On the top of the mountain, a young man was staring intently at the bright moon hanging high in the sky, and his eyes became more and more gentle in the eyes that gathered many tears.

But for some reason, the young man suddenly narrowed his eyes, and the moment the tears landed, his eyes suddenly became cold and sharp!

"It's been so long, haven't you shown up?"

The young man's cold words did not carry a trace of warmth, and as the words fell, wisps of blue phantoms quietly appeared, and after a while, they turned into a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl!

The girl wore a blue dress, her long delicate black hair was waist-length, her long eyelashes trembled in the wind under the curved willow eyebrows, her white skin was as white as jade, and her petite and delicate body was accompanied by an incomprehensible charm and magic.

Although she is young, she has a thrilling beauty, and she can't imagine how gorgeous and peerless the girl will become after a few years.

"It's ironic, demon, can you shed tears?"

Bowing his head slightly, looking at the uninvited guest in the moonlight, Jian Ying's heart sank.

Obviously, she is also a spiritual cultivator, and judging from the frost aura that has been condensed around her, her strength is set above herself!

However, after taking a closer look at the girl's delicate face, Jian Ying's expression became extremely complicated, as if it was a little unbelievable.

She didn't care about the stunned gaze of the sword shadow, the girl just looked at the barren land on the other side of the mountain from a distance, and her clear and bright eyes revealed a touch of affection, but when she turned her eyes to the sword shadow on the side, that affection turned into a strong resentment and incomprehensible complex emotions, and gradually, she fell into deep thought.

"Daddy, don't beat Ying'er, Ying'er will compensate Erniang for a while, beg Daddy not to beat Ying'er again. ”

The girl's screams alarmed the neighbors of the village, who gradually gathered around the door to discuss.

"Hey, this kid is so pitiful, why don't we go in..."The old man who couldn't bear the girl's abuse took a step forward, but before he finished speaking, a word of obstruction came out.

"Hey, Uncle Li, Cheng Jing's daughter is a monster! What do you persuade, it's good to be killed, you see that there was a problem in the ice altar on the day she was born, how many people died..."

As if dissatisfied with this person's answer, I saw the old man frowning, pursing his lips slightly, and bending his waist slightly.

Then, the old man raised his arm and hammered it to his thigh, arguing angrily, "How can the natural disaster of the year be counted on a newborn female doll?!"

"Natural disaster?old Li Tou, her daughter is a monster, the whole village knows it, why are you still protecting her?"

"Also, a few days after she was born, her mother suffered from a strange disease, her body became colder and colder day by day, and finally froze to death, oops, I was cautious when I thought about it, who doesn't know about this, she deserved to be killed, and it would be too peaceful to die. ”

At a young age, she was already completely skinless, and there were bruises and bruises everywhere, which made her heart ache.

With tears in her eyes, the girl looked at the crowd beggingly, but no one came up to stop her.

Helpless, she had no choice but to clench her teeth and let the whip whip hit her.

"How can Lao Tzu have a monster daughter like you, even if you kill your mother, what kind of demon law has you cast on your second mother now!"

The man slapped the girl on the ground so hard that it seemed that it was not his daughter who had been beaten, but just a brute.

Seeing the young girl being beaten like this, the unbearable old Li Tou rushed forward and stopped, "Cheng Jing, stop beating the child, she is still so young, she may have some physical illness, take her to a bigger village to see." ”

Hearing this, the man's movements in his hand gradually stopped, and he smiled strangely and said, "Is it sick?" Old Li Tou, look at how much blood she has shed, nothing is wrong at all, and then take a closer look at the rotten wounds, which heals faster than the white wood wolf in the glazed snow mountain, this is not a monster?!"

Cheng Jing's words made Lao Li Tou speechless, even if he wanted to make some more excuses for the girl, but the wound on her body that had healed as before, but all the words became so pale and weak.

Whip after whip, even if he fainted in pain, he would be woken up by Cheng Jing pouring cold water, and then another inhuman abuse.

At this time, the whole village was only the sound of whipping and the screams of the girl, and this small mountain village on the border of the country of snow and the country of soldiers was more indifferent than the wind and snow.

Gradually, the wind picked up, and a few snowflakes mixed in the wind were quietly scattered everywhere in the village.

"Huh, it's snowing, it's rare..."

In the face of the falling snowflakes, people all looked up at this uncommon scene, and even Cheng Jing, who kept whipping his daughter, unconsciously stopped his hand movements, and he seemed to have an unspeakable injury with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth.

In fact, Snow Country is not a snowy capital.

At that time, the disaster was monstrous and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and most of the strangers in order to repay Xue Mingzi, they took this as the name and gradually developed into the seventh country.

In addition, it is located on the border of the land of soldiers in all seasons, and it is indeed rare to see such a thing as snow.

Perhaps numb to the pain, the girl didn't make a sound anymore, she just quietly looked at the snowflakes scattered on the ground, and the tears seemed to become gentle.

"It's weird, why is it snowing all of a sudden, according to common sense, it's rare for us to see it here. ”

For a long time, a village name looked at the falling snowflakes and thought.

As soon as the words fell, the woman on the side tapped her head, her expression frightened.

"I remember, didn't it snow when there was an accident in the ice arena, you said this..."

For a moment, everyone's eyes were once again focused on the poor girl, and in despair, she gently closed her eyes, as if to say her final goodbye to this indifferent world.

Seeing Cheng Jing who was about to raise his hand to whip the child again, Lao Li Tou complained, "What does the snow have to do with this child, you, hey..."

The helpless sigh did not stop the suspicion and rejection of the villagers, let alone the faded leather whip in Cheng Jing's hand.

Gently raising her head and looking at the old man who had been defending herself for a long time, the girl said timidly, "Grandpa Li, Ying'er is a monster, monsters will only bring disasters, maybe after Ying'er dies, there will be no more disasters..."

A poignant smile, but with indescribable pain, it is unimaginable that this is what a little ignorant girl can express.

"Kill this monster, kill her..."

The clamor of the clamor completely shredded the last illusion in the girl's heart, and she looked at the unmelted snowflakes in her palms and smiled silently.

Obviously, Cheng Jing also had murderous intentions for this daughter, and with the help of the villagers, he took out the broadsword from his arms during hunting, and the sharp gaze was also locked on the girl, indeed, she was an excellent hunter.

Seeing this scene, many of the villagers who were very excited laughed, but Lao Li Tou turned around silently and wiped his tears.

However, at the moment when Cheng Jing lifted the knife and slashed it, he only heard the sound of "Bang!" The broadsword in his hand fell to the ground at some point.

"Ahh

A terrifying scream sounded, and at this time, Cheng Jing's hand was wrapped in a dark flame for some reason, and seeing this strange situation, he hurriedly stuffed it into a bucket on the side, trying to eliminate the flames.

But the strange thing is that the flame did not go out in the water, but became more vigorous, looking at the flame that was about to spread to the forearm, Cheng Jing, who was sitting on the ground, hurriedly picked up the broadsword on the side, and immediately slashed it towards his left hand!

Blood splattered everywhere, and the sudden change made the onlookers think confusedly, and they just looked at the girl lying on the ground with a dull face, and then looked at the charred black palm that fell to the ground and was still burning.

When they came back to their senses, everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them, and there was undisguised panic in their eyes.

Perhaps it was the weakness of his legs caused by the fright, and no one left, and behind the crowd, only a young man had a slight increase in the corners of his mouth and a cold smile......

The girl didn't know what was going on, when she saw her father with a painful and angry face, she should have collapsed and motionless on the ground, and out of nowhere she poured out of strength to kneel beside Cheng Jing, and with her hoarse excuse sounded, she was teary-eyed, still holding Cheng Jing's trouser leg tightly with her little bruised hands.

"It's really not me, it's not..."

"Damn, I killed you!"

Pain, anger, and humiliation, Cheng Jing, whose eyes were full of blood, picked up the bench on the side and smashed it the girl's forehead, and the blood splashed out instantly stained the ground red.

didn't stop there, Cheng Jing actually raised his foot and stepped on the girl's head fiercely, as if he was still angry, and then raised his hand to grab her hair and slammed it towards the ground, making a dull impact sound.

The violence lasted for a long time, and then Cheng Jing took a breath and roared angrily, "Don't play dead for Lao Tzu! In the future, you will be like a dog, eating on your stomach, sleeping on your stomach, dare me to see you get up..."

The excessive blood loss had caused his face to begin to turn pale, and Cheng Jing did not finish his words, so he gritted his teeth and returned to the house.

"Bang!"

The heavy sound of the door closing woke up the villagers in a daze, and even though their legs were soft and boneless, they all dragged their bodies and fled quickly.

When the crowd dispersed, Lao Li looked at the blood on the ground, and tears oozed from the wrinkled corners of his eyes again

He took a few steps forward and heard a "rattle" like the ice cracking.

At this point, he looked back and accidentally found the blood splattered around the girl, which had frozen into ice before he knew it.

Without thinking too much, Lao Li took off his clothes and covered her blood-covered head.

Then he picked up the girl and walked towards a barren place outside the village, as if intending to bury her.

"Daddy, it's really not Ying'er, it's not..."

A faint voice sounded, so frightened that Lao Li's hands trembled, and a spirit almost threw the child in his arms out.

After swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva, he took off the sackcloth wrapped around the girl's head, but this phenomenon in front of him actually made Lao Li's legs weak and knelt directly on the ground!

Looking at the girl in her arms again, the wounds on her head and face had healed, and even the marks of the beating just now were gone.

Staring at the frightened old man, the girl's eyes darkened again.

She wanted to break free from the old man's arms, but because her body was too weak, she no longer had any strength.

Looking at the intact child in his arms, Lao Li Tou kissed her pale little face, and said, "I'm scared to death child, if you don't dislike it, you will live with my old guy in the future, although the old man doesn't have much money, but at least he won't let you be bullied." ”

The eyes that flashed with tears were full of disbelief, and it wasn't until a long time later that the girl said with a lost face, "Grandpa Li, you see, I'm a monster, I..."

"What a monster, silly boy, although I don't know what's going on with the old man, but one thing, you're definitely not a monster!"

Without waiting for the girl to finish speaking, Lao Li Tou opened his mouth to refute, and this remark also made the girl in the laughing girl shed hot tears.

The first time, the first time was tears of happiness, after being rejected by the children of the whole village, disgusted by the adults of the whole village, and tormented by her own father so far, she finally waited for a person who did not dislike herself and treated herself as a normal child.

She vaguely remembered this feeling when she was a child, but all she gave herself after that was endless pain and suffering.

Reliving this feeling of happiness again, she was panicked and didn't know how to express it, but she just nodded slightly.

"The old man has a granddaughter..."

Walking slowly on the field road, Lao Li Tou hugged the child in his arms tightly, and looked down at her smiling face in her sleep from time to time, as if he had eaten honey.

I don't know how long later, Lao Li Tou returned home, and there was only a bed that was not spacious, a broken wooden basin, two dishes and chopsticks, and some remnants of porridge in the iron pot that had been repaired many times.

Bending down to pick up some dry firewood, Lao Li Tou lit some straw with flint and steel and began to heat the porridge in the pot, and soon, the smell of porridge paste filled the whole room.

"Child, you are hungry, get up and I'll feed you some porridge. ”

"Hmm..."

Hearing this, I saw the girl trembling out of bed, but the next scene surprised Lao Litou.

I saw the girl kneeling on the ground, licking the bowl of hot porridge in her hand with her little pink tongue.

Coming back from his astonishment, Lao Li stammered and asked, "Child, you... What are you doing here?!"

Although she was very greedy for the taste of porridge, the girl still raised her fair little face for the first time, and responded with some fear, "Dad said to let Ying'er be like a dog, otherwise, Daddy will kill me..."

Hearing the girl's answer, Lao Li Tou was silent for a long time, but just picked her up and hugged her tightly in his arms......

............

Facing the sad girl in front of her for some reason, Jian Ying said, "I really didn't expect you to survive." ”

The traces of tears have long since formed transparent ice crystals, the girl stroked her cheeks, the sadness in her eyes flashed, and she sneered, "What, I'm still alive, you seem to be very unhappy?"

"Of course be happy, because you live, if you live..."

Suddenly, the sword shadow jumped next to the woman, and for her who did not resist, she quickly grabbed the soft little hand, and the moment it was touched, the cold chill invaded the blood, as if grasping a piece of thousand-year-old ice!

Looking down at the frosted palm, the sword shadow said in a deep voice, "That book in the ice altar, sure enough, you took it away..."

"A year ago, I also went there to see it, but I found something terrifying to me, the ice rock that should have been sealed was all shattered, and even you, who passed out on the ground at that time, mysteriously disappeared..."

Hearing this, the corners of the girl's mouth raised slightly, and her tone was still indifferent, "Heh, to be honest, I should thank you, if you hadn't extracted my blood and dripped it on the Ice Heart in the depths of the Ice Altar, I wouldn't have been able to dissolve the Ice Heart to get this bloodline." ”

"Since there was no food, and the exit of the ice altar was blocked by you, I had to start practicing some of the tips in this book, and before I knew it, I actually adapted to it. ”

"With the charge of aura, I who survived tenaciously in the bitter cold will always vent my hatred for you with the nameless grass on the side!" The cold words became even more penetrating, and it seemed that this girl was afraid that she was no longer in the sky with the sword shadow.

"However, my strength is shallow, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to break the ice wall, so I look forward to it every day..."

"I hope that someone will come here to rescue me, and I hope that one day, I will be able to seek revenge on you!"

With that, the chill in Cheng Ying's eyes eased slightly, and she suddenly laughed.

This smile was like an ice lotus blooming, and it was beautiful, although Jian Ying knew that she was here to seek revenge, but she couldn't help but lose her mind slightly.

"Maybe it's providence, but I don't know how long it took for someone to break through the ice rock and break into this place and rescue me. ”

"Should it be said that it was too coincidental or fate, the person who rescued me was actually the current lord of our Snow Country, Yin Fengxue, who brought me back to Ice and Snow City..."

"For..."

The question I wanted to seek stopped in my throat, and I looked at the useless expression of the sword shadow, and tried my best to keep calm, and it was completely ignited because of this!

"The reincarnation of good and evil will eventually be rewarded, Sword Shadow, everything you did to me in the past, today I want you to pay for it with blood!" was full of resentment in the loud shout, and as the words fell, the girl's body gradually overflowed with blue light energy, setting off a biting cold wind.

"yes, there's just something I need to confirm..."

Seeing that there was no room for anything to say, the acquiescing sword shadow slowly got up, and there was a faint gray aura surging on his body.

On the top of the mountain, young men and girls confronted each other motionlessly, if ordinary people saw it, they would definitely think that it was two children frolicking, but if there were spiritual cultivators passing by, they could find at a glance that there was a spiritual battle between life and death hidden in the illusion of frolic!

Carefully observing the light blue aura that overflowed from the girl's body, the sword shadow frowned, and his body couldn't help but start trembling!

At this time, if it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that it would have been frozen, but with the warmth of the aura, the gray flame formed a protective circle beside the sword shadow to resist the cold.

"Frost Condensation!"

With a cold drink from the girl, the cold air absorbed the moisture in the air, and instantly turned into wind and snow covering the body of the sword shadow, and condensed sharply at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, the sword shadow who couldn't dodge tried to break free, but his body was as if it was frozen, and he couldn't use any strength, and after a while, it turned into an ice sculpture.

"I really didn't expect it to be so vulnerable!"

Facing the sword shadow that he didn't even have the ability to dodge, the disdain in Cheng Ying's eyes was very strong.

"Quack..."

As soon as the sarcastic words fell, the ice sculpture began to slowly crack, making a constant rattling sound......

Seeing this scene, Cheng Ying deftly jumped back, and cut her fingers with the intensification of the aura, and the wound was magically healed after only a drop of blood flowed out, until the blood slipped into the palm of her hand, she smiled weirdly and walked to the ice sculpture in an instant, and slapped it hard at the rupture.

It seems that some special ability has been triggered, and the ice sculpture that broke before has gradually hardened, and the continuous accumulation of cold air has turned the ice sculpture into a huge ice coffin!

"I see, this special cold will cause different levels of frostbite to the internal organs according to the frostbite they are subjected to..."

"Damn, I have no room to fight back..."

Feeling the cold qi that roamed wantonly in his body, Sword Shadow analyzed the characteristics of this bloodline power.

"Gather!" raised his delicate and white arm, and the cold air flowing in the air seemed to be controlled towards Cheng Ying's palm, and gradually formed a thin sheet of ice.

Looking at the thin ice in her hand, a flash of relief flashed in Cheng Ying's bright eyes, and then she raised her hand and waved it out.

I saw that as soon as the ice chips touched the surface of the ice coffin, they had already blended into it, and then, Cheng Ying's already fair little face became even paler.

"Ice Raid!"

With Cheng Ying's loud shout, the thin ice that was integrated into the ice coffin was actually divided into two, and the two turned into four and kept splitting, until the end, like dozens of flying knives constantly eating away at the weak body of the sword shadow.

In just a few seconds, blood soaked every part of the ice coffin, and from a distance, it was like a natural giant pigeon blood crystal!

Looking at the blood-stained ice coffin, Cheng Ying, who condensed the only remaining spiritual energy into an ice edge, muttered, "I don't know when I started to like this crystal clear ice edge, for others, this extremely cold temperature will frostbite the body, but in my hands, it is like sunshine, making me feel warm physically and mentally..."

The charming smile gradually froze, followed by a cold self-deprecation.

"Unfortunately, the ice is always monotonous and colorless..."

"Fortunately, when I find blood stained red and cold, it becomes extremely dazzling, and the beautiful picture is as mesmerizing as a dream..."

"But even so, ice is still just ice, without any thoughts, after all, it is lifeless..."

When all the aura was used up, Cheng Ying sat weakly on the frost-covered grass, she gently leaned against the boulder, looking up at the starry sky, but there was no trace of joy in her eyes.

"It seems that you want me to experience the feeling of running out of blood back then..."

"What?!"

The stretched nerves tensed again, and hearing this weak voice, Cheng Ying opened her eyes wide and looked at the melting ice coffin, but because she had no aura, she could only watch the ice coffin melt but was powerless to stop it.

Soon after, the ice coffin completely melted into a pool of blood, and the sword shadow could barely stand up.

At this time, the sword shadow's whole body was covered with blood, which looked very terrifying, and due to excessive blood loss, he had to sit cross-legged on the ground, using the characteristics of the dark attribute aura to heal the wound that was still bleeding.

With his eyes slightly closed, the aura absorbed between his snorts was being repaired in an orderly manner, and gradually, the sword shadow's body no longer trembled, and his bloodless face also surged with a hint of ruddy.

"Hmph, what about pranayama to stop bleeding?"

"Most of the blood in your body has already been lost, and with that weak aura, it can only last for twenty minutes at most, even if you kill me, after twenty minutes, you will still die from excessive blood loss!"

Looking at the sword shadow that was gradually recovering his physical strength, Cheng Ying, who was calm on the surface and flustered in his heart, had no choice but to make sarcastic remarks, hoping to distract him and take the opportunity to be counterattacked, but the result was unsatisfactory.

"Damn, now I don't even have the strength to walk, and the recovery speed of the aura is really slow..."

Facing the sword shadow that ignored her, Cheng Ying looked a little irritable, her left hand gently wiped the jade bracelet on her right wrist, and a trace of struggle flashed in her eyes.

As time passed, the sword shadow's breathing gradually became rhythmic, and even the flames that had dimmed beside him formed a film again, protecting the whole body.

With a painful snort, the sword shadow's eyes also became attentive, and when he saw the girl opposite who also began to breathe, he smiled intriguingly and walked towards him.

"You... You can't kill me, I'm here with the mentor of the Qingfeng Spirit Academy, and I'm here to find a spirit with a spiritual root on the orders of the Lord of the Kingdom!"

Looking at the sword shadow that was getting closer and closer to him, Cheng Ying shouted.

"Mentor, looking for a spirit with a spiritual root?"

Hearing this, the sword shadow, who was puzzled by this, frowned and thought about it.

Facing the sword shadow that stopped, Cheng Ying thought that his words had shocked him, and said again with a sigh of relief, "Yes, I came with Teacher Bai Li, and the main purpose of this time is to select people who are ten to eighteen years old and have spiritual roots, because only when they reach this age, can they enter the Qingfeng Spirit Academy for further study." ”

"Also, if something happens to me here, the teacher will be able to sense it instantly, plus I am a person chosen by the lord of the country, if there is any accident here, everyone here will be buried at that time!"

Cheng Ying's words were undisguised, and the latter words were obviously a bit exaggerated, after all, this remote nameless mountain village also belonged to part of the Snow Country, although the economy here was very scarce, but the gold coins handed over every year could also supply some needs.

At the same time, the aura in the sword shadow's body was about to be exhausted, and the negative effects of excessive blood loss gradually appeared on his body again, and his ruddy face had also turned pale, and his constantly trembling body made him look extremely painful.

"Hmph, it looks like we're almost at the limit..."

Facing the sword shadow that was already unstable, Cheng Ying muttered in her heart.

After a long time, Cheng Ying's body also regained some aura, and gradually formed a layer of frost to cover her body......