This was the first time that Yan Zining had learned about the Yan family's predicament so intuitively, and she had indeed heard that the relationship between the Yan family and the other two of the three major immortal cultivation families in Ocean City was very poor, but she didn't expect it to be so extreme.

She had a slight understanding of her father's thoughts, but resented the forced intermarriage. She didn't hesitate to think: "Even if the Jin family and the Li family are ruthless, they can't be so compromised, and they can't sacrifice their old mother to make a living......"

She puffed out her cheeks slightly, put herself in her father's point of view, and found that there was indeed no good way to do it except to make peace. Although the Yan family is strong, it is not strong enough to resist the clamping of the two families and turn a blind eye.

Yan Zining shook her head in distress, feeling that the game of these superiors was really head-headed, and it was extremely boring, so it was better to eat a fish cake. She carefully folded her eldest brother's letter, put it back in the envelope, then turned over and sat up, taking a piece of kamaboko out of the bag.

Somewhat happy to receive the letter from her eldest brother, she grabbed the bag of kamaboko and walked to the front door. Squeak open the door, and the sunlight shining through is as golden and dazzling as the kamaboko in your hand. Squinted, walked out of the door, closed it casually, and Yan Zining walked in the Yan family's mansion with a hint of excitement.

Throwing the golden piece into his mouth, Yan Zining hummed a small tune that did not form a song, turned a corner briskly, and did not forget to casually watch the flowery roadside, and then walked straight towards the gate of Yan's house.

But apparently the heavens did not kindly let Yan Zining's good mood continue, and as soon as he turned around from the rockery of the gray rockery, he met a young man with a pale face and abnormal flushing on his cheeks.

It was Yan Zining's second brother Yan Zhonghe. Yan Zhonghe raised his eyes to catch a glimpse of Yan Zining, whose cheeks were bulging and chewing on pastries, a glimmer of light flashed under his eyes, which was a cold light that looked at his prey like a vulture. Yan Zhonghe looked at Yan Zining condescendingly, with a look of mockery and disdain in his eyes without restraint.

Yan Zining's heart tightened by the second brother's gaze, but she still stubbornly looked up at Yan Zhonghe. She gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "Second brother is good." With that, she bit her lip tightly to keep her tears from flowing.

Yan Zhonghe sneered, and the words he said were harsh and indifferent: "It turns out that you still know that I am your second brother, there is no respect for the elder and the young, and I don't know the etiquette if I commit the following crimes." Do you know how much effort I put into getting you married to the son of the Jin family? ”

Yan Zining raised her head in astonishment and asked in surprise, "Let the old man ...... The person I married with the Jin family is the second brother? "Yes, how could I not have thought of it, Yan Zining thought sadly in her heart, as long as she marries outside, no one will snatch the inheritance of the family with her second brother.

"That's right, it's me." Yan Zhonghe didn't know when he took out a paper fan, shook it gently, and said sarcastically: "Originally, if you were obedient, not only would the family be spared and regain its strength, but there would be no bad things behind, but now it's a good ......" He shook his head and sighed.

Yan Zining clenched her fists tightly and said in a loud voice—she felt that if she didn't do that, she would cry on the spot—and said, "Old ...... I do not know. Dare to ask the second brother, I don't know what kind of 'bad thing' can make the family so entangled? ”

Yan Zhonghe shook the paper fan and said unkindly: "The next martial arts competition between families is about to start, this time, the Jin family and the Li family have a big plan, and they have forcefully set the highest reward of the martial arts competition as a large piece of the family industry. ”

He shook his head and said mockingly to whom: "If the younger generation of the Jin family and the Li family wins, the two of them will share the reward this time equally, this is a conspiracy against the Yan family, no, it should be a conspiracy." ”

Yan Zhonghe stared at Yan Zining tightly and continued: "If it fails this time, it will be even worse for the entire Yan family. And the eldest brother is not there, and there is no character in the younger generation of the Yan family who can carry the banner alone, which is the opposite of the situation of the geniuses of the Jin and Li families. ”

He yawned and said, "This is the Yan family's harsh winter. There's nothing we can do to stop you, and if you hadn't refused to marry, you could have gotten through this unscathed. Therefore, to atone for your sins, you must make great efforts in this martial arts competition, otherwise, what will happen to the end, I should not need to say? ”

After speaking, Yan Zhonghe shook his fan and gloated away from Yan Zining, leaving only Yan Zining standing in place. Yan Zining stayed like this, and a strange thought suddenly appeared in her heart: The second brother didn't seem to care much about this matter? Why, if she loses, he will inherit the Yan family?

……

In the Cold Star Mountains, in an ancient forest deep in the depths. A rapid gasp sounded, followed by a sword light as cold as autumn. The sword light was pale as jade, and like a silver moon shadow cast at night.

The white sword light flashed away, and then a fierce wind suddenly rose, and a piercing sonic boom resounded through the sky, and the storm brought by the extraordinary speed blew the trees into bending, and the squeaks sounded, and the leaves fell like a spring rain that suddenly stopped.

There was a faint figure on the sword light. The milky white light rose in front of him, suddenly bright and then dim, shielding the figure on the sword light from the wind and the sawdust and stones. The light mask was hit with ripples, like the surface of a lake where the stones sank after drifting in the water as a child.

This sword light flowed by, followed by several sword lights. The colorful sword light illuminated the forest hidden in the shadow of the trees. On each sword light, there was a human figure, and the sword light slashed, and the trees in front of it fell with a bang, splashing a cloud of dust and dirt.

If you look closely at the fallen trees, the incisions are crisp and smooth, and you can even reflect the luster. The figures on the sword light were all panicked, not like they were in a hurry, but as if they were fleeing, being chased by some kind of creature.

They're really being hunted down. Behind these people, countless figures chased after each other. If you look closer, it turned out to be a spirit beast, a black panther with blue eyes like a spirit animal, and a white tiger like a spirit beast with yellow light shining with yellow light on its body.

At the end of them, there was a black gore with obsidian black fur all over his body, hard and thick skin like gray leather on his chest, and two eyes that looked like orbs made of black jade, especially on his hands, which were covered with gray-black, solid, crusted and cracked rocks. The rocks on the giant ape's hands wrap around the hands, as if they have expanded the volume of the whole hands, and they are the thickest at the bottom, extending all the way up, getting thinner and thinner, until finally only small stones are attached to the arms.

This spirit beast is called the Rock Giant Aperone, and it is chasing after the sword light at this time, but it is extremely fast, not slower than the sword light.