Chapter 2645: A Man and a Woman Alone

In Jiang Anan's aesthetic, the most handsome man in the world is the one who stumbled forward with her, "Jiang Under the Maple." After that comes her Fifth Brother, Zhao Rucheng, and the rest are just the rest.

The most beautiful woman in the world is "Blue Rain on the Clouds," whom she guessed must be incredibly beautiful even when she was still writing letters in Fenglin City.

Later, when she met the real person, she realized she was beyond imagination. At that time, little Anan in Fenglin City's fantasy of beauty was still too limited, not enough to concretely represent "beauty."

Inheriting the appearance advantages of the former Jing Country's number one beauty, Luqiu Chaolu, and the eternal hero, Ye Lingxiao, Ye Qingyu's appearance could be called an absolute peak of the time.

That scene of "Tearing the sky to see Cloud City, a nine-heaven fairy stepping into the human world," while not deeply felt at the time of parting, became her eternal image of beauty in later years.

Her Brother, who repeatedly cautioned her to "play less with her," Huang Sheri, privately compiled a "List of Absolute Beauties," which he kept in Wanhua Palace and rarely showed to others. Sister Qingyu was, of course, on the list, and had the title of a fairy.

There was also the flawless Night Lan Er, and the snowy Yan Li Fengyao... In Huang Sheri's opinion, they were all "supreme absolute products" with no distinction between them.

But in Jiang Anan's view, no other beauty could be compared to Sister Qingyu.

Only a fleeting glimpse outside Fenglin City in her childhood would make her slightly hesitate.

Compared to Sister Qingyu's ethereal, otherworldly beauty, that was a beauty that would twist all the threads of the mundane world into chaos, an extremely aggressive beauty.

It had been many years since they last met!

Why would she come to the Snow Plain?

Jiang Anan walked outside with her head down. She had come to experience the vicissitudes of life, to gain worldly experience, and to practice righteousness, not to reminisce about her childhood.

The tragedy of Fenglin City had already been properly buried by her brother. Her brother never mentioned that person again, so she should not mention her either.

The death of the world hero, Gu Shiyi, had opened a new path for cultivators in the world. Her trip was not only for her own cultivation, but also to respond for "Yi God."

Do not interfere...

She had already walked to the end of the long street. Dressed like a rugged Snow Plain man, with thick fur boots and a cloth-wrapped sword, Jiang Anan suddenly turned back.

The wind and snow pervading the long street were lightly pushed aside by her. She exhaled a frosty breath and walked back to the only tea house in Aurora City with large strides, muttering to herself in a rough voice, "In this awful weather, nothing can be done - I'll sit for a while longer, old man."

Experience was the Old Jiang family's ability to establish themselves, playing with sounds was just a small trick.

She raised her voice again and shouted, "Serve another pot of hot tea!"

Aurora City was located in the Yu Xin teaching district, "Male Pass locks the Moon, worries the Golden Crow, husband's horizontal sword at Heaven Gate," right at the foot of the Jitian Que mountain range. It was named after the "Aurora" that could be seen here every December.

This city was basically the end of ordinary people's footsteps in the Snow Plain. As the Snow Country became part of Li Country and the Snow Plain was fully opened up, this special city attracted quite a few tourists.

However, with the launch of the Mo family's new series of weapons, "Deng Feng," it was no longer impossible for ordinary people to adventure in the Jitian Que mountain range. The name "end of ordinary people's footsteps" for Aurora City might not last too long.

After all, when the Mo family launched their "Luan Gong," the "Deng Feng weapons" that ordinary people could operate, their slogan was "Anyone can ascend 'Everlasting Holy Winter Peak,' a toast to Fu Huan!"

If there were no longer ordinary people, and everyone could conquer Everlasting Holy Winter Peak, what limits would Aurora City have?

When that day truly arrived, the Mo family's influence would be unimaginable.

In fact, the rapid expansion of the Mo family in Yong Country had already alerted Ba Country. Various powerful states sent out recruitment orders to their giant cities at the same time, recruiting Mo disciples into their national systems. Qin Mo, Chu Mo, Jing Mo, etc., were all developing rapidly.

The Mo family's grand entry into Li Country also counted as a strong alliance. The former wanted to secure the momentum of a prominent school that was about to fall, to have more freedom of speech. The latter wanted to fight for a name of hegemony, and then to ask to be crowned in the human world.

It was said that after Qian Jinhua died, the Mo family became even more prosperous. People of the time all said, "The harm has been removed."

The coming and going of sallow-faced men did not affect the noise inside the tea house.

In Aurora City, where there were liquor houses everywhere, this tea house named "Star Luo" only did business around December. Usually, its door was sparse. Snow Plain people loved alcohol as life, but not many drank tea.

Her gaze swept over the corner where the flame bloomed like a flower. The serene and solitary figure sitting there gradually overlapped with her memory... Under the guidance of the tea doctor to an elegant seat, Jiang Anan sat down as if nothing had happened.

In front of the red furnace, tea was brewing, and the flames were just rising. Jiang Xiaoxia stared at the snow outside the window in surprise, seemingly lost in thought, but her ears were perked up. The celestial ear technique taught by her brother allowed her to hear in all directions while seated.

The people inside the tea house were still chatting about various things. Laughter and chatter, people came and went. The woman in the corner just sat there quietly, looking at the fire in the clay furnace. The tea water boiled several times, but she didn't drink a single cup. It gurgled, without getting a response.

Red fire burns the furnace, water boils, water clears. Several times, how like the human world.

Jiang Anan suddenly felt lonely.

No matter how busy she was before, no matter what the situation, her brother would rush to Cloud Country every New Year's Eve to spend it with her. Except for truly unavoidable circumstances like the battle to conquer Xia or the fall of the demon world, her brother never broke his promise.

This was her first solo long journey. This year was the first year of her journey of ten thousand li, and having made up her mind to go out, she could not abandon it halfway and call her brother to pick her up and take her back to Cloud Country or Star Moon Plain.

Although she missed home very much, she had to endure it.

In the beginning, when her brother fell into the demon world, hiding in the red makeup mirror, enduring hardship time and time again, trying again and again. What kind of concern was it, what kind of persistence did he rely on, to find an opportunity and complete a feat that had no precedent?

People always go far away, and only then can they understand those who travel far.

Before, when it was New Year, she was always the one sitting at home. Now that she was walking outside, she finally had some feeling for her brother's hardships and longing in those years.

She had prepared New Year's gifts and specifically asked the official post in Jing Country to send them.

She wondered if her brother and Sister Qingyu were setting off fireworks on Hug Snow Peak.

The tea house suddenly became quiet.

Jiang Anan's eyes drooped slightly, looking at the teacup in her hand. The reflection in the water mirrored the reason for the tea house's silence.

A man wearing a teaching robe walked in, bringing with him the cold wind.

Jiang Anan had come to this city to conveniently see the aurora and also wanted to go see Everlasting Holy Winter Peak. However, since she was in Li Country's territory, it was impossible not to understand some of the important figures here. Compared to Jiang Wang's solo sword journey that year, she had a significant difference: her vision was not lower than that of any of her peers.

The youth who had traveled the countryside with his sword in the past was a confused young man who stumbled into the small town of the cultivation world. Today, the one who had left home for a long journey was the little princess of Cloud Country, the young boss of the White Jade Capital restaurant!

Jiang Wang relied on his own eyes and ears, accumulating experience little by little, illuminating each place he went to. While the absolute most intelligence in the world was unconditionally open to her, Jiang Anan.

So, of course, she recognized that the person who had just walked into the tea house was Liu Yanzhao, the bishop of the Shuang He teaching district. Within the entire Li Country, he was also considered a significant figure.

This bishop, who held a teaching district, had long been a person of the Winter Emperor faction. However, the original Winter Emperor had already become Ning Daoru, who traveled the universe. The current Xie Ai had not yet taken on the title of Winter Emperor, nor was it possible that he would include Liu Yanzhao under him.

Why would the bishop of the Shuang He teaching district come to the Yu Xin teaching district?

Jiang Anan shook the teacup, breaking the reflection in the water, and slowly drank a mouthful of hot tea.

"You say people aren't very strange? Just now I disliked it being too noisy, and now I feel... too quiet," the woman sitting in the corner said as if she had just woken up. Finally, she took the teapot from the furnace and lazily poured two cups of tea, only half full.

Liu Yanzhao just stood at the door, so the heavy hanging curtain remained, and the cold wind from outside rolled in unchecked.

"The human heart is always unsatisfied," he said.

"Since you can't be satisfied either way, comparatively speaking, I think I still prefer lively," the woman with a thin veil covering her face used her fingertip to lightly push the teacup forward and said, "Please."

Jiang Anan silently recited the "Three Treasures Calm Heart Mantra" transmitted by the Jing Li Little Saint Monk, maintaining her sobriety amidst the surging tides of the human heart.

She vaguely heard the sound of two heartbeats.

The tea house instantly became noisy again. People discussed the topics they were interested in, as if they had forgotten the cold just now, and no longer noticed the arrival of a bishop. Liu Yanzhao just walked in brazenly, bringing wind and snow, and everyone ignored him.

He walked to the woman's front, sat down but didn't touch the tea: "Madam Luo Sha, are you well?"

"Thank you for your concern, Bishop," the woman with a thin veil covering her face said, "My family's building master is doing well, and things are getting better."

Luo Sha... Bright Moon Pure Three Points Fragrance Building?

Things seemed to be getting more complicated.

The woman who had spoken outside Fenglin City that year, asking her brother to give her some time to grow, was unexpectedly a person from the Three Points Fragrance Building and held a high position that could represent Luo Sha Bright Moon Pure!

Was there also a Three Points Fragrance Building in Fenglin City in the past?

She remembered one time when her brother said he would treat them, and asked Brother Ling He and Brother Hu to pick a place. Brother Ru Cheng immediately said "Three Points Fragrance," but the word "Building" hadn't even left his mouth when her brother kicked him out.

At that time, she was still very greedy, twisting and pinching, saying things like "Anan also eats very fragrantly," and "Have a chance to eat together."

In the end, Brother Ling He stayed at home to read books and eat hot pot with her. The other brothers said they were on a mission...

What kind of cooperation was there between this Three Points Fragrance Building and Li Country?

After a few simple greetings, the voices on that side suddenly disappeared. They must have started discussing important matters.

The secret method of the heavenly ear transmitted by her brother stirred and wanted to move, but Jiang Anan forcibly suppressed it.

No matter how much she blindly trusted her brother, the person sitting here was still Jiang Anan, not Jiang Wang.

What ability did she, Jiang Anan, have to secretly spy on the dialogue of contemporary real people without being discovered?

The decision to return to the tea house was still too rash... she silently reviewed herself.

How could she, as she was now, explore a person who could confront her brother?

She decided to just taste the tea in the following time.

Suddenly feeling something was wrong, she suddenly raised her eyes. The woman with the thin gauze covering her face was already sitting opposite her. Her hat was placed flat on the table, like a large and cold seal, announcing the end of the game.

Jiang Anan suddenly turned her head. The tea house was as noisy as before, but Liu Yanzhao was no longer there.

She barely shifted her gaze a few times, pretending to look left and right, then only turned her head back.

"This... girl," Jiang Xiaoxia deliberately said, "I've already booked this elegant seat, and I don't plan to share it with anyone."

The woman looked at her quietly, her beautiful eyes dim, not speaking. But there were too many stories, waiting to be unveiled!

Jiang Anan leaned back, put her hands into her sleeves, assuming a reviewing posture, but in fact, she was already preparing to tear open the Blue Sheep Heaven Contract.

Just as Brother Sheng said, not calling her parents was her decision, and calling her parents was her ability.

She didn't want to slip away either. But she would not meet an unsolvable danger and bear it herself. She wasn't without a brother!

"Three Points Fragrance Building, Mei Yue." The woman finally spoke, but only asked, "What's your name?"

"Ye Xiao Yun," Jiang Anan said in a low voice.

Ye was Ye Xiaohua's Ye, Xiao was Ye Xiaohua's Xiao, and Yun was Cloud City's Yun.

Jiang Anan was born in Fengxi Town, learned art on Hug Snow Mountain, inherited from Ye Xiaohua, and was listed in Lingxiao Pavilion... this was her "root." It was also the reason why her brother, even after he had the ability to protect her later, didn't take her away from Lingxiao Pavilion.

The years she lived in Lingxiao Pavilion were more than the years she spent with her brother. That was already her home, and her teacher and father-like Uncle Ye were also her family early on.

That "Horizontal push through the countries, an invincible hand, the eternal hero of the human world" was no longer here. Jiang Xiaoxia of Fenglin City also wanted to use the hero's transmitted lineage and try to bear its name.

This journey all the way, punishing evil and promoting good, being cautious in words and actions, reviewing herself every moment, afraid of weakening the name of the eternal hero and embarrassing Uncle Ye. She didn't expect that one curious turn back would trap her in an uncontrollable situation.

Jianghu is dangerous!

"Mister Ye Xiao Yun." Mei Yue leisurely sat with her arms crossed, appearing elegant, and even more like mountains: "Your name is elegant, but you grew up rough."

Jiang Anan lowered her head and looked. She could see to the bottom of the table with one glance.

In front of her martial boots, which were divided and stood on two sides, the long boots of the demon woman from the Three Points Fragrance Building were hung up in a relaxed posture. There were no extra actions, but a silent invasion had already occurred.

She sat with a broad stance, while the opposite person was extremely charming.

Jiang Anan said, "Name is taken by oneself, and so is ambition. Appearance is given by heaven, and so is fate."

Mei Yue looked at her with interest: "Cabinet down ambition in idle clouds?"

"Certainly ambitious in the sky!" Jiang Anan said boldly.

"Yet you've come to the Snow Plain?"

"To see the extremes of the world."

"Yet called Xiao Yun?"

"Seeing the big through the small."

"Good, Mister Ye Xiao Yun who sees the big through the small." Mei Yue's eyes turned slightly, then became like the moon covered, appearing mysterious and dangerous: "You heard the secret between my Three Points Fragrance Building and Li Country, aren't you going to give an account?"

"I didn't deliberately listen!" Jiang Anan subconsciously said.

Then she quickly added, "I didn't hear anything!"

Mei Yue chuckled lightly, laughing until her heart swayed: "Mister Xiao Yun, I'm willing to believe you. But the people of Li Country won't believe you! That Liu Yanzhao, he originally planned to..."

She suddenly leaned closer: "Do you know how many frozen meats Li Country has?"

"Frozen meat?" Jiang Anan didn't understand.

"Just those Snow Country people who were frozen a long time ago and have been preserved until now," Mei Yue's voice was dim: "After the long period of ice sealing, many people have a conflict with their perception of reality, their spirits are inevitably imbalanced, and their bodies also undergo various changes, becoming somewhat... strange."

This woman's narration made Jiang Anan feel slightly uneasy.

"What's strange?" she asked.

"For example, the thirst blood disease," Mei Yue's eyes revealed a chilling fear, and her voice gradually lowered, as if welcoming her down some deep stone steps: "On full moon nights, they will grow sharp teeth, their fingernails will become claws, and their bodies will grow corpse spots. They often lurk in the shadows, appearing behind young people, opening their blood-filled mouths with reversed teeth... At this time, only fresh human blood can—"

"Haha! Just kidding, Mister Xiao Yun." Mei Yue sat back, restrained her smile, and elegantly sipped a mouthful of tea: "Li Country is a country with strict laws, how could this situation be allowed to happen?"

Jiang Anan, good or bad, had received top-level cultivation education of the time. How could she be afraid of ghosts or demons? But just now she was indeed a little panicked... This woman's narration could just stir up the fear in the human heart.

Involving divine power in the aspect of the human heart?

Jiang Anan guessed. Besides the lingering panic in her heart, there was also the shame of being teased.

She was the youngest of the three great heroes of Hug Snow Mountain! How could she suffer this grievance?

To ask which three are the three great heroes of Hug Snow Mountain, they are Jiang Wang, Ye Qingyu, and Jiang Anan.

She originally wanted to name the group "The Four Great Heroes of Hug Snow Mountain," but Uncle Ye disagreed no matter what. When she asked him why, he wouldn't say, only that "Three Great Heroes" sounded very good. He even instigated her one after another to change her brother's name to Ye Lingxiao. He said things like "That's not a person from Hug Snow Mountain anymore" and so on. In front of Sister Qingyu, he said, "How can I have the same name as a junior!"...

"Girl Mei Yue, if there's nothing else—" Jiang Anan looked at Mei Yue, originally planning to say 'this is my cup,' but in the end, she only said: "I will leave first. I suddenly remembered that my dog is still roasting meat at home, I have to go back and watch the fire."

Mei Yue sighed, looking very troubled: "You heard my secret, I can't just let you leave like that!"

"I'll emphasize it again, I didn't hear anything," Jiang Anan was very indignant: "I, Ye Xiao Yun, act without changing my name or surname. If I heard, I heard. If I didn't hear, I didn't hear!"

"Goodness, you, Ye Xiao Yun!" Mei Yue's willow eyebrows rose: "I've been tolerant enough towards you. You stumbled upon such a secret matter, and I didn't even think of killing you to silence you... How dare you be fierce towards me!"

Jiang Anan's eyes widened: "Where have I been fierce towards you?"

"You just said in your heart that you wanted to be fierce towards me, didn't you!"

"Ye certain has no such idea— why are you looking at me like that?"

"Oh, looking at your serious appearance, I suddenly feel a bit familiar," Mei Yue said as if casual.

Jiang Anan's heart tightened, and she tried to say calmly, "This is the first time I've seen Girl Mei Yue."

"Yes, this is the first meeting... Forget it, I'll forgive you," Mei Yue put on her hat, then stood up gracefully: "Let's go."

Jiang Anan's eyes widened even more: "Go where?"

"To your home," Mei Yue said as if it were natural: "Isn't your dog roasting meat at home? Let's go taste it together."

Jiang Anan hesitantly followed Mei Yue out of the tea house, saying hesitantly, "We don't know each other. It's not good for a lone man and a widow to go back to my residence..."

Mei Yue turned back in the wind and snow, a layer of frost also covering the thin gauze: "What can you do to me?"

Jiang Anan thought for a moment and said honestly, "I am not Girl Mei Yue's opponent."

"Hahaha..." Mei Yue, who was walking in front, laughed unrestrainedly, laughing until the flowers trembled.

It sounded like she was very happy.

But it was also inexplicable... some sad.