Dreams and fists shatter the sky

Chapter 231: Winter Arrival

On the steps of Zhuque.

Huang Zexun's gaze became somewhat vacant.

He kept looking up and down at each Zhuque step, repeatedly confirming the authenticity of those footprints.

Every footprint was identical, even their positions were the same.

This indicated they were left by the same person.

And the ones lower down were shallower, while those higher up were slightly deeper.

This indicated that the person who left the footprints exerted more weight higher up.

All of this was telling Huang Zexun that these footprints were left by Ye An.

And although Ye An was currently standing on Step 5536, his footprints could be seen all the way up to Step 5550.

Did he come down from above?

Of course not.

These footprints were left by him before.

His utmost effort to touch the limit was merely his daily training.

In an instant, Huang Zexun's eyes dimmed, and his inner self suddenly became numb.

Energetic young men often turned into oily middle-aged men.

Because they had been shattered by the truth of this world.

Now Huang Zexun was also facing these truths directly.

This was the unavoidable path for every young man.

Ye An had experienced it.

After seeing Li He's speed in Tianshui City, then witnessing Zhao Huaiyi's unparalleled swordsmanship, and later encountering the power of the Apocalypse, a force that humans couldn't possibly contend with.

All of this told Ye An one truth: You have nothing to do with the two words "the strongest"!

It wasn't just him.

Fang Tianlian had also experienced it.

In the battle against Ye An in the Super League, it had shown him that his many years of arduous cultivation were just a joke.

Li He was the same.

At the moment when he thought he was very powerful and almost couldn't recover from tragedy.

Zhao Huaiyi couldn't escape either.

In that moment when he used all his strength but couldn't defeat his opponent, he could only be powerless and furious in front of an army of undead.

Reality always differs from fantasy.

How to face this reality determines what kind of person you will become in the future.

Huang Zexun desolately lay on the stone steps as if all his vigor had disappeared.

A huge wave of negative emotions surged through his mind.

This generation's geniuses were stronger than one another, easily achieving Dao Fruits and even several of them could form domains.

He was in a hurry, diligently cultivating, thinking he had achieved something, only to come and challenge the renowned Ye An, and end up becoming a joke.

Is my whole life a joke?

His father, whom he regarded as a hero, turned out to be a cunning villain who used schemes to advance himself.

Friends disappeared overnight.

Suddenly fawning distant relatives, who were actually eyeing the huge inheritance in his pocket.

When a person's last straw is crushed, negative emotions begin to grow infinitely, and all old accounts will be dug up just to prove that he is truly useless.

As long as this can be confirmed, I can accept the truth that I am useless and not strive for anything anymore. I will feel better in my heart.

Suddenly.

Ye An's voice rang in his ears.

"Hey!"

He came to his senses, looked up, and saw that the guy covered in yellow soil was already standing on Step 5556.

Huang Zexun nodded lightly and said, "You win."

After that, he turned and walked down the stairs quickly.

Ye An also turned and walked down.

It's difficult to climb up the mountain, but it's easy to descend.

Because he could fly.

Ye An directly grew Phoenix wings behind him, gliding all the way down to the foot of the mountain.

Huang Zexun, on the other hand, walked step by step with his head down, like an ordinary person.

At the foot of the mountain.

Zhuque watched everything with a smile.

Someone's mentality broke.

She liked to see young people competing fiercely. Some laughed, some had their mentality collapse—these things were often called gossip in the secular world.

Then.

Ye An waited at the foot of the mountain for a while until Huang Zexun arrived.

After arriving, he flashed a space ring in his hand, and a blue shimmering stone appeared.

He tossed it to Ye An and said, "Let's go."

Suddenly.

Ye An turned and stopped Huang Zexun, saying, "Wait."

"Why?" Huang Zexun frowned. "Are you mocking me?"

"I'm not that boring," Ye An shook his head, smiling. "Do you still have Dao Stones?"

"What do you want?" Huang Zexun snorted coldly.

"I don't want anything," Ye An shook his head. "Do you remember what you said earlier?"

"No matter the outcome of this match."

"We can compare again who breaks the record of Gun Xian first."

"The bet is the same as today."

"How about it?"

After two seconds of silence, Huang Zexun said, "Whatever."

"Good." Ye An nodded. "Then don't deny it when the time comes."

"Of course not." Huang Zexun snorted, turned and stepped into his own spaceship.

The green shade at the foot of the mountain quieted down.

Ye An suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Where's Liu the blacksmith?"

"He's gone back." Zhuque shook her head. "Then I'll go back too."

After that, Zhuque stepped into the void.

Ye An looked at the empty Phoenix Sky Forest and felt something was strange.

The world suddenly quieted down, and today's wind was a bit colder than usual.

Although his life had always been quiet before, it felt weird after a brief excitement.

It's not early anymore.

Stop practicing.

Go find Ji Qing.

Ye An boarded the spaceship and returned to his residence on Zhuque Star.

At that moment, he suddenly realized that he might live here for a long time in the future, so he bought a villa in the suburbs.

Few people, large grounds, and a garden for planting flowers and grass.

The interior decoration of the house was similar to his old home in Tianshui City, with three floors and a spacious basement.

Without surprise.

Ji Qing was practicing boxing in the basement.

Seeing her sweating profusely, Ye An leaned against the wall for a while.

He had always wanted to tell Ji Qing about Zhuque's theory.

Ji Qing was a natural ice-elementalist, and boxing didn't quite match her talents.

Scattered, unfocused.

This might prevent her from becoming powerful enough in the future.

But Ji Qing seemed to really enjoy boxing.

Ye An thought as long as she was happy, it was fine, so he eventually let it go.

Suddenly, Ye An saw several new lunch boxes on the nearby table, all filled with delicious food.

Ye An quickly approached, opened the boxes, and started eating.

Ji Qing also stopped her movements.

She walked over, a flash of extreme ice, and all the sweat disappeared.

After sitting down, she took off her boxing gloves, took one of the lunch boxes, and lifted her white little feet, twisting her toes comfortably.

As she ate, she looked curiously at Ye An and said, "Why are you back so early today?"

Ye An took out the Dao Stone and placed it on the table, saying, "I won today, won back a Dao Stone."

"Mainly because I suddenly felt a strange feeling today."

"The Phoenix Sky Forest seems a bit cold. I want to go home as soon as it gets dark."

"I thought it was okay not to practice today. I'll study the Dao Stone tonight and come back first."

Ji Qing raised her eyebrows and said, "A bit cold?"

"Oh, right, it's almost November, and Zhuque Star is almost winter."

"My dad told me that when people feel cold, they will want to go home."

"Yeah, it's almost winter," Ye An suddenly realized, saying, "I thought the wind these days was a bit chilly."

"Do you think it will snow in the Phoenix Sky Forest in winter?"

Ji Qing raised her eyebrows, her mouth holding chopsticks, taking out the star platform, saying, "Check it out and know it."

Soon, she found the answer.

Due to its geographical location, the Phoenix Sky Forest would snow in winter, and the snowy white snow would cover the green forest everywhere.

Ye An's eyes lit up when he heard it, saying, "It sounds beautiful just listening to it."

"I'm looking forward to it a bit."

Ji Qing suddenly remembered something, saying, "Didn't you say before that you hadn't seen snow?"

Ye An nodded, saying, "I said before, didn't I see it later?"

"When?" Ji Qing was puzzled.

"On Tianqi Star." Ye An smiled, "You gave me a snowstorm."

Ji Qing's small face pulled, saying, "That's not fun, you couldn't see anything when you were in the Black Devil Realm, it was so black."

Ye An frowned, carefully recalled.

What did I see?

He murmured, "I remember the sky was constantly snowing."

"Then you appeared from the snowflakes, standing in front of me, blue."