Chapter 2160: Winter Days Grow Short

Hong Junyan had already slept for three thousand eight hundred years. During these three thousand eight hundred years, cultivation methods continuously innovated, and various countries' frontier Dao techniques changed one batch after another.

But three thousand eight hundred years in a True Monarch's long life was not even half. The Bingdong Immortal Technique made his lifespan pass away even slower than time.

He was, after all, the founding ancestor of Snow Country.

He was, after all, an existence who had once directly confronted world-class heroes like Tang Yu.

Three thousand eight hundred years later, in the territory of Snow Country, he still displayed top-level derivation of Dao ruling force!

At this moment, he used two fingers to catch the knife formed by cause and effect and firmly moved it away.

Thus, he could look at Xu Wang without any obstruction.

"What is Zhen doing?" Hong Junyan said in a deep voice, "Even if Yun Nian comes, Zhen will expel him. What is the surname of the contemporary Qin Emperor, why not personally conquer? To take over Zhen's snow domain, are you, Xu Wang, alone enough?"

Fu Huan transmitted the key intelligence of these three thousand eight hundred years, all of which spread out in his mind at this moment.

The terrifying information flow was quickly digested and absorbed. A strong wind arose without reason, making his snow dragon robe flutter incessantly.

The Hanchantongyaxian Array completely preserved his peak power. Along with the absorption of this key information, he was rapidly adapting to this era. He was already very strong, but still stepping towards becoming even stronger!

And his gaze, directly looking at Xu Wang's eyes, was so calm and waveless, just like those frozen times.

"Times are different now!" Under the Sky Snow Mirror in the sky, Xu Wang retracted his palm. The long cause and effect, clamped by Hong Junyan's two fingers, returned to heaven and earth.

The knife had chopped the vast Snow Country; the knife was retracted within a corner.

Then, three inches in front of him, the edge of his palm performed all cause and effect, and then it became a knife—that black Great Qin Marquis robe covered the sky and blocked the sun. For a time, only his palm knife moved in the sky, covering everything.

Causal lines could originally only be perceived, not seen with the eyes. At this moment, they were yet colorful.

It was visible how many causal lines connected Hong Junyan's entire body. Were there not less than thousands or tens of thousands? They were fundamentally uncountable!

These causal lines connected every aspect of the vast Snow Country, all stretching straight, as if piercing through Hong Junyan in general. Like thousands of fine cow hair needles, they stabbed Hong Junyan into a porcupine ball.

Xu Wang's palm knife fell down.

Those uncountable causal lines were all chopped off in this instant, drifting like silk threads. Hong Junyan again looked like a fluff ball.

The cause and effect between Xue Taizu and Snow Country were temporarily chopped open.

In this instant, Snow Country's national momentum could no longer be added to him. That is to say, facing this knife, Hong Junyan could completely only use his own power.

The Son of Heaven is outside the country, the white dragon is wearing plain clothes.

And Xu Wang was already face to face!

He wanted to test the purest combat power of Xue Taizu from three thousand eight hundred years ago. With Xu Wang's name, he would loosen the cause and effect Dao and measure the map of hegemony—and the way of judgment was life and death.

This step followed the cause to trace the fruit, crossing the long distance between Yonghan Shengfeng and Jihan City, ignoring the meaning of space and time, purely swimming at the causal level. A corner of the black Marquis robe fluttered in front of the golden dragon chair of the ancestor emperor of Snow Country.

The palm knife of the Great Qin Zheng Marquis extended straight, as if truly holding a narrow, straight knife, directly piercing Hong Junyan's heart!

And Hong Junyan indifferently lifted his hand, his palm seemingly gripping the universe.

There was a sound like a great bell ringing.

The tip of the palm knife was tightly grasped by Hong Junyan's left hand, just like this, suspended in front of his heart. There was still this one inch, which was the separation of heaven and earth, as far as the starry river.

At this moment, Hong Junyan still sat straight on the golden dragon chair. The pendant beads of the jade Pintian Crown lightly shook, making his face in Xu Wang's eyes suddenly far and suddenly near.

The black court robe of the Great Qin State Marquis and the snow-colored dragon robe of Xue Taizu were like pieces on a chessboard, clearly divided into two sides.

"From Zhen's view, this world is no different," Hong Junyan said indifferently, then brought the palm knife held in front of the throne towards his body. His right hand formed a fist and directly smashed towards Xu Wang's face.

Capture in front of the throne, fist kill the rebel.

Truly possessing the might of a founding Son of Heaven!

The might of one fist, from Xu Wang to Yonghan Shengfeng, this distant path, the entire human-shaped space, collapsed together!

In the observers' naked eyes, it was precisely this strip of road from Yonghan Shengfeng to the knife stabbing near Xu Wang's body that distorted entirely, like a suddenly appearing human-shaped tunnel.

But Xu Wang was already not visible.

He came seeking cause and effect, and also scattered into cause and effect itself.

Rumble rumble!

Above that distorted channel, a seemingly hidden, yet present, fantastic palace appeared horizontally. Great desert lone smoke, vast sea bright moon, countless scenes within it. And Xu Wang, wearing a Marquis robe, stood just above this palace. Above the black Marquis robe, unpredictable light intertwined and changed, describing him at this moment... he was the total supervisor of cause and effect, holding sole authority.

In the upper air of Taixu Pavilion, Jiang Wang's eyes were tighter than Zhong Xuan's beside him at this moment. His line of sight almost became substantial, wandering in this fantastic palace. Even the snoring, deeply sleeping Baiyunzi was awakened to observe—

This was the only still intact, perhaps at its peak, Immortal Palace in the present world, the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace!

How can you see our dynasty's Taizu? Even now, you have no qualification to see our Great Qin's Son of Heaven. That year you only watched the play from the pass. Now—continue watching the play!

Xu Wang stepped on the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, overlooking Hong Junyan: "You are right, this world is no different! That year you had no ability to step down the entire Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, which rumbled and crushed towards Hong Junyan."

At this time, he and the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace were together, seemingly hidden yet present.

He obtained the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, yet never used the Cause and Effect Immortal Technique. It wasn't that he had no way to bypass the lost technique medium and replicate that year near ancient times. It was just that he had higher aspirations—the Cause and Effect Immortal Technique was also just a kind of cause and effect. The Cause and Effect Immortal Palace was also just a handle.

He was Xu An, the total supervisor of cause and effect, not the Cause and Effect Immortal Person.

At this moment, he took over all the cause and effect of the snow plain. He was in a visible but unreachable state, yet the knife edge of cause and effect was bound to hit.

This was a true heaven-descending cause and effect knife, which could not be avoided or abandoned.

All the cause and effect connected in the dark were all fixed, becoming a prison cage locked onto the target.

Everything Hong Junyan created became Hong Junyan's shackles!

"Pity. You were fortunate enough to obtain the Immortal Palace, yet you do not respect the ancient." Facing such a knife, Hong Junyan still had time to sigh:

"Pity Zhen's Bingdong Immortal Palace is already destroyed, otherwise I should teach you, this junior... what is an Immortal Technique!"

The pendant beads of the Pintian Crown shook lightly. The entire snow plain seemed to have an earth dragon turning over, emitting a long roar from the earth.

Everything froze and then thawed.

All rules were reorganized, and cause and effect all restarted.

The emperor's command is heaven's mandate!

As a participant in the formation of the state system, as a pioneer standing at the source of the contemporary Human Dao torrent, he stood up directly from the dragon chair. His coronet robe fluttered, and he threw a fist towards the sky—

Directly breaking the 'visible but unreachable state', his fist met the Immortal Palace!

Behind him appeared the virtual shadow of the vast snow plain. His fist smashed onto the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, smashing this fantastic palace together with Xu Wang back into the thunder sea!

From this, no one could again doubt Hong Junyan's power.

He directly responded to Xu Wang's challenge, and each time approached the peak even more!

"Such a grand plan for Snow Country, how can heaven not weep blood, and gods and ghosts not be startled?" Above Silent Snow City, the first generation Dong Ya Bishop, Wei Qingpeng,

Touched his own bald head and smiled fiercely: "Your Majesty has returned to the present world, continuing hegemony. Only the strong should not be killed. This thief should be used as a sacrificial flag!"

He heavily stepped on the ice dragon beneath his feet. The ice dragon sank several zhang, wailed, and then suddenly rose again! Carrying him straight towards the thunder sea, he killed towards Xu Wang.

He shouted: "Brother Fu, when two countries go to war, what favor are you still talking about? Let's kill him together! I'll accompany you to aid Bingdong City!"

"No need, right?" At this time, a voice said.

After the constantly flipping Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, a tall and thin virtual shadow suddenly rose up.

He tied his hair with a wooden pin and wore a white mask. On the mask, in black small seal script, was written an essay that no one could read. Just like his eyes, quiet as the deep sea, yet giving people a very surging feeling.

Cloth-clothed plot country king, Wang Xixu!

He had already arrived here, were the Qin Country's great armies still far away?!

His gaze casually swept, and the ice dragon carrying Wei Qingpeng rose, then stopped in mid-air. There was a seal character in each of its two dragon eyes, exactly one "not" and one "need".

Wei Qingpeng also did not continue to torment this pitiful ice dragon. After all, it was a heterogeneous creature and not a true pure-blooded dragon clan, and could not bear too strong conflict.

He also didn't say other words. While arguing, he still wrote words—modern people are really troublesome enough.

So he leaped up, like a stone bullet thrown from a catapult, but there was only a rumble and then nothing was seen. In fact, he abruptly crashed into the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace!

This was too sudden, both in body movement and result. There was absolutely no beginning, development, turning point, or conclusion. He had already intruded into the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace and was hitting within it like a drum.

The Cause and Effect Immortal Palace rolled violently. Xu Wang turned back and entered it!

"This fellow from the same year, whether it is necessary, perhaps you don't have the say, right?" Above Zhidong City, Meng Lingxiao retracted his folded fan, but did not ride his dragon. Taking the dragon's head as stairs, he walked in the air. One step led him above the thunder sea, face to face with Wang Xixu.

Several thousand years, also during the time when Taizu and Xu Wang were fighting against each other, he gradually understood the new era and could relatively completely display his own power.

He and Wei Qingpeng both needed time to digest the differences of this new era. Although it was not like Xue Taizu, who swallowed and absorbed it in a single thought.

"Perhaps it is necessary." Wang Xixu replied calmly, "Because Bingdong City has already been taken. Additionally, we are not from the same year. There are two reasons. First, you are much older than me. Second, I am not one of you Confucian scholars. I am a fortune teller." Meng Lingxiao was not surprised by the gain and loss of Bingdong City, only saying, "Fortune teller? Every scholar who learns nothing eventually has to sell words and measure words for a living. My era was like this, I don't know if it has changed now?"

Wang Xixu actually thought for a moment: "It seems almost as you say—but as long as one can honestly and openly support oneself and one's family, it doesn't matter what one does. Being an official is not nobler than selling words."

Meng Lingxiao said again: "From the view of auspiciousness and inauspiciousness, your white base with black characters covering your face may not be very auspicious."

Wang Xixu said: "But it is very clean, written without regret."

"Whether you are clean or not, I don't know..." Meng Lingxiao had already looked for a long time, thus he lifted his hand and just like this, he flipped it: "But I think you should regret it."

Along with his palm flipping over, the entire thunder sea actually inverted!

No, the thunder sea did not invert.

It was Wang Xixu and Xu Wang, as well as Xu Wang's Cause and Effect Immortal Palace, that all became reflections, reflected in the roaring thunder sea of electric light. And their original reflections, yet stood above the thunder sea, thinner than paper.

Beside the thin reflections was the excitedly killing Wei Qingpeng—he killed into the enemy's nest, wanting to take advantage of the illness to claim a life.

Yet in this extremely short time, he was injured by Xu Wang and was covered in blood. The fresh blood ignited his killing nature. At this moment, bloodlines crawled up his bald head, and his body shape expanded by several points again.

Meng Lingxiao used his index finger to draw, then he cut open the reflections of Wang Xixu and Xu Wang.

Pulling fate in the dark.

This was also cutting fate!

But reflected in the war situation, only one piece of paper was cut into two halves, fluttering down in the thunder sea.

Meng Lingxiao clearly saw that on the two sides of the paper, there was exactly one character each, "wu" and "hui" respectively.

He had already perceived that at the instant he cut fate, the fates of Wang Xixu and Xu Wang both disappeared in the long river of fate. So his one finger cut empty.

Truly an extraordinary fortune teller, a top-level cultivator of star divination!

And Wang Xixu's reflection in the thunder sea lifted his hands, spreading his ten fingers wide, as if taking the thunder sea as a mirror, remotely facing the outside of the mirror. The seal characters on his gloves slowly flowed: "Should I regret it or not? Why don't you ask your ancestor emperor Your Majesty?"

Dense Qin seals flew out from his hands, as if deep-sea fish surfacing... and actually swimming out of the water surface.

Small seal script prophecy.

Manipulate the universe, reverse time. Past life and present life, cause and effect illusion.

Stars shift, the Great Dao is wilderness. Winter Country has regrets, the years are cold and the days are short!

Daytime ended.

Meng Lingxiao suddenly looked back!

He saw that the entire snow domain had fallen into a long night, as if also describing the curtain call of the Snow Country dynasty.

Every household in Snow Country lit lamps. The Hanchantongyaxian Array also lit up the snow plain. But the back halo of the Sky Snow Mirror was no longer bright—in that endless long night, a formation formed by starlight spread. The contemporary star formation forcibly interfered with the ancient Immortal Array!

He saw that the Hanchantongyaxian Array underwent a qualitative change. His Majesty, the ancestor emperor of Snow Country, had frost condensed on his eyebrows.

Within this peak Dao body, terrifying power was still continuously growing, a kind of cold tide covering him from the inside out—Hong Junyan was being frozen!

The powerful body that had just easily repelled the Cause and Effect Immortal Palace fell backward, falling back onto the golden dragon chair.

And dragon claws flipped out from the armrests, firmly buckling his wrists. Dragon bones pierced out from the back of the chair, crossing and locking his body. The cold tide overflowed within his body, gradually solidifying the Dao body into ice.

It was clear that Hong Junyan was already firmly imprisoned on the dragon chair and was about to return to a frozen state once again!

Meng Lingxiao turned his eyes to look towards Bingling City.

Unless there was outside intervention, it was almost impossible for an existence as strong as Hong Junyan to be suppressed like this by external forces. His golden dragon chair, the Son of Heaven's crown, and the just-revived peak Dao body, all had problems!

In the world, besides Xu Qiuxi, who else could play tricks with the Bingdong Immortal Technique?

And he indeed also saw, above Bingling City, the Winter Emperor lifted her step.

She was the coldest piece of snow in winter, a flower that did not freeze in the cold tide.

With ultimate beauty, she bloomed on the snow plain. Each step established her Dao path.

Under her feet was an ice and snow bridge. As she extended towards Jihan City, she walked towards Hong Junyan. This bridge spanned the snow plain, virtually suspended high up, refracting the sky light, flowing with rainbow colors for a time.

"Winter Emperor, what is the meaning of this?" Guan Daoquan took a step horizontally, blocking in front of the ice and snow bridge. Although he was only one person, he was like an iron-cast mountain. With his two fists open, he was a copper wall and an iron wall.

The Winter Emperor lifted her eyes and looked at him: "You have not formally joined Snow Country yet, why are you so desperate?"

Guan Daoquan's voice was like rolling stones: "This old man represents the Northwest Five Countries Alliance and has already made an agreement and become one country with True Monarch Fu Huan. This old man's two fists are now guarding his own monarch."

In the last westward expansion war of Jing Country, the Northwest Five Countries Alliance was beaten so badly they lost their helmets and abandoned their armor, losing land and people. This alliance, and Snow Country, which needed time to adapt to the new era, indeed seemed a match made in heaven, supporting the future with the past.

But making such a determination was not an easy thing. Moreover, for the Northwest Five Countries Alliance, if they wanted to become one country, was Snow Country really the best choice?

"When did this happen?" The Winter Emperor's eyes were cold with frost: "I unexpectedly did not know?"

Guan Daoquan did not conceal: "When you challenged Zhong Jing."

On Yonghan Shengfeng, Fu Huan unexpectedly spoke up to explain: "This matter is secret. At that time, only I and True Monarch Guan knew.

I didn't intentionally hide it from you.

The Winter Emperor still looked at Guan Daoquan: "At that time, you already knew Hong Junyan was going to return?"

Guan Daoquan was expressionless: "True Monarch Fu gave us the greatest sincerity."

"It seems that Jing Country's excessive oppression helped you make your determination. Also, losing blood day after day, how can a tired body endure labor?" The Winter

Emperor nodded, then said: "But the words are back. However, truly becoming one country is just a paper agreement, which can be written and also erased. You have many choices: Jing Country, Jing Country, or Qin Country. Why not wait a bit, wait for the price and sell?"

Guan Daoquan stood still.

Tie Country is not a merchant country. The character "iron" in Tie Country is the will of the Tie Country people.

Behind him, however, a voice rang out: "Zhen is curious on the contrary—who, are, you?"

It was Hong Junyan's voice!

He was clearly already an ice sculpture, already imprisoned on the throne, but his eyes yet had fire, burning inside the ice.