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It was January, and the cold wind was blowing. All living things withered, and the beasts and birds fell into silence. Sky blue air, tree silver snow.

On the Greenwood Continent, in the Valley of Brook's Ring, the Eternal Mountain Range.

It was a huge valley surrounded by eight tall mountains. There was a large lake in the middle of the valley. For some reason, the lake did not freeze even in the middle of winter. In the center of the lake, there was a three-hundred-acre island. On the island, there was a giant green tree that reached into the clouds and connected the heaven and earth.

A few miles from the island's waterway, a broken raft was slowly approaching.

This was a very simple and crude raft. The raft was made from many tree branches that were connected together and fixed in place by vines and hemp ropes. On the raft, which was woven from tree branches, there were a few patches of goatskin with dried yellow hair.

In the middle and back part of the raft, there was a young man wearing beast skin clothes, doing his best to paddle the water. Perhaps it was because they had been paddling for more than an hour, but the young man's breathing was a little heavy, and the steam that was rising from his body and his breathing had already dyed the young man's eyelashes white.

"Clang clang!"

A few loud and clear cries resounded throughout the entire valley. A large purple bird, more than five feet in length and less than six feet in length, flew from the sky. Between the bird's claws was a basket made of tree vines. Inside the basket was a pile of pastries and a few pieces of dried meat. The giant bird gently placed the basket on the raft's head and slowly landed beside the youth.

The youth looked at the basket filled with pastries and dried meat. He stopped his paddling and scratched his frozen head in confusion. "Lil Violet, was it mother who asked you to come?"

The giant bird tilted its head as it sized up the youth. Then, it looked at the direction behind the youth and nodded. It then used its sharp beak to slowly comb through the feathers between its wings.

Carefully looking back, he could vaguely see a few figures standing about ten miles away from the lake, and they seemed to be blocked by the rising water vapor from the lake's surface. Looking carefully, other than a few snowflakes that would occasionally fall down, there seemed to be nothing else.

At the same time, there were three girls wearing fur coats on the lakeside. They were looking at the young man who had paused for a moment because of the giant bird's arrival, before starting to row again.

"Big sis, Little Que went to the island again." One of them, a girl with an oval face and a gentle demeanor, said to the other girl who was standing by the lake two steps in front of her. The three girls were famous figures at that time, so the ten li of misty lake water naturally wouldn't hinder their eyesight.

The girl standing by the lake crossed her hands behind her back, turned her face to the side slightly, and nodded slightly. Although the white fur coat she wore was simple and crude, it could not hide her peerless elegance and graceful bearing.

"The winter this year is colder than usual. Although the island is a little warmer, but I think it's very hard to bear it at night. Little Que didn't even get a bed and quilt." Another lady in a black robe said.

"In the middle of autumn, Que had shipped some dry wood to the island. I guess it couldn't have been frozen." The white-clothed woman turned around and said. The weather is cold, the music is cheerful, and the clouds are clear. Let's go back and make some tea to warm our bodies. "

"Alright, it's been a while since we've tasted elder sister's brewed tea. Back then, the four of us were in the academy cooking tea and discussing green sheep, and we chatted for an entire night." The beautiful middle-aged woman called Jieyun said while grinning. Although she had a smile on her face, it was hard to hide her heroic spirit when she opened and closed her eyes.

"That's right, it's a pity that Fourth Bro married into the Mirror Lake very early. Otherwise, when winter fell, we sisters would take out a small stove and have a pot of tea and discuss the Dao. It would be extremely enjoyable." The girl called Le Yi also nodded in agreement. As she spoke, she gently stroked a snow-white beaver in her arms.

With that, the three of them walked towards the village behind them. When they reached the village entrance, the woman in white glanced at the lake again. Seeing that the boy's raft was already close to the island, she secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"Lil Violet, why hasn't Big Violet come this time?" Seeing that he was still more than ten meters away from the island, the teenager stopped rowing and let the raft move forward slowly. He stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked the big purple bird on the bow of the boat.

"Clang! Clang!" The large bird stopped combing the tail feathers and glanced at the youth. It gave a loud cry and flapped its wings. It flew into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The corner of the young man's mouth twitched a few times. He helplessly shook his head and leaped. He jumped over the one meter distance left and landed on the island with both feet.

The boy took a piece of hemp rope from the raft, circled a bluestone on the edge of the island twice, secured the raft, picked up the basket and, humming an unknown tune, headed for the island.

After walking a few kilometers, he saw a white figure leaping back and forth from the dense branches of the enormous green tree. It was fast and agile.

"Lil 'White, I've come to see you again." The youth looked at the tiny white figure and said with a smile.

"Meow." The white silhouette jumped on a tree branch and did a beautiful somersault in the air before landing firmly on the young man's shoulder. This was a strange animal with white fur and black stripes like a cat or a tiger. Although it looked like a cat, it looked almost exactly like a tiger. However, the 'King' pattern on its forehead was slightly smaller than that of a tiger. Although it looked like a tiger, it had the size of a kitten and was only the size of an adult's forearm. Despite its small size, it was actually the king of this valley. Even if it was called the top of the continent's top ten danger zones, the Unreturning Mountain Range was still one of the top existences.

When they had just arrived at the valley, they had wanted to land on the island. As soon as the raft arrived at the center of the lake, they saw a kitten-like creature appear on the island, lightly patting the surface of the lake, and a huge wave appeared out of nowhere. The dozen or so rafts, as well as the hundred over people on the raft, were all slapped back onto the shore. From then on, they had given up on trying to get a foothold on the island.

He spent half a month secretly building a raft, wanting to go to the island to have a look. Unexpectedly, not long after, two huge shadows appeared in the lake, wanting to knock the raft over. Just at this moment, a loud roar came from the island, and the huge shadow in the lake, as if it had met its nemesis, dove into the depths of the lake.

From then on, Lu Que found out that this was an extremely rare beast. It was the Imperial Spirit Beast that controlled all the spirits in the world. It had to be known that all life in this world, the purest and most kind when alive, and also with the love of the world, died. Under the effects of the laws of the world, there was a certain chance that after death, a spirit would form and not enter the underworld, and that it would jump out of the cycle of reincarnation. Although the spirit creature was not a spirit body, it was the head of the Myriad Souls.

Even in some ancient legends, the first Human Emperor Flame Emperor of the human race had once observed a spirit beast and gained enlightenment of the Dao, and had even passed down the teachings of the human race and the human race's civilization that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.

As for why the spirit beast only allowed him to travel on the island, Lu Que had no idea. Lu Que was fourteen years old this year, and this spirit beast had only been born a dozen years ago, still in its infancy. According to the records of the 'Secret History of the Greenwood Tree', at the same time, there existed only one spirit beast. Only after the death or disappearance of the first spirit beast would the next one be born.

Therefore, Lu Que thought that it was because this beast was about the same age as him and also because it was lonely and lonely, that it could get so close to him.

At dusk, there was a small mountain not far from the green tree. Lu Que and Lil 'White were sitting facing each other in a cave at the foot of the mountain. Not far away from Lu Que, there was a bonfire that had just been built. The fire was not very strong. Lu Que was holding a piece of wood in his left hand and a finger long knife in his right hand. He was facing Little White, who was sitting like a little kitten, and was carving something. Before long, the image of a fist-sized kitten slowly took shape in Lu Que's hands.

This was one of Lu Que's necessary homework and was also Whitey's requirement. Every time Lu Que landed on the island, Little White would ask Lu Que to carve a wooden or stone sculpture according to his appearance and place it in this cave. More than seven years had passed, and within the cave, there were already a few dozen, big and small, spirit protection wood sculptures and stone sculptures. In the beginning, he could only vaguely make out that it was a wooden sculpture of a cat type creature. But now, even the hair patterns were lifelike. This was the result of Lu Que's seven years of hard work.

As for his homework, he had to start from four hundred years ago. Four hundred years ago, at the end of the Great Xuan Empire, the twenty-four year old Great Xuan Emperor suddenly died. When he was still alive, he did not leave behind any sons, and all the clan and vassal lords attacked each other for the position of Emperor. This continued for more than ten years, and finally caused the huge empire, which had unified the eastern part of the continent, to collapse.

The dukes had been fighting against each other for a full 180 years. Until two hundred years ago, the king and the crown prince of a small country called Yu Guo died on the battlefield. His daughter, Yu Wang, ascended the throne, and a female emperor appeared out of nowhere. Yu Wangshu ascended the throne at the age of eighteen, ascended the throne at the age of twenty-eight, and changed the country's name.

The female emperor, who reigned for forty-eight years, broke through to the Sheng Domain at the age of seventy-six, allowing her son, the pure Emperor Yu Zhenghong of the High School, to return to Taiji Palace.

The Female Emperors' Dynasty was the most prosperous period in the history of the entire human race within the Greenwood Flame Clan. It wasn't just because the Female Emperor destroyed countries and took their martial arts books to comb out one hundred and eight sets of cultivation techniques, nor was it because the Female Emperor placed these cultivation techniques in the nine great universities of the empire for the Empire's students to study. It was because of a single discovery. The famous officials, notable marshals, and everyone else from that time, when they were compiling the《 Complete Collection of Martial Arts》, they discovered that among the great powers that had broken through to the Saint realm, there would always be one or more well-known hobbies, such as dancing, singing, music, calligraphy, calligraphy, or painting, or even carving and carving.

Thus, the female emperor gathered all the arts in the empire and studied them together. Finally, she came to the conclusion that the art of art originated from nature, was compatible with nature, and complemented and complemented martial arts.

From then on, the pursuit of art by the people became the most sought after in the short span of a hundred years. The music, dance, poetry, literary works, and hundreds of other works all surpassed any of the previous dynasties. This resulted in the dynasties coming and going of all countries, and also created the majestic and prosperous era that lasted for many generations, the unparalleled fame of the glorious and resplendent dynasties.

"Little White, come and see if my carving technique has improved." After less than an hour, Lu Que finished carving and placed the completed work in front of Yu LingXiaobai. Then he carefully returned the over ten inscriptions knives of different shapes and sizes back into one of the leather bags. He rolled up the leather bag and tied it with hemp rope, casually forming a flower knot.

Lil 'White, the Imperial Spirit Beast, turned around a few times beside the recently completed wooden sculpture and nodded its head in satisfaction. Just as he bent down to pick up the newly created item and place it beside the other sculptures, his ears suddenly twitched. He raised his head and sniffed the air, and with a "meow" sound, his body shot out like an arrow.

In the cave, Lu Que was shocked into sitting on the ground by Whitey's roar and his ears buzzed. He rested for a while before he recovered. When he saw that there was no trace of Little White outside, he quickly stood up and ran out of the cave. He carefully examined the messy paw prints on the snow and chased after them.

After running for about a quarter of an hour, Lu Que saw Little White circling around something in circles. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be a person. Just as he was about to run over, he saw a mass of purple gas flickering behind the man. The purple gas appeared and disappeared. He quickly took light steps and walked over.

It turned out that Lu Que was looking at a Heavenly Mirage Grass. Traces of purple Qi were rising from its stem and leaves, but they were congealing at a distance of about half a foot from the stem and leaves, not dissipating at all. Speaking of which, the Heaven Illusion Grass was also an extremely rare treasure. As long as one could smell that purple gas, they would be able to make people fall asleep. The Heavenly Illusion Grass, which was over a hundred years old, could make people hallucinate. Moreover, the Heavenly Fantasy Grass also had another characteristic, that when it met with danger, it could instantly release the purple gas surrounding the stem and leaves, and in the blink of an eye, it could fill up the surrounding hundred meters of space, causing it to have a defensive effect. This was the reason why Lu Que was so careful.

Moreover, Lu Que knew that the Heavenly Illusion Grass definitely had a Purple Tattooed Panther. In this world, other than those legendary Holy Beasts that would rarely show themselves for thousands and thousands of years, as well as the innately nurtured Little White, only the Violet Tattooed Panther was not affected by the heavenly miasma. It was also because of this that every time the Violet Tattooed Panther encountered a fierce beast that it could not defeat, it would lure its opponent to the vicinity of the Heavenly Mirage Grass and use the purple miasma of the Heavenly Mirage Grass to stun it and kill it.

Therefore, to the Violet Tattooed Panther, every stalk of Heavenly Mirage Grass was a treasure that it had to protect with its life. Moreover, Lu Que had long known that this Heavenly Mirage Grass was guarded by a Purple Tattooed Panther. A few years ago, if not for Little White, the spirit beast beside him, he would have long since become the thing inside that giant leopard's stomach.

Sure enough, dozens of meters behind the Heavenly Mirage Grass, beside a withered vine, a leopard with white fur and purple stripes that was more than two meters long was lying there. Seeing Lu Que walking in the direction of the Heavenly Mirage Grass, the leopard slightly bent its body as it made a threatening sound. Lu Que looked at the leopard and laughed. He didn't seem to care and continued walking in the direction of the man. Seeing Lu Que ignoring its threat, the Purple Tattooed Panther gave a low growl. All the hair on its body stood up and its tail was raised high, ready to attack.

Right at this moment, a white shadow flashed by and the Violet Tattooed Panther's body, which was only a quarter of the size of the Violet Tattooed Panther, appeared in front of the Violet Tattooed Panther in an instant. It swatted the face of the panther with its paw, making it roll on the ground for a few times as it ran away with its tail between its legs. After running for a few hundred meters, it dared to look behind it.

Lu Que looked at the Purple Tattooed Panther in the distance and knew that Little White did not go all out. He had only given it a lesson. Then, he saw the extremely human-like complacent expression of the adonis and could not help but laugh out loud. "I know you're amazing. In this mountain of no return, we, Whitey, are the emperor, alright?"

Hearing Lu Que's voice, Lil 'White turned its eyes and became even more pleased with itself. It lifted its head, puffed up its chest, and walked over proudly with small steps.

When Lu Que got closer, he saw a girl lying on the side. She looked to be three or four years older than him. Her skin was snow-white, but it was hard to conceal her beauty between her brows. His hair was jet-black and dense, but it was somewhat messy. In between his hair were a few golden hairpins, he wore a plain petticoat, with a gold jade belt embroidered around his waist. On the belt was a ring-shaped carving of a phoenix, on the outside, he wore a white fox fur coat, and embroidered light boots.

The girl was also holding a long sword in her right hand. The sword was not unsheathed, so it was hard to tell what material was used to forge it. Next to the sword sheath, there was a sculpture of a round city.

After staring blankly for a while, Lu Que seemed to recover from his shock. He let out a long sigh and shook his head in a self-deprecating manner. He quickly walked over and held the girl's right hand as he tried to take her pulse.

"Fortunately, I didn't inhale that much miasma. I should be able to wake up after a few hours of sleep. "It's just that my body seems to be a little tired and needs some time to recuperate." Lu Que murmured as he felt his pulse. His tone seemed to be uncertain. Although Lu Que had studied the acupuncture and stone meridians, this was his first time using them on someone else. Therefore, he was not confident in his own judgement.

Lu Que raised his head and looked at the sky. The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated the sky as layers of black clouds gathered. It should be snowing heavily tonight, so we should wait until the snow stops tomorrow before sending her back so that Aunt Su can have a look. " As he spoke, a gust of cold wind blew over, causing Lu Que to shrink back. He quickly carried the girl back to the cave.