Chapter 227: Confronting the Saint of War

The spring rain fell, pattering softly.

It struck the black tiles, producing a ticking sound like a clock's hands being moved.

Under the eaves, Chen Lao, who was brushing his teeth, suddenly stood up.

He looked over from afar, and a trace of worry appeared on his aged face.

Temple Suppression Office?

And it's the Dao City Temple Suppression Office!

One should know that the court‑established Temple Suppression Office in Dao City not only suppresses the Guiyi Temple, but also serves to oppose the Divine Sect.

Therefore, the Dao City Temple Suppression Office is certainly not an ordinary force.

It is far beyond what Jin Guangfu City's Dao City can compare to.

It belongs to a truly colossal entity; even compared to the main line of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect, it is not far off. Though there is a gap in foundation, the divine envoys of the Temple Suppression Office dispatched by the court to Dao City are each top‑tier masters.

Inside, Zhang Ya also came out, her dark eyebrows knit, and she hurriedly ran over.

"Sir…"

Li Che raised his hand and gently patted her shoulder.

"It's fine, Lord Xie asked me for something; I'll just go take care of it."

Li Che smiled warmly.

His demeanor was gentle, showing no hint of anxiety or worry.

"As a second‑rank official of the Qin Tian Bureau, I previously joined a mission the bureau organized to observe the temple deity at the Guiyi Temple. I went along, and later the Guiyi Temple vanished… perhaps it was a coincidence."

Li Che's tone remained calm as he soothed his wife.

Xie Jing looked at Li Che's demeanor and couldn't help feeling admiration.

After all, most cultivators invited by the Temple Suppression Office feel uneasy.

For cultivators, the Temple Suppression Office is an extremely terrifying place; it is a force dedicated to dealing with the Guiyi Temple, with strong ones like clouds. Though the number of divine envoys is few, each is exceedingly powerful.

Once one enters the Temple Suppression Office, even a minor incident makes escape virtually impossible.

Li Che's composed demeanor instantly dispelled Xie Jing's doubts about him.

Before Xie Jing arrived, he had indeed doubted Li Che.

After all, there were some coincidences.

All these coincidences happened to Li Che?

Both Guiyi Temples Li Che visited to observe the temple deity mysteriously vanished, evaporating from the mortal world—how could that not spark speculation?

"Lord Xie, let's go."

"The pure are pure of themselves," Li Che said gently, his black shirt fluttering.

Xie Jing sincerely admired him and said, "Please."

After patting Zhang Ya again to assure her that she need not worry for her safety, Li Che and Xie Jing left Liuxiang Alley, boarded the carriage of the Temple Suppression Office, broke through the slanting spring rain curtain, and headed toward the Office.

Inside the carriage, a charcoal stove boiled water, the scalding liquid steeping early‑spring tender shoots; two or three emerald tea buds were tossed into the cup, and the rolling hot water unfurled them like a stretch.

The clear tea gradually took on a faint emerald hue.

Xie Jing and Li Che discussed many matters, most of which concerned events in Jin Guangfu City.

Since both came from the same prefecture city, their relationship was somewhat closer.

"The Temple Suppression Office of Jin Guangfu City will have the court dispatch a new Governor to the Eight‑Arm Prison Lotus Furious Third Prince Strange Temple. After this temple‑deity resonance, it will likely settle into a prolonged calm, but if another uprising occurs, the situation could be quite serious..."

"Perhaps then I might be reassigned back to Jin Guangfu City, who knows."

Xie Jing took a sip of tea and said with a smile.

"Oh? Does your Temple Suppression Office think the Third Prince Strange Temple of Jin Guangfu will have a major uprising?"

Li Che asked, puzzled.

"That is inevitable. The Third Prince Strange Temple, compared to the other Four Sovereign Strange Temples, emerged in a relatively short span; each Strange Temple experiences a major uprising..."

"Such an uprising… is termed 'Temple Deity Resurgence' by the Grand Overseer of the Qin Tian Bureau of Shendu, known for his divine stratagem."

"All Four Sovereign Strange Temples have undergone this; before the 'Temple Deity Ascension', the Four Sovereign Temples are not overly dangerous— even if divine corruption spreads, it remains within controllable limits."

"That is why, for the Third Prince Strange Temple, neither the Divine Sect nor the court has ever stationed strong warriors there. Yet when the 'Temple Deity Resurgence' is triggered, the temple deity revives from death, and Jin Guangfu may become the eye of the vortex..."

"By then, surely more than one Divine Embryo Great Deity or Saint of War will descend."

Xie Jing said softly.

He leaned against the carriage's soft backrest, a solemn expression flashing in his eyes.

"Moreover..."

"I think the Third Prince Strange Temple of Jin Guangfu might differ somewhat from the other Four Sovereign Strange Temples..."

"I have trained within the uncanny passages of the two Four Sovereign Strange Temples in Qian Yuan Dao City..."

"Whether it is the 【Mysterious Dao Manifest Sacred Three‑Eye True Lord】 Strange Temple suppressed by the Qian Yuan Divine Sect, or the 【Nine‑Foot Demon‑Swinging Evil‑Punishing Heavenly Canopy】 Strange Temple jointly suppressed by the Su, Zhou, Yun, and Zhong families—the four great clans..."

"None evoked the terror that the passages of the Third Prince Strange Temple brought me."

Xie Jing cradled his sword, a dazed glint appearing in his eyes.

"It was a full‑moon night; I never actually entered the passages of the Third Prince Strange Temple, but beyond the eerie mist I vaguely sensed... countless terrifying presences, as if a procession were wandering by."

"That slight leakage pressed my inner divinity and blood to a terrifying level where even circulation was impossible..."

"Truly left me in despair."

Xie Jing said softly.

"I don't know if it's an illusion, but I know… it won't be false."

Xie Jing said in a deep voice.

"But since then, I have never again witnessed anything resembling a 'Gods Parade' situation."

The Dao City Temple Suppression Office had once dispatched a grand master who had achieved unity of heaven and man to come investigate, but…… they found nothing.

They said I might be having an illusion from sword practice, but I feel I wouldn't be mistaken.

Xie Jing's voice was somewhat low.

He seemed to have forgotten Li Che's existence entirely, merely wanting to find someone to confide in.

Li Che fell into silence.

He couldn't help but recall the scene he had seen with the Star-Plucking Pupil in the strange mist earlier.

Isn't that somewhat similar to the 'gods parading the streets' that Xie Jing mentioned?

But……

Those parading the streets are not gods.

But rather……

Endless evil spirits and monsters!

Li Che did not respond to Xie Jing, and his face even showed a hint of horror and astonishment.

Mr. Xie…… your words are truly terrifying.

Li Che said.

Xie Jing stared, then gave a bitter laugh.

Master Li, just treat it as nonsense.

The carriage rumbled, spring rain crushed, pooled water split like a mirror.

The carriage arrived before the vast government office of the Temple Suppression Office in Primordial Origin Dao City.

Just like the Temple Suppression Office of Golden Light Prefecture, or rather, the Temple Suppression Offices everywhere have a similar layout, with pavilions arranged in orderly rows.

In each pavilion, many divine emissaries of the Temple Suppression Office handle documents, recording information gathered from all places.

Xie Jing led Li Che across the blue-stone-paved grand road of the Temple Suppression Office's government office.

Soon, they arrived before a towering, magnificent pavilion deep within the government office.

Master Li, please.

Li Che nodded and stepped into the building.

After Xie Jing greeted those inside the building with a clasped-fist salute, he closed the vermilion doors.

As the doors closed, it seemed as if even the light was cut off.

The building's main hall was huge and spacious, with shelf after shelf of spirit-wood-built bookcases arranged, the cases filled with numerous books.

Li Che glanced; they were all related to the Guiyi Miao.

You've come?

Suddenly, from behind a bookshelf, a middle-aged man in gray cloth robes walked out slowly.

A very refined middle-aged man, his dark, lush, vibrant hair bound with a military-style cord.

He flicked the book in his hand, blowing away the dust on it.

He warmly waved at Li Che.

You must be Master Li Che, right?

Please have a seat.

The middle-aged man said with a light smile, and there was a unique feeling of easygoing wind and calm clouds about him.

But the Dragon-Elephant Diamond Dao Fruit in Li Che's chest throbbed violently!

It was as if facing not a refined, easygoing middle-aged scholar, but an extremely terrifying qi-and-blood monster! A terrifying flesh-and-blood diamond!

Very strong, extremely powerful!

The Grand Flesh Elixir in Li Che's dantian throbbed violently, but he controlled the Dragon-Elephant Diamond Dao Fruit, keeping the speed of blood flow almost unchanged.

A Martial Saint?!

Is he a Martial Saint?!

Li Che's heart trembled incessantly.

This middle-aged scholar before him, is he a Martial Saint?!

Li Che didn't know, but being able to provoke such a reaction in him now……

Even You Liqing, who had bloomed the Three Flowers at the peak, did not have this kind of oppressive feeling.

The middle-aged scholar flipped through books, seemingly noticing Li Che's somewhat restrained attitude, a flash of unusual color passing in his eyes.

He said with a smile: 'Don't be so nervous…… I'm just here to chat with you. After all, you are a Second-Rank Guest Official of the Imperial Observatory; although not an official hired through formal court documents, strictly speaking, you can be considered a colleague of mine.'

I am one of the two Governor-Generals of Primordial Origin Dao City, Yuwen Wenlong.

Li Che sat upon that wooden grand master's chair.

Do you know that the two Guiyi Miao you visited have mysteriously disappeared?

The middle-aged scholar, while flipping through ancient texts, asked.

Although his gaze never fell upon Li Che, the intangible oppressive feeling was maximized.

Li Che shook his head.

His answer was flawless.

He believed Yuwen Wenlong could find no clues; as long as he didn't admit it, no one would know it was his doing.

Indeed, letting the Guiyi Miao disappear from the world—isn't that a tremendous good deed?

Li Che never leaves his name when doing good deeds.

The Guiyi Miao disappearing…… isn't that a good thing?

Li Che appeared honest and dutiful.

In fact, Yu Wen Wenlong's powerful divine consciousness had been locked onto Li Che all along, yet it had not detected anything unusual.

Moments later, Yu Wen Wenlong closed the ancient tome, and his gaze finally settled on Li Che.

However, Yu Wen Wenlong did not answer Li Che's question.

"Fine, Master Li, you may return first… As for the disappearance of the Guiyi Miao, Master Li was present both times; perhaps it truly was a coincidence."

Yu Wen Wenlong issued a dismissal.

Li Che stood up, clasped his fists and bowed.

"Then I wish Governor General Yu Wen a swift resolution of the case, to find the mastermind who caused the Guiyi Miao to vanish from the world."

Yu Wen Wenlong smiled faintly and gave a slight nod.

Li Che left the pavilion; Xie Jing had already been waiting outside.

He waited until the figure vanished into the misty, rainy spring scenery.

The Yu Wen Wenlong in a gray scholar's robe was the one who slowly broke eye contact.

"Li Che…"

"It's not him."

"The aura is too weak… The flesh is strong, concealing cultivation, but it's only at the post‑Master stage…"

"Moreover, the divinity lacks the aura of those two temple deities…"

Yu Wen Wenlong tapped the table lightly with his finger.

As for whether Li Che could hide his cultivation before him…

Yu Wen Wenlong smiled; having that thought is practically an insult to his own cultivation.

He opened a book, which recorded Li Che's life starting from his days as a mover in a woodcarving shop in Fēiléichéng.

"Only four short years… from a mover at a modest family's woodcarving shop in a small city, to becoming a Second‑Class Guest Minister of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?"

"Skilled in mechanism fabrication, and he bore a prodigious daughter with a thousand chi of purple aura, who entered the main lineage of the Divine Sect; in just four years, father rose by his daughter's honor, climbing from a small city to Dao City."

He fetched a wolf‑hair brush, soaked it in thick ink.

His eyes grew deep, bearing a hint of wisdom that sees through everything.

So beside Li Che's name, he slowly wrote two characters.

Ma Mian

……

……

Xie Jing escorted Li Che back to Liuxiang Alley.

"Sir Xie, do you know what cultivation level Governor General holds?"

Before parting, Li Che asked curiously.

Xie Jing laughed, "Do you perhaps feel a heavy oppression, as if everything is being seen through?"

Li Che neither affirmed nor denied, and simply nodded.

Indeed, that divine consciousness was so strong that Li Che had to use the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit, leaking a bit of qi and blood, exposing his cultivation from the early Master stage to the post‑Master stage.

"Governor General is newly advanced in the martial path… not a weak Divine Embryo Great Deity."

Xie Jing said only that cryptically.

He then took his leave.

"If the martial path can combat a divine embryo, then naturally it is a Martial Saint…" Li Che's eyes flickered.

This was his first time seeing a Martial Saint.

It was indeed terrifying; the contained energy was overwhelming, like tens of thousands of divine‑element true beings' divine pieces exploding together like a massive avalanche.

Moreover, most importantly, Yu Wen Wenlong could suppress all that energy within his body without leaking, and master it successfully.

It truly was frightening and mighty!

This was Li Che's first direct encounter with a Martial Saint; even a Martial Saint whose qi and blood were concealed in a ceasefire state gave him a chilling sensation.

"Can't defeat… simply can't defeat…"

Li Che exhaled a puff of foul breath.

"If even a newly ascended Martial Saint like Yu Wen Wenlong is so terrifying, how dreadful must Ji Mo Li, who has reached the pinnacle of the Martial Saint realm and is also a princely Divine Embryo Great Deity, be?"

A strong sense of crisis instantly shrouded Li Che's head.

Having not seen the Martial Saint is like a well frog gazing at the moon.

Seeing the Martial Saint, he realized… he had underestimated its power.

Earlier, within the mysterious palace of the Third Prince's Guiyi Miao, amid the temple gods' resonance, the Martial Saint's will that Ji Mo Li had concealed within the Ji Hai Society's bloodline was shattered, giving Li Che the illusion that a Martial Saint was no more than that.

Li Che patted his face.

"This world is dangerous; the previous well‑frog moon‑watching was not steady enough, it must be changed."

"Any enemy must be treated with grand ceremonial respect."

Glancing at the hazy spring scenery, Li Che turned and entered the courtyard.

……

……

The spring rain striking the black tiles fell like endless droplets from a leaking bronze bell, its cracking, shattering patter unceasing.

Time slowly slipped away amid the rain's blurred, broken moments.

Since that day when the Town Temple Officer took Li Che away for a fruitless investigation, Li Che no longer continued to observe the temple deities in his capacity as a Guest Minister of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

However, Li Che did not abandon his summons of the Guiyi Miao's temple deities.

After all, according to Li Che's cultivation plan, his Seven Emotions Divine Foundation wishes to transform into a Divine Form, and it is best to achieve that through summoning the temple deities.

Therefore, Li Che did not give up, but instead opened another path, choosing an extremely steady method that no one could discover.

Although Li Che no longer visited the temple deity, the Directorate of Astronomy would still organize guest officials to conduct the visit to the temple deity, for only by visiting the temple deity could the woodcarving masters' skill improve.

Li Che could then hide the Flying Thunder chess pieces on the bodies of the Directorate of Astronomy guest officials who were about to enter the Guiyi Miao.

Once they entered the Guiyi Miao, Li Che remotely controlled them, causing the Flying Thunder chess pieces to jump and fall, hiding them within the Guiyi Miao.

It was like sowing a seed.

Moreover, Li Che was simply continuously dropping chess pieces.

Like a steady and prudent chess player, he continuously placed pieces to set up a formation.

All he chose were the Seven-Origin Guiyi Miaos; he hid Flying Thunder chess pieces in all five of the Seven-Origin Guiyi Miaos.

About half a month later, Li Che would only, in the deep of night, enter that Guiyi Miao to discreetly perform the summoning ritual.

Thus, the days proceeded in an orderly manner.

Li Che went to the God Eagle Ridge once to inquire about the timing of the elder examination.

On his first visit, a receiving elder of God Eagle Ridge, seeing how young Li Che was, almost directly drove him away.

If Li Che had not produced the recommendation jade pendant of Jiao Shaoxiu, the other party might not have even given him a chance to speak.

This also made Li Che feel God Eagle Ridge's emphasis on experience.

No wonder Jiao Shaoxiu said that Li Che's desire to become an elder of God Eagle Ridge was somewhat difficult…

He had to compete for slots with many woodcarving masters from all over, those who had decades, even up to a century of craftsmanship experience.

Li Che had only been studying woodcarving for how many years…

Naturally, no one was optimistic, but out of respect for Jiao Shaoxiu's token, they still received Li Che and told him that if the elder examination were to begin, they would notify him in advance.

Therefore, Li Che's hope of quickly obtaining a quota to enter the Divine Sect was, for now, futile.

Fortunately, Li Che could bring Zhang Ya and, at any time in the still of night, go see Xixi.

At first, the gate's Qiankun Dao Yun plaque would, upon Li Che's appearance, sense something and give a slight response.

Later, that Qiankun Dao Yun plaque began to deteriorate, allowing Li Che to come and go as he pleased.

Zhang Ya could see her daughter every day, so she did not miss her as much, and she devoted more of her spirit and energy to cultivating martial arts and divinity.

With Li Che providing abundant resources, Zhang Ya's cultivation never lacked resources.

Thus, time trickled by, Li Che began to immerse himself in cultivation, and his life started to become regular.

He used the generous gifts from previous enemies at the Directorate of Astronomy to purchase a piece of five-ancestor spirit wood named 【Blood Thunder Glazed Dragon Bone Wood】, as well as a considerable amount of sixth-order spirit wood.

After the spirit wood arrived, Li Che began to construct the mechanism beast 【Blood Yang Nine Divine Gold Strong Ape】 from the Tangji Jianji Yaowu that the chief of God Eagle Ridge of Guangfu Prefecture, Tang Sanjia Elder Brother, had sent him.

A sixth-order upper-rank mechanism beast!

But this is absolutely a massive project.

The entire mechanism beast has a total of 139,872 mechanical parts from head to toe, each part requiring Li Che to manually grind and fabricate.

And it demands extremely high precision!

Furthermore, this mechanism beast requires the placement of the Nine Seals of Mechanisms, needing to stamp the Nine Seals of Mechanisms into the parts, with a total of ten thousand parts needing to receive the Nine Seals of Mechanisms; the sequence must not be mistaken, and the imprint of the Mechanism Seal must not be wrong.

Fortunately, Li Che has a clone from the Painting Immortal.

He directly activated the Painting Immortal clone and began intensive research!

Besides researching the mechanism beast, Li Che these days has also become obsessed with refining the Corpse God's Seal.

This Corpse God's Seal, after being fiercely beaten by the Ape God's divine aspect, is still remarkably tough, making Li Che's refinement of it extremely difficult!

In the dark, an invisible force seeks to hinder his refinement.

Li Che perseveres, bombarding it every day with the power of Black and White Extreme Collapse.

Gradually, he finally pried open the inner side of the Corpse God's Seal's icy seal and began to refine it.

Daily practicing fists, nurturing divinity, crafting the mechanism beast, marking the Corpse God's Seal……

The days passed extremely fulfilling!

Li Che these days has not even gone to exterminate the Corpse God Sect heretics lurking within Qianyuan Dao City.

Because it's unnecessary; after he finishes refining the Corpse God's Seal, all the Corpse God Sect heretics……

Upon seeing him, it would be like seeing the Corpse God, a supreme rank oppression.

Li Che could directly suppress them with ease.

When the time comes to kill, it will be effortless, and may not even cause a major disturbance.

The days in Dao City are peaceful and calm; the vast Dao City is like a huge machine, constantly operating.

The days slipped by smoothly, day after day.

When spring passed, it became summer; when the summer cicadas finished their lives, autumn arrived.

Maple leaves dyed the clouds at the horizon red, and a sharp chill came from the north.

The sky drifted with heavy goose-feather snow.

The cold wind rustled, piercingly icy.

Qianyuan Dao City, a Seven-Origin Guiyi Miao under the Su family's jurisdiction.

Li Che clenched his five fingers, accompanied by a drift of falling wind and snow.

He appeared within the Guiyi Miao; the white candle flames flickered, and the firelight instantly turned into a dim green!

It was a female temple deity holding a flower basket, seated dignified upon the altar, possessing a hint of eeriness in her composure.

"The Deity of Sorrowful Divinity……"

Li Che wore a bamboo hat, his face covered by an ox-demon mask, and he lifted his hand to lightly brush off a patch of fallen snow from his black robe.

The next moment, his body suddenly swelled, and nine successive hideous, twitching dragon-tendons bulged from his back, resembling the color of red-hot branding iron, while the exposed skin seemed like steel forged through a thousand tempers.

A ding, a flick of the finger.

A crisp sound burst forth, as if a thunder dragon roared and bellowed.

A staff interwoven with flashing azure lightning arcs spun continuously in the air, finally landing in Li Che's hand.

"Snap," it was seized by Li Che.

With a single arm he grasped the Mysterious Gold Eight‑Treasure Thunder Dragon Staff; Li Che's massive, sturdy frame and the thick black hair beneath his bamboo hat began to grow wildly.

"Ascend!"

The temple deity's divinity was squeezed out of its divine aspect and merged into Li Che's body.

Within the altar, the temple deity seemed to come alive, unleashing earth‑shaking murderous intent and fighting alongside Li Che.

A smile curled at Li Che's lips beneath his mask, and thirty five‑element divine spears surged out wildly.

The staff's shadow blossomed like a peacock spreading its tail!

Mixed‑Origin Qi Tian Staff!

The airflow was pierced and shattered, and the divine wind raged in all directions!

Explosive qi and blood fell like a boulder into a lake, with layers of spreading airflow raging and intertwining!

Moments later, the temple deity was violently shattered by Li Che.

Using the Summon Deity divine art, he pulled it into the Heaven and Earth Chessboard.

Boom——!!!

The Guiyi Temple began to tremble and roar, walls shattered, debris exploded, and a massive blue finger, piercing the strange void and eerie mist, slammed down hard!

Extreme fury, like rolling thunder striking down!

Yet Li Che had already vanished.

Beyond the strange void.

A figure, moving at ultimate speed, tore through the air and landed on the churning edge of the strange void.

Yu Wen Wenlong, looking like a scholar, wore a solemn expression.

"Another one..."

"Another Guiyi Temple, vanished from the mortal world."

"Who on earth is it?!"

"It's the sixth!"

Yu Wen Wenlong exhaled.

The Su family's strongmen also arrived, each with a grim visage.

"This is the fifth Seven‑Element Guiyi Temple that disappeared under our Su family's jurisdiction!"

"Who is it? Why are they targeting the Su family so fiercely?!"

Yu Wen Wenlong gave the Su strongmen a casual glance.

"Su family, think carefully... could you have offended someone?"

After speaking, Yu Wen Wenlong tore through the eerie mist and crashed into it, but the divinity had become past, and the temple was already empty.

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Qian Yuan Dao City, Liuxiang Alley.

Inside the workshop courtyard.

Li Che clenched his five fingers, the airflow surged, scattering all the white snow in the courtyard.

"The Seventh Temple Deity... Summon Deity succeeded."

Li Che hadn't even removed his bamboo hat, yet he sat on the courtyard ground.

"The Seventh, the mournful divine aspect, ready!"

Li Che's thoughts shifted.

In the next instant, he raised his hand and pressed it onto the mud pearl at his brow.

A powerful, storm‑like divinity surged from his brow's mud pearl, spreading outward!

The female temple deity, who had been suppressed on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard holding a flower basket, became bound by divine shackles and was slowly drawn into the final round of the Seven‑Emotion Divine Foundation.

At first the female temple deity tried to resist.

But Li Che directly summoned the divine aspects of the other six temple deities, staring at it.

The female temple deity abandoned the struggle, choosing elegance rather than crudely stepping into Li Che's divine foundation.

A torrent‑like divinity, as overwhelming as a boiling river, surged around Li Che, drawing fierce gale howls.

Li Che slowly opened his eyes, his dark shirt and black robe fluttering in the wind.

His azure‑strong hair whirled wildly.

Li Che raised his hand, his five fingers pressing down forcefully.

In an instant, all the divinity returned to his brow's mud pearl, like mud sinking in the sea, leaving no ripples.

The whole courtyard fell silent as the wind ceased.

Everything became exceedingly quiet.

Only pure white snowflakes fell on the roof, emitting a soft 'puff' sound.

Li Che extended his hand, palm turned upward.

A piece of cold snow drifted onto his palm.

His scorching qi melted it into transparent water.

Li Che clenched his five fingers.

A hint of smile rose at the corner of his lips.

He lifted his head……

Looking up at the sky, snowflakes fell one by one.

He still remembered that year, when snow flew everywhere.

He carried a frozen fish, and received the news of his wife's delivery.

「Once again, it's the time when heaven and earth give birth to snowflakes. 」

「My little Xixi……」

「Xixi is five years old. 」