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"I'm going for a walk."
Having said that, she ignored everyone's gazes and walked out the door on her own.
A disciple of the Body Sect nearby muttered, "Huo Qiu'er, you're running around alone again."
His voice was not loud, but Huo Qiuer still heard it. She slightly side-eyed him and glanced at him coldly: "Do you have any objection?"
The disciple opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Long Aotian waved his hand to stop him: "Let her go. It's broad daylight now, and there's no danger in Mingdu."
Judging from his indifferent tone, he seemed to have long been accustomed to Huo Qiuer's independent behavior.
Huo Qiuer just left the room by herself, and no one followed to protect her, perhaps because they believed she didn't need protection.
……
Mingdu, on a street in the city center.
Huo Yuhao was walking on the street in the afternoon, with Tian Meng and the other three beside him. Now they had none of the aura that soul beasts should have, and were no different from ordinary people.
"Bingbing, try this."
Tianmeng handed the half-eaten snack in her hand to Bingdi with a happy look on her face.
In the past, Bingdi would have impatiently told her to get lost, but now she didn't refuse. Instead, she took it and put it in her mouth and chewed it gently.
"It's a bit sweet." Bingdi commented calmly.
"Wouldn't it be better if it's a little sweeter?"
A trace of melancholy appeared on Bingdi's pretty face. "Speaking of which, in the extreme cold of the north, almost all food has no taste. I don't think I have ever tasted anything sweet in my memory."
Tian Meng said with some regret: "Really? Bingbing, it's a pity for you... I have eaten a lot of very sweet things in the Far North."
Bingdi raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "What sweet food have you eaten in the Far North?"
Tian Meng said as a matter of course: "Ten thousand years of cold marrow."
Bingdi: "You..."
She was so angry that she was speechless. She suddenly wanted to curse, but she held back and reached out to knock Tianmeng hard on the forehead.
“It hurts, Bingbing, why did you hit me…” Tian Meng looked aggrieved.
Bingdi said viciously: "I told you not to show off."
Seeing Tian Meng and Bing Di playing on the street after a long time, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but feel emotional.
After he came to Mingdu, he rarely had such leisurely wandering days.
The Sun-Moon Academy was almost completely isolated from the outside world. Although he often went out of the academy after training, it was always at night and it was not as lively as it was now.
Snow Queen stood beside him, looking at the scene of Mingdu in front of him with a calm gaze. Although he could also observe it in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, he never felt as down-to-earth as he did now.
Huo Yuhao said: "Xue Di, I thought that with your personality, you would not come out."
Xue Di asked back, "May I understand your meaning as, do you think I'm afraid to show my true face?"
“No, you misunderstood me.” Huo Yuhao smiled.
Xue Di glanced at the busy streets around him and asked, "I heard from Bing'er that you guys often hang out like this before?"
Huo Yuhao said helplessly: "I used to do it often when I was in Shrek, but later it gradually disappeared. I had no choice but to practice, so I didn't have that much leisure time."
Xue Di said: "That's really a pity. I think Bing'er and Tian Meng seem very happy."
Huo Yuhao said calmly: "It's a pity that happiness is a luxury."
"Luxury? I think Tianmeng seems to be so happy all the time."
“…It’s a blessing to be able to be silly and happy, because I don’t have so many worries.” Huo Yuhao sighed.
Hearing Bingdi and Tianmeng talking about the Far North, a glimmer flashed in Xuedi's eyes and he fell silent.
Without Xue Di saying anything, Huo Yuhao began to scan the streets, investigating the streets and traffic patterns of Mingdu with meticulous mental detection.
This place is not too far from the imperial city, but it is a civilian area, mostly populated by civilians, with occasionally a few low-level soul mentors.
Judging from the appearance of the city alone, Mingdu and Xingluo Tianhun Shilaike are completely different in style.
"Wuwuwu... Sister Xue'er, Yuhao, Bingbing is bullying me again..."
Tianmeng started to cry again.
Xue Di asked with interest: "Why did she bully you?"
"You're making me so angry." The Ice Emperor snorted, "If I had been allowed to absorb so much ten-thousand-year cold marrow, I might have been able to break through the true million-year mark and achieve godhood."
Upon hearing this, the usually calm Xue Di actually lost her mind. After a long while, she spoke, "Bing'er, achieving godhood is not that easy."
Bingdi was stunned and asked, "Xue'er, why?"
Snow Queen said in a low voice: "Once in the Far North, there was a powerful million-year soul beast, but it failed when it tried to break through the million-year heavenly tribulation."
Tian Meng and Bing Di were both surprised and asked, "Why haven't I heard of this?"
"That happened too long ago, so long ago that you, Bing'er, were not even born yet. Tianmeng might still be sleeping in the ice cave. I am probably the only one who still remembers the Far North."
Huo Yuhao frowned: "What if it succeeds in breaking through a million years?"
The Snow Queen said leisurely, "Perhaps it can achieve the position of the Ice God. The people of the Far North have always believed in the Ice God and claim to be the descendants of the Ice God, but no one has ever seen the Ice God send down an oracle. Perhaps its position is waiting for a creature in the Far North to inherit it."
Huo Yuhao said: "But it failed."
"Of course. Its calamity is not something that Tianmeng could dodge by trickery. It is so powerful that even I feel scared even though I am a hundred kilometers away. Maybe it is the pressure from God."
"It eventually fell under a heavenly calamity. Some creatures in the Far North said that it attempted to become an Ice God itself and blasphemed the real Ice God, so it was punished."
Bingdi listened in fascination: "Xue'er, even I am hearing about this for the first time."
Xue Di was about to continue speaking, but paused. Together with Huo Yuhao, the four of them looked forward at the same time.
Huo Qiuer, whom he had just met in the morning, was walking towards Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao immediately showed a vigilant look.
Huo Qiu'er didn't care, but stopped in front of him: "We meet again."
Huo Yuhao didn't want to ask questions like who the other person was anymore. He was thinking about whether he could find some way to capture and interrogate this mysterious person who claimed to be his cousin.
But it’s not a good idea to do that in public now.
Huo Qiuer looked towards Huo Yuhao, with a smile on her lips, and there was a hint of inexplicable calmness, as if she could see through Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao didn't like this feeling.
At this time, Tian Meng pointed at Huo Qiu'er and spoke first: "Who are you, this strange woman? What is your purpose in getting close to Yu Hao?"
Huo Qiuer was suddenly stunned, staring straight at Tian Meng. The two men, one tall and one short, looked at each other.
Then Huo Qiuer made an incredible move.
She raised her right hand, wiped the corner of her mouth with the back of her right hand, and then made an obvious sucking motion.
Tian Meng suddenly became weak, and the finger that was pointing at Huo Qiu'er also bent. In her eyes, this action was inexplicably terrifying.
Huo Yuhao looked puzzled.
Is she... swallowing?
Huo Qiu'er quickly returned to normal and said, "Yuhao, why don't you introduce them? These people are..."
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes and immediately came up with an idea: "Since you are my cousin, then you must know these people, right?"
Huo Qiuer paused and replied, "I heard in the Duke's Mansion that these two should be cousins Tianmeng and Bing'er, right? Hello, I am Yuhao's cousin, my name is Huo Qiuer."
"Oh? Then who am I?"
A cold voice suddenly sounded, and Huo Qiuer suddenly felt a chill all over her body. She slowly turned her gaze to the cold and arrogant woman with a light blue color in her white hair standing next to Huo Yuhao.
Xue Di said slowly: "Why don't I remember Yu Hao and your cousin?"
Huo Qiuer's face was gloomy, and the smile and calmness on her face disappeared instantly.
She quickly flipped through the memories in her mind, with only one question in her mind.
Who is this mysterious and powerful man?
Chapter 317 I Know You Too Well
Huo Qiuer stood straight where she was, looking at Xue Di with a look of deep alertness.
She dared to say that she knew almost everything about Huo Yuhao, including Tian Meng and Bing Di who were beside him, and knew where they came from.
On the surface, they are harmless humans, but in reality they are powerful soul beasts with cultivation levels far exceeding 100,000 years.
Even the mysterious gray figure living in Huo Yuhao's body, Huo Qiuer knew the origin very well.
She had enough confidence to dare to approach Huo Yuhao alone, even though the other party would never trust her easily.
She knew Huo Yuhao too well. She knew his character, his past, and everything about him. She could even tell what he might think next with just a little guess. This was one of the reasons why she was so fearless.
Facing Huo Yuhao, she acted extremely calm, but when facing Xue Di this moment, her calmness disappeared.
Who is she?
Huo Qiuer quickly flipped through her memories. She was sure that this person was not by her side the last time she met Huo Yuhao.
This person? Or... not a person?
Huo Qiu'er quickly regained her composure and asked, "Who is this sister...?"
Xue Di replied: "I am also Yu Hao's cousin, my name is Huo Xueer."
"Since you are also Yuhao's cousin, how could you not know who I am?"
Xue Di's tone was neither hurried nor slow.
Huo Qiuer forced a smile: "It's Sister Xue'er. I've been to the Duke of White Tiger's Mansion before, but they didn't seem to tell me about you. Could it be that you, like me, have just met Yuhao?"
She couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. She could have relied on the information gap to maintain a half-true and half-false identity, but now she could basically be judged as fake by Huo Yuhao.
If she really wanted to pretend to be Huo Yuhao's cousin, she should have denied the existence of Tianmeng and Bingdi, but the information about the two in her memory made Huo Qiuer subconsciously acknowledge their existence.
But it was very suspicious that he only knew the two of them and didn't know the woman in front of him.
At first, Huo Qiuer didn't care, because the aura of Xue Di was no different from that of ordinary humans, but once she looked into her deep eyes, it was as if she saw a ferocious beast from ancient wilderness.