan to continue investigating?”

“I thought about it again and again, and it's better to wait for official matters to be cleared up, then consider private matters. I am a clumsy person who cannot divide my heart.”

“Modest! You detached yourself very timely.”

Jiang Wang was silent for a moment, and replied: “I bought a ticket to watch the play, not a salary for performing on stage.”

“How do you explain the Star Road law? A stroke from God, a good Outer Tower Chapter, the Snow Country’s gate has already been knocked open by you. You made us all waste time.”

“You.”

“You want to know the answer?”

... I don’t want to. Watching a play and knocking a gong to urge the performance, is it reasonable after all? I can’t always sit like this, after watching the play I still want to go home and sleep early.”

Xie Ai asked: “You said you are waiting for change to happen... what change do you hope for?”

Jiang Wang said: “No matter what change, the opening of the Snow Domain is fixed. I only hope it happens early and ends early.”

“You don’t want to participate?”

“Why should I participate?”

Xie Ai suddenly smiled: “Not up to you!”

Then with a roll of her sleeve, instantly the scene shifted and the light turned.

Jiang Wang was already wrapped and carried flying over the high sky.

The ten thousand li Snow Domain was vast and white!

Looking down, there was nothing to see, and Xie Ai waved her large sleeve.

The floating fog all went away, and the layer of clouds opened on their own.

The vast, sparsely populated Snow Country, just like this, unveiled its mysterious veil of thousands of years.

Jiang Wang for the first time saw the territory of the Snow Country clearly.

He saw the scenery further west than Cold Flower City, saw the shadows of the cities outside Cold Flower, Snow Silent, and Ice Yang, and also saw the complete five great teaching districts.

He originally wanted to close his eyes for the first time, but yet surprisingly discovered...

The entire Snow Country was one big array. At this moment, the big array was already open, the entire Snow Domain was within the coverage of the big array!

Even more worth discussing was... this was not a protective country big array.

He had once fought east and west, personally experiencing many big arrays. This array was so large in scale, yet it was different in nature from a protective country big array.

One city after another was a node of the big array, especially in the west of Cold Flower City, all completely unconcealed. If there was someone proficient in the path of arrays, they would only need to walk through four or five cities to sense its array.

No wonder the Snow Country only opened three cities and did not permit outsiders to go west. If it was to hide this array, then everything made sense.

From such a high place, the voice of the Winter Emperor was also as cold as the wind brought by the sky: “I have already expressed my attitude in Extreme Frost City, and the country lord Hong Xingjian has already ordered—seven days from now, the Snow Domain will be formally opened, and the Snow Country from top to bottom will fully welcome the Tai Xu Illusion, and fully build the Tai Xu Corner Towers. Cabinet Member Jiang, your task is complete, is all this as you wished?”

Jiang Wang suppressed the emotions in his heart and said in a steady voice: “This follows the will of the people, and I am also a part of the world, of course I am happy to see it.”

“Then should you be as I wished?” Xie Ai asked.

Jiang Wang only said: “We all act as we wish.”

“Look—” Xie Ai seemed to have no plan to force anything, and lifted a finger to point at the painted rivers and mountains: “This piece is the Winter Zai Teaching District, its shape is like a snowflake; this piece is the Rindong Intent Teaching District, the largest ice lake on the border of the Snow Country is within this teaching district, it is also the coldest teaching district; this piece is the Blue Bird Teaching District, the terrain is like a flying bird; this piece is the Frost Merge Teaching District, does it look like a mirror? This piece is the Feather Heart Teaching District, the Heaven Que Mountain Range in the extreme land is within this teaching district, the Snow Too Ancestor Hong Junyan once said in a poem, ‘Mighty passes lock the moon worrying the golden crow, the husband holds a sword at the heaven gate...’”

Jiang Wang said: “I can feel your emotions towards this piece of the Snow Domain. During the days you left the Snow Country, it certainly appeared repeatedly in your dreams.”

The Winter Emperor was stunned for a moment, probably not expecting Jiang Wang to suddenly chat about this.

“Yes, how could Xie Ai not love the Snow Country?” She said, and continued to point: “See those several cities?”

The several cities she specially pointed out, belonging respectively to the five great teaching districts, had obvious extraordinary qualities in the vast Snow Domain picture.

This earth-shattering big array, its light flowing like water, obviously tilted towards these five cities.

Xie Ai’s voice said: “These five cities are Extreme Frost City, To Winter City, Freeze Spirit City, Snow City, and Cold Feather City.”

Among them was actually Snow Silent!

Jiang Wang had stayed there for thirty-one days, and it had always been silent and calm during these thirty-one days—at this moment it just rumbled up.

As if a long sword was being unsheathed, there was a cry on the verge of coming out.

Its huge outline bulged on the snowy plain, its shape like... a coffin!

Jiang Wang then looked towards the other four cities, but he did not know if he had a preconceived notion, he looked at every rising city, all like coffins, coffins of various shapes.

Just like he looked at those ice houses buried halfway in the ground, he always felt as if they were tombs...

He withdrew his gaze, allowing himself to be closer to an indifferent bystander.

“What is happening inside, are you not curious?” Xie Ai asked.

“The Snow Country has been locked down for so many years, finally revealing its secret, who could not be curious?”

“How about going to see.”

Jiang Wang tensed and did not move: “If the Winter Emperor must press me to see, I will have to see. But I myself only want to sit below the stage, far away.”

“These are five coffins.” Xie Ai said: “What they bury, can you guess?”

Jiang Wang said: “I am clumsy.”

“You are just too smart!” Xie Ai pressed Jiang Wang’s shoulder with one hand, and with a flick of her hand, Jiang True Person was already flying out, not of his own accord—that straight body, as if a green throwing spear.

Directly throwing this throwing spear towards Extreme Frost City!

Diving down several thousand zhang from the high dome, all the way through clouds, through wind, and then through snow. As if a comet falling, hanging out a tail of rainbow.

Good Jiang True Person!

Just at the moment near Extreme Frost City, three brilliant light balls shrinking into one world flew out from outside his body, the three worlds flew and turned, mixing into one body—that dao body under the green shirt suddenly erupted like a volcano, bursting out with an earth-shshaking breath. It actually shook off that terrifying inertia, abruptly stopped, suspended above the sky of the just rising Extreme Frost City!

Jiang True Person’s face of battle reaction was world unmatched. At the key moment of striving to burst out and shake off his “throwing spear identity,” he had already reached out to touch the Tai Xu Hook Jade—

Heaven and earth are vast, Tai Xu has no distance!

Good you Winter Emperor, wait until I derive the Dao to see you!

Jiang True Person’s set of actions was as smooth as flowing water, but in the midst of his busyness, he still had time to look back at the high dome, leisurely taking a step—still in the original place.

His hand was also empty.

My jade?!?!