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That swaying heavy snow fell for two whole days, but it couldn't affect anything in Lingxi.

On the morning of the third day, when the morning sun woke up, I saw a verdant green outside the window, full of vitality.The white snow that used to fly all night disappeared without a trace, together with the dream.She was sitting by the window trying to recall the dream at night, but was interrupted by Chao Yu's voice.Chaoyang looked sideways, and saw Chaoyu lift the bead curtain at the door and walk in.

"Yang, did you know that Brother Chao Li is getting married." Chao Yu said as he walked.

"Get married? When?" Upon hearing the news, Chaoyang woke up immediately, and Chaoli's always smiling cheek appeared in front of her eyes.

Since childhood, Chaoyang has been with His Royal Highness Chaoyu, and rarely has contact with his eldest brother who is also a young monarch, but he always takes him as an example.

Chaoyang always looks up at everything in Chaoli.

His excellent knowledge, superb swordsmanship, and... beautiful love.

She thought, if she couldn't have the same spiritual power as Chao Yu, at least... she could become a person like Big Brother.

"Just... in the early spring." Chao Yu thought for a while and said.

"Parents agree?"

"Is there anything you disagree with?" Seeing Chaoyang making a fuss, Chaoyu said. "The one he wants to marry is the daughter of the spiritual priest's family."

"Spiritual sacrifice?" Chaoyang was startled when he heard these three words, and said after a while. "Not... Lan Ruo?"

"Lan Ruo? How is it possible..." If Chao Yang hadn't mentioned it, Chao Yu would have forgotten the name. "It's not that you don't know how much the young master's status can be improved by obtaining a woman with spiritual power. If the young master's wife gives birth to a child with spiritual power, then the young master may also become the owner of the valley..."

"How is it impossible? Brother Li likes Lan Ruo very much, this is something that everyone in Lingxigu knows. Besides... Lan Ruo just told me... They already have..."

"Lan Ruo is just a maid...Even if Brother Li likes her... how can he marry her?" Seeing Chao Yang's serious face, Chao Yu explained. "She is the maid who takes care of Brother Li. Brother Li has always had her by his side. It's normal to like her...but..."

"Just to have a child with spiritual power, in order to become the owner of the valley... Do you want to marry a spirit priest? The owner of the valley... is that good... Did your father force him?"

"Father didn't... Brother Li told Dad himself..."

"Impossible." If Chaoyang was calm just now, she couldn't sit still now. "Impossible. I'll ask him...I...I'll ask him!"

"Chaoyang!" Before Chaoyu finished speaking, Chaoyang jumped up from the bed and ran out, and she hurriedly followed behind, talking as she went. "This... this idiot...!"

Chaoyang was really an idiot. At night, he was punished to kneel in the courtyard of Lingxi City.Standing in the thick night, Chao Yu saw her kneeling straight.

"I told you not to go..." After watching for a long time, Chao Yu approached Chao Yang and put a coat on her. "Even if you go... nothing will change, the elder brother will still take the priest's daughter..."

However, although everything was a foregone conclusion, Chaoyang couldn't let it go, she looked at the deep night in front of her, and said for a while.

"why?"

"Why..." Chao Yu murmured and repeated her words, before speaking for a while. "Even if you ask me why..."

"Brother... why did it become like this?"

"Maybe... Brother Li hasn't changed, he's always been like this."

"Always..." After listening to Chao Yu's words, Chao Yang only felt a pain in his heart, and the world in front of him was unsatisfactorily blurred again. "You mean... big brother... has always been like this? He has sacrificed other people's lives... his own love and future... and even more things...he has been using those who love Your own person...to achieve your own goals...He, has always been this kind of person?"

"Everyone has the most important things to themselves. Some people, or things. When these things conflict, if you want to achieve the same thing, you have to give up other things. I can only say that Lan Ruo is not the most important thing to Brother Li Yes, but did not deny Brother Li’s feelings. Human nature is like this, why should he be different towards Li?” Although Zhao Yu said so, he embraced the kneeling Chaoyang in his arms, covering her blurred world . "Yang, sometimes, the world you see is far from the real world... We can't change others... But we can keep ourselves, think about it this way...Actually, it's not too much. Bad, isn't it?"

"I won't..." Chaoyang buried his head in Chaoyu's arms, sobbing.Chao Yu listened to her seriously. "I will never do such a thing! I will never become that kind of person! Absolutely...!"

"En." Hearing what Chaoyang said, Chaoyu smiled. "I know you won't."

Chaoyang did not go to the grand engagement in early spring.Together with Lan Ruo, she hid by the stream in Lingxi Valley and listened to the wind in a daze.

Lan Ruo saw Chaoyang cat gently lying on her slightly raised belly, and she didn't know what she was listening to.

"Why doesn't Young Master Yang go today, but stay here with your slaves?" After a while, Lan Ruo asked.

"Because I don't want to leave you here alone." Chaoyang said.

"Young Master... Even if Lan Ruo stays here, nothing will happen." Lan Ruo smiled. "The baby in my womb is facing the gravel, how can I be willing to let it go with me?"

When he heard the baby twice, Chaoyang was startled again, and asked after a long time.

"Do you... hate Big Brother?"

"How could I hate him?" Lan Ruo said. "I haven't had time to love him with my life, how can I hate him..."

"I don't understand." After a while, Chaoyang sat up straight and said. "I don't understand what Lan Ruo you said at all."

"Is that because Young Master Yang doesn't have someone he likes yet? If he has one, he will understand." Lan Ruo said so, then closed her eyes and listened to the wind in the mountains, before she spoke for a long time. "It's so lively... I can even hear His Highness Zhao Yu's laughter."

"Can you...can you hear?" Chaoyang asked.

"Ah."

"Can you hear the sound... so far away?"

"Yes." Lan Ruo replied gently. "I remember the day when His Royal Highness Chao Yu was born... the day was six hours longer, there was no night, and the whole day was bright and majestic. This kind of spectacle is not inferior to the time His Highness Chao Yu was born... the people of Lingxi City are delighted The sound was like ocean waves, one after another, which made me sleepless all night."

"But, I'm not a shield." Hearing what Lan Ruo said, Chaoyang smiled. "Let everyone... be happy for nothing."

"What does it matter? Isn't Young Master Yang living happily?"

"En." Chaoyang smiled, but then said in surprise as if thinking of something. "Since you can hear the sound from such a distance...does it prove that you, Lan Ruo, also have spiritual power?"

"Maybe." Lan Ruo replied.

"Did you tell Chaoli?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because... I thought that he would love me more than a woman with spiritual power." Lan Ruo replied, and then showed a cold smile. "But I lost."

Chaoyang originally thought that Lan Ruo was delicate and soft, but when he heard such an answer, he found that this woman was also surprisingly stubborn.

However, the turmoil of Chaoli's marriage hadn't spread wildly, but it was suppressed by another bigger matter.That is, the royal family of Pan Dynasty, the largest country around Lingxi, is about to come to Lingxi.

On the surface, Chaoxie only said that the Pan Dynasty royal family came to sacrifice to the immortals.In fact, only he knows that Pan Chao has been looking for a way to get to Lingxi, but they somehow found the entrance of Lingxi.If he refused Pan Chao's visit, it would give Pan Chao a reason to attack Lingxi.If a war really starts at that time, Chao Yu, who is not yet sixteen, will have no way to open the shield covering Lingxi.

"Xie..." Seeing that Chaoxie had not slept for several days, Mrs. Gu said worriedly. "Perhaps, Pan Chao just really wanted to come to offer sacrifices to the immortals?"

"This is the best." Chao Xie said. "But we also have to prepare for the worst."

"I was wondering if it's time for Xiao Yu to open her shield." After a long time, Mrs. Gu said.

"She's not yet sixteen." Chao Xie frowned. "Not to mention whether her spiritual power is sufficient, whether she can open the shield... as for her body..."

"Didn't you say that you have to plan for the best and the worst." Mrs. Gu said. "Xiaoyu herself knows that she exists to protect Lingxi."

"But……"

"Xie, let's try it first." Seeing that Chao Xie was frowning, Mrs. Gu's wife hugged him from behind and said. "If Xiaoyu can't bear it, we... can only rely on the strength of the priests."

Chao Yu didn't know why, but was suddenly recalled to the original school.Chaoyang went back with her, only to find that the teacher's teaching method had also changed.From beginning to end, this lesson has nothing to do with me.

In the long and trivial narration, what Chaoyang heard most was only two words.

That is... to open the shield.

The way to open the shield is very complicated, Chaoyang listened carefully, afraid of missing something.She looked worriedly at Chao Yu who was sitting upright in front of her, but unexpectedly... that person was dozing off again.

dead……

Never repent!

Chaoyang was furious, and tore off the last page of the book to smash Chaoyu's head, but unexpectedly, as soon as Chaoyu raised his hand, he grabbed the ball of paper.Seeing Chao Yu flatten the ball of paper, she smiled back to herself.

"Sister, I don't want you to be punished by the master again."

"I know... I know I still don't study hard!" Zhao Yang looked down at the book while being watched by Chao Yu's smiling eyes.

She thought, Xiao Yu has really grown up now.

"Study hard, will my sister cook delicious pastries for me?" She turned her head, bringing her face into Chaoyang's line of sight, and said.

"Read it carefully, I will think about it." Chaoyang said without going over.

"Will you feed me?" Chao Yu also followed and continued to ask.

"Do you want me to feed you?" Seeing that Zhao Yu was completely ignoring his lecture, the master asked coldly behind her.

"No...no need." Chao Yu felt a trace of cold sweat streaming down his head, and turned around quickly.

The strict lectures lasted only seven days, and Chaoyang Chaoyu was taken to the highest peak of Lingxi Valley.Chaoyang saw that everyone was there, his parents, and... all the priests in Lingxi City.

"Mother, why are there so many people here?" Chao Yang was stopped by Mrs. Gu and stood aside, and could only watch Chao Yu standing in the center of the sacrifice from a distance.

"Everyone came to see Xiao Yu's first shield opening." Mrs. Gu replied.

"But the book says...the shield...can't be opened until you're 16 years old." Hearing Mrs. Gu's words, Chaoyang became anxious. "It's impossible for Xiaoyu to unfold..."

"Can we, we all have to try, don't we?"

"But...why can't we wait until she..."

Mrs. Gu didn't pay attention to Chaoyang's words, she just quietly looked at the daughter who had started to seal.

Chaoyang saw that Chao Yu's seal gestures were very complicated, and there was no deviation from the ones in the book. She was still muttering mantras while seal seals.Zhao Yang stared at her lips carefully, and saw that her lips were beautifully shaped, and even the mantra was full of words.

The bright sky is mixed with the early summer breeze, but nothing can dispel the tense and secretive depression on the mountain peak.Chaoyang just stared at Chaoyu in a daze, until her palms were sweating, only to see Chaoyu finally suspended her hands up and down, she opened her blood red eyes to the sky, as if holding a round roared like a shield.

"Open the shield!!!!"