Chapter 2158: Avalanche

Zhong Xuan is a knowledgeable person when it comes to history.

What is meant by "build high walls, accumulate ample grain, and slowly proclaim kingship"?

That year, the world was in great contention, dragons and tigers met, and Snow Taizu, Hong Junyan, rose to power in the northwest. His first step was to choose seclusion, claiming he intended to deal with the Asura and had no desire for worldly authority, thereby gaining stable development time. His intention was to watch the tigers fight from a separate mountain, waiting until the various strong powers were exhausted before coming out to tidy up the broken mountains and rivers.

This steady and measured strategy almost became a joke due to the rise of Jing Taizu, Tang Yu.

The various strong powers did become tired, and the world's opportunities did present themselves, but the false seclusion turned into true seclusion.

Hong Junyan initially held firm and did not venture out, until finally there was no way to move east.

It wasn't that he hadn't tried, but successive strategies to move east were all shattered by Jing Country.

How many people secretly mocked him, some even openly — Hong Junyan had grand plans and ambitions, commanded powerful generals and mighty armies, yet his influence never left Snow Domain. Born in an era of swirling clouds, he remained a spectator in vain.

But who could have thought that Hong Junyan would store troops, store grain, store to the limit, and store for a full three thousand eight hundred years!

He waited until the former overlords retired one by one, either dying or hiding, before coming out to contend for hegemony again.

Meng Lingxiao has already reached the Dao, Wei Qingpeng is still alive, and Hong Junyan, who holds the core secret of the Longevity Palace, surely hasn't truly died either. The only suspense lies in how he will return.

And Zhong Xuan will personally witness history!

For a historian, this is simply a heaven-sent resource. Jiang Ge Yuan, you've done well!

As an old True Person, Zhong Xuan, after all, possessed the steadiness of an elder. He quickly captured all the incoming information, subtly tidied his clothes, and his expression was already very calm: "So that's how it is! You have frozen all the strong individuals from history using Rindong Immortal Technique, gathering them here now. You've laid out the past in the present, using history to support the future... If I haven't guessed wrong, the one returning to this empty coffin should be the Winter Emperor?"

Under the gaze of the entire country's civil and military officials, the contemporary Snow Monarch, Hong Xingjian, pulled the chain with his backhand and flew alone to a higher place: "To Winter Coffin, Freeze Spirit Coffin, Snow Silent Coffin, Cold Feather Coffin... These four coffins are the masters of the four directions. The last step of the Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array requires the support of four Dao-reaching strong individuals to summon the Extreme Frost Coffin and welcome back Taizu's peak power."

"Inside this Freeze Spirit Coffin should be the Frost Immortal Monarch. It's a pity that she, the elder, died in battle during the demon extermination campaign over two thousand years ago. Her spirit is dim and unable to return to this coffin..."

Hong Xingjian looked up to the sky and howled: "Where is the Winter Emperor? The reincarnation of the Frost Immortal Monarch should also bear the responsibility of the Frost Immortal Monarch!"

His voice echoed in the long sky.

And a slender, cold figure descended from the sky: "With Snow Country's great undertaking, how could Xie Ai be absent?"

Jiang Wang finally saw Xie Ai again.

This ice-carved beauty appeared above Freeze Spirit City, as if she were the clothes of winter, the image of winter, indeed the daughter of Rindong, the contemporary Winter Emperor!

"Just discovered Nalan Longzhi's trace... But he still managed to escape." She stated this flatly, then raised her hand, pointing a finger towards Cold Feather City.

One finger brought about a new heaven in Snow Domain.

The power of the Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array was pulled, causing Freeze Spirit City to roar for a time.

The city's base was covered in cold frost, ice edges climbed the city walls, cold air surged to the sky, and instantly a virtual shadow crossed the sky — the fourth coffin had already been summoned!

Cold dragons carried the coffin, and True Monarchs returned to their positions.

Dao-reaching cultivators are not ordinary vegetables, they cannot be grown crop by crop. To deceive the world is even more difficult.

Like the Frost Immortal Monarch, Xu Qiuci, who died under everyone's gaze, there was no possibility of escaping back to an Immortal Coffin.

Snow Country has been established for so many years, and the only True Monarchs they have truly hidden are Meng Lingxiao and Wei Qingpeng. One cultivated in seclusion as a True Person, deceiving heaven and crossing the sea, and the other was heavily injured and near death, faking death to hibernate.

Hong Junyan's plan for future hegemony, its true core, was not the Dao-reaching absolute peaks people looked up to. It was precisely those "past warriors" whom Wei Yu criticized as "frozen meat"!

These strong armies accumulated over Snow Country's long history, led by the Free Lead Coin, and the families who hibernated with them, are the foundation of hegemony.

They will fill this sparsely populated country and truly give Snow Country the potential to rival other hegemonic countries.

Just like the now densely packed Snow Silent City.

They will bring the potential from the past years into the present. Three thousand eight hundred years of time and space, stacked into one piece.

This is the true "using history to support the future."

In this process, of course, there were many unpredictable risks. For example, before they woke up, Snow Country might have already been annexed. For example, when these people wake up from hibernation, the world might have already been unified...

Fu Huan was the person left behind to control the risks.

He sat on the Eternal Holy Winter Peak, gazing at this country for a long time, ensuring the smooth promotion of the "future hegemony" plan.

Perhaps he was never lonely from the beginning, because his comrades would answer his call.

This great array that propelled Snow Domain's power, the Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array, required the protection of four True Monarchs in its final step.

And this fourth one... naturally could only be Fu Huan.

The power of the great immortal array roared in this space and time.

A cold tide swept across Snow Domain, and the sky actually became an ice mirror.

Everyone looked up at the high sky, where the reflection of the Polar Sky Tower mountain range could be seen, and what they solely gazed at was the peak that did not melt.

Although Snow Taizu, Hong Junyan's strategy was grand, hiding troops for three thousand eight hundred years was a big move. But next door, could Jing Country tolerate it? How would the alliance of the five northwestern countries position themselves in that awkward situation between the two major countries?

This time, Tai Xu Ge promoted the Star Road method, and Snow Country immediately decided to open its doors, setting it for seven days later to fully welcome the Tai Xu Illusion Realm. What's more, the Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array has just begun, obviously just to prevent other countries from having time to react.

Snow Country is confident that within seven days, they will make "Cold Cicada revive, old people new wake" a fait accompli.

Will Jing Country come to interfere?

Jiang Wang was a spectator throughout the entire process. Even the records were taken by Zhong Xuan, and reporting duty afterwards was unnecessary — couldn't he just flip through the history books?

But he had a strong premonition that change was about to happen.

Snow Country has been too smooth so far, almost unbelievably smooth. It's as if someone is helping them clear obstacles.

There are no obstacles inside or out, how could the world be so calm and peaceful?

The present world, three thousand eight hundred years later, is not easier to contend with than three thousand eight hundred years ago!

Not disappointing the expectations of the people of Snow Country, Fu Huan has already risen from the Eternal Holy Winter Peak.

This True Monarch who existed since the founding of Snow Country is also the strong mountain in the hearts of the people of Snow Domain.

It is only fitting that he personally completes the last step of the Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array, welcoming back his old friends.

"In this glorious great world, winds rise and clouds surge, how many heroes are valiant, success and failure turn to emptiness!" He stood barefoot and in thin clothes on a high cliff, overlooking the violent lightning, as if a distant traveler who had finally reached the end of the sky, arriving at the shore of the thunder sea: "I once saw the human race defeat the demon race, the country gate guarding the demon gate, and was the first person to establish a country! I once saw a descendant of a saint in the east, also testing the heights with the present generation; I saw an absolute world kill an absolute world, an emperor suppressing fierce beings and opening a hegemonic country; I saw an infinite divine power lift the Nine Tripods, spreading a brave name in the place where the sun sets; I once saw a pair of heavenly eyes, leading divine glory as an emperor's robe; I saw the one who would not serve, raising a flag alone in the southern border!"

"I saw heroes cover the world, rivers and mountains competing with demonic charm, and yet I was a spectator by the shore!"

"How can a hero's ambition be extinguished? The frozen snow does not wither, the wild fire surges!"

"I have waited for three thousand eight hundred and ninety-two years, Hong Junyan has slept for three thousand eight hundred and twelve years, many, many warriors of Snow Country, like cold cicadas hiding in deep snow — it is time, this world should hear, from the land of the northwest, the voice of Snow Domain!"

"This is the hegemony we left unfinished at the beginning of the Dao Calendar, this is an unprecedented great snow avalanche!!!"

He relied on the authority left behind by Hong Junyan, adjusting the entire Cold Cicada Winter Oh Immortal Array alone, and finally, at this moment, successfully harmonizing everything, on the Eternal Holy Winter Peak, shaking and pressing his palm—

This single press changed the human world.

Cold air steamed up and gathered into a sea of clouds, the vast sea of clouds like a snow avalanche!

For a time, it actually had the momentum of the sky tilting.

Large patches of frost clouds fell, like countless cold feathers, falling towards Cold Feather City, returning to the Cold Feather Coffin!

"Not good—interrupt."

At this moment of ultimate shock, a voice suddenly rang out in the void.

This voice wasn't particularly majestic, yet it inexplicably made people feel close.

Like a friend you haven't seen in a long time, like an old relative from your hometown.

But it stopped everything, as if an invisible long knife had cut through the so-called "great snow avalanche."

As this voice rang out, cause and effect were cut off. The frost clouds that were falling from the tilting sky all stopped. Like clumps of cotton candy propped up by sticks, waiting for a child to eat, they just hung in the sky.

And after an instant, everything was clear and empty!

No shadow, no trace.

The sky dome was a mirror.

From the reflection in the ice mirror sky dome, people saw—the entire Polar Sky Tower mountain range violently distorted with space for a moment. When it calmed down, it was also like some declaration.

On the peak of the Eternal Holy Winter Peak, the sea of ancient thunder clouds that gathered around the peak naturally parted, opening a path.

A man with empty hands, wearing black majestic marquis robes and a smile on his face, walked step by step from the end of the thunder sea path, towards Fu Huan.

He said: "In principle, I am not willing to strangle others' ideals, especially when you have all prepared for so many years."

"But True Monarch Fu, I have to say, your plan is probably somewhat taken for granted. How many troops have you hidden in these three thousand eight hundred years? How many strong armies? Two branches? Three branches? Four branches?"

This person's feet divided the thunder sea, his eyes opened heaven and earth, his momentum was absolute in the sky dome, and he naturally possessed a power that made people convinced: "You, Fu Huan, are also considered to have participated in the era — I am the one who ensures they keep up with the era. I only need three to five years, and I can naturally let them adapt to contemporary war methods and get used to the latest soldier arrays."

"They just took a nap, they are not truly dead."

"Is your problem only limited to this?" The man who walked out of the thunder sea raised his hand and remotely pointed towards Snow Silent City. To be precise, he pointed towards the first generation Winter Oh Bishop, Wei Qingpeng: "Wei Qingpeng was considered a famous general of his generation that year, skilled in attack and breaking arrays, and renowned for his heavy cavalry on the Yu Abyss battlefield. But soldier methods have a three thousand eight hundred year gap now. The array maps we use now are on a completely different level than that year. I dare say, if each were to lead a branch of cavalry into battle, deciding victory solely on soldier arrays, he might not even be able to defeat Wei Yu. You might not recognize Wei Yu — he's just that little guy hiding in the Tai Xu Corner Tower pretending to be dead."

Everyone subconsciously looked towards the Tai Xu Corner Tower.

Wei Yu only regretted why the Corner Tower didn't have a basement; he really wanted to drill down a bit lower.

The script wasn't supposed to be like this — he was originally supposed to be the brave one who stepped into Snow Country, deeply understood Snow Country, and after the war, naturally participated in the main governance of Snow Country, a Great Qin heaven's favorite. In some sense, Jiang Wang casually saying he wanted to be emperor of Snow Country wasn't completely baseless.

According to the script, he should have had a relatively clear identity, triggering change at a key moment, overturning the heaven and earth of Snow Domain, winning the hearts of both heaven and people.

How come all the spotlight is on these old men now?

The old ones flip heaven and earth, turning hands for clouds and covering hands for rain.

The young ones like him can only be surrounded, watched, and pointed at here!

How shameful!

Unlike Wei Yu's embarrassment.

Many people noticed that Wei Qingpeng, who was known for his fiery temper in history, did not retort at all.

Someone who truly understands soldiers certainly knows how terrifying the innovation of war methods is. When he was still fighting on the front lines that year,

He dared not relax for a moment, always learning and researching, with military reports always in hand, fearing being left behind by the era.

Sleeping for three thousand eight hundred years, how could there be no price? Missing three thousand eight hundred years of era development is the most significant part!

He respected the facts. But an absolute peak like him can certainly walk back.

Three thousand eight hundred years of era development becoming his teacher again, he can once again learn history with the vision of an absolute peak. How is this not a beautiful thing?

So he only grinned; he did not speak.

And the man walking in the thunder sea again pointed towards the sky above To Winter City, towards Meng Lingxiao who was lightly shaking his fan, and lightly laughed: "Meng Lingxiao? An absolute top True Person from Dao Calendar year one five zero zero? It's a pity it's now Dao Calendar year three nine two six. The limits of the absolute top are being broken one after another. If today's Meng Lingxiao is still a True Person—"

He turned his hand and remotely pointed at Jiang Wang who was silently watching: "I'm afraid he won't be a match for this True Person Jiang who is only twenty-six years old this year!"

Meng Lingxiao turned his head to look at Jiang Wang standing in the pavilion eaves, surprise in his eyes: "He grew so young and beautiful, but is he really only twenty-six years old?"

Even using the method of overdrawing potential, becoming a True Person at twenty-six is really quite terrifying.

Wei Qingpeng also stared with wide eyes, gazing this way, wanting to see what kind of monster this was — indeed, this nap has brought about dramatic changes; the world already has twenty-six-year-old True Persons?

The man in the thunder sea continued to boast: "During the period you were frozen, there were no True Persons under thirty years old in this world. But now, among the nine Ge Yuan within this Tai Xu Ge alone, more than half are True Persons of this kind! And the Jiang Wang you see is only twenty-three years old when he became a True Person! What kind of era do you think this is? Humanity has reached its peak, this is the most glorious great world! Some outdated people, with some outdated ideas, holding some rigid power, actually delusionally seek to establish hegemony today."

He was magnanimous, while the people of Snow Country were cautious. Jiang Wang hurriedly drove the Tai Xu Ge back another thousand Zhang: "My smile does not mean I agree, and my lack of a smile does not mean I oppose. Silence is not consent, and speaking is not contention. I am just explaining myself — before today, I did not recognize anyone among you, and I have no position. I have no concept of the world's great situation, and I don't understand politics. You all chat, and you don't need to mind me fighting. Tai Xu Ge is absolutely neutral, and I am just a passerby!"

Today he was overly cautious, his eyes watching as he was about to exit the Snow Country border!

The crowd then withdrew their gaze.

They can certainly reach the absolute peak again. What they lack is only knowledge; we were prepared long ago and are also very willing to relearn.

On the top of Eternal Holy Winter Peak, Fu Huan performed very calmly: "These problems do not trouble you." "Yes, in the end, it's still a matter of time. As long as given some time, I believe these old world elites can also adapt to the new era." The man in the black marquis robes, just like this, stepped forward, stepping onto the Eternal Holy Winter Peak face to face: "But having already seen me, do you feel — you still have time?"

He faced Fu Huan but held his hands behind his back, calmly saying: "Qin Country's Xu Wang, now obeying the Great Qin Emperor's order, is specially here to take over Snow Domain!"

Great Qin Zhen Marquis, Xu Wang!

The Xu Wang who had just led the army to fight in Yu Abyss and killed the Asura Monarch, A Ye Ji, not long ago!

He actually killed a path out of the extremely dangerous Yu Abyss, killing the guardian of the Yu Abyss entrance in Snow Country, and came before Fu Huan!

Snow Country wanted to continue its hegemony started in the new year of the Dao Calendar, but the first one to step out and stop them was not the constantly planning Jing Country in Snow Domain, but the other head of Qin Country far in the western border!

But there was something even more terrifying — did Xu Wang come alone?

The fall of the Asura Monarch, A Ye Ji, was actually just the beginning.

What kind of scheme did the cloth-clothed strategist King Xi Xu and this Great Qin Zhen Marquis lay down!

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