He Lan Tianxia

Seeing that his wife was not seriously injured, Luo Xie decided to return to Wubei Kingdom. He could not abandon his mother and his brothers who fought alongside him on the battlefield. He wanted to settle his grievances with Qin Nan.

The next morning, after breakfast, Luo Xie mounted the fine Ferghana horse given to him by Murong Junlan and galloped back to Wubei Kingdom alone. Originally, Murong Junlan intended to give him three thousand elite soldiers to take with him as a precaution, but Luo Xie refused, as he did not want to resolve the issue by force.

Before leaving, Yan'er was reluctant to part with Luo Xie. She wanted to go with him, but Luo Xie said he would come back to pick her up after he resolved his grievances with Qin Nan. Then, Luo Xie walked up to Murong Junlan and secretly asked, "Your Highness, could you give us a chance to compete fairly?"

"Wishful thinking." Murong Junlan rejected him outright. The cold aura emanating from him made Luo Xie take a few steps back. You dare to make a move on his princess? Do you deserve a beating? He urged Luo Xie, "Hurry up and leave. Don't wait until I regret it and have to put that soft-hoofed horse on you again."

Upon hearing this, Luo Xie leaped onto his horse, slapped its rump, and the horse reared up and neighed loudly before galloping towards the Wubei Kingdom. Before slapping the horse's rump, Luo Xie deliberately shouted to the woman, "My queen, wait for me, we'll meet again."

Upon hearing this, Murong Junlan glared angrily at Luo Xie, flicked his wrist, and sent a few small pebbles hitting the horse's rump. The horse, in pain, bolted away.

The Yan Garden was much quieter without Luo Xie and Luo Rina. Fortunately, Jin Chuchu, with her bruised and swollen face, came out every day to curse and swear at the servants. And here she was again. Murong Junlan was teaching Yan'er to write in the study when Jin Chuchu barged in to complain, "Your Highness, Xia Muyao bullied me."

"You're already being kind by not bullying her. How could she possibly bully you?" Murong Junlan was busy teaching Yan'er to write and didn't want to pay any attention to Jin Chuchu.

"She pulled up the entire pond of lotus roots that I specially planted for you, Your Highness." Jin Chuchu wanted to go forward to see what was written, but Jiang He blocked her way.

"Then plant it again." Murong Junlan had just taught Yan'er to finish the last stroke of the character "fei" and nodded in satisfaction. His eyes softened as he said to Yan'er, "Well done."

"Your Highness, may I have a look?" Jin Chuchu stood on tiptoe, craning her neck to see, but she still couldn't see it.

"Jiang He, she wants to see you show it to her," Murong Junlan said as she continued to teach her Yan'er to write.

"Flying wing to wing." Jin Chuchu felt a little sad as she read it, so she said to Murong Junlan, "Your Highness, I can also write these words."

"That's good. Go back to your room and write it yourself." Murong Junlan didn't even glance at Jin Chuchu.

"Your Highness..." Jin Chuchu wanted to continue, but Murong Junlan gestured for Jiang He to leave. Jiang He immediately walked up to Jin Chuchu, adopting a businesslike demeanor, "Miss Jin, His Highness says you are tired, please go back to your room to rest."

"What? I'm tired? You little brat, Jiang He, just wait until I become a princess, you'll see!" Jin Chuchu flung her sleeves and stormed off. It was only morning, and Jin Chuchu had nothing to do. She wanted to find Xia Muyao, but it was hard to find; the two were still arguing. Bored, she strolled around the small garden, then the large garden, and finally sat behind the rockery, throwing pebbles for a while. It wasn't time for breakfast yet, and Jin Chuchu was about to go to the kitchen to find a servant to yell at when suddenly a hand reached out from behind the rockery and scooped her up, and then she fainted.

When Jin Chuchu woke up again, she was lying in her own bed. Huh, what's going on? She couldn't move. Was she going to get married again? Jin Chuchu blinked, then blinked again, but didn't see Murong Junlan. She opened her mouth to call for help, but a steamed bun was shoved into her mouth. She had no choice but to smack her lips and eat it. After finishing it, she tried to call for help again, but another bun was shoved into her mouth. She had no choice but to smack her lips and eat it again. After finishing that, another one appeared. "No, I can't eat anymore, I'll be stuffed to death!" she thought. So she forcefully spat it to the side, and the bun rolled onto the floor.

"Get up if you're not going to eat." A chilling voice sounded from the side, followed by two pats on Jin Chuchu's shoulders. She could move. Jin Chuchu pushed herself up with her hands, but oh! A masked man in black was staring at her menacingly. Jin Chuchu flopped back down. She tried to call for help, but another bun was shoved into her mouth. She got angry, sat up abruptly, threw the bun away, and tried to curse, but instinctively covered her mouth.

"Want to be a princess?" The man in black's words were even colder than the aura emanating from him.

"I want to." Upon hearing that she would become a princess, Jin Chuchu immediately calmed down and became very interested.

“From today onwards, I will teach you martial arts.” The man in black crushed the bun in his hand and squeezed out a sinister sentence, “I also want him to taste what it feels like to be betrayed and separated from his lover.”

"Learn martial arts?" Jin Chuchu hesitated. She was so delicate and precious; learning martial arts would only bring her suffering.

"Don't want to learn?" The man in black glanced at her dismissively, then suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "You have to learn whether you want to or not." A chilling aura emanated from him.

"Learn, learn." Jin Chuchu wasn't stupid; she had to say whether she would learn or not now, whether she could actually learn it was another matter.

"If you can't learn it, I'll throw you off the Cliff of Broken Hearts." The man in black seemed to see through Jin Chuchu's little scheme. He toyed with another steamed bun in his hand and slowly said, "I don't like others wasting my time. You'd better watch yourself." After saying that, the man in black flashed to the door, but then flashed back in the blink of an eye, warning, "Don't tell anyone I was here, or you will be instantly reduced to ashes."

Jin Chuchu nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice. She watched as the man in black darted through the window in a flash, his body as agile as a monkey.

In the days that followed, the man in black taught Jin Chuchu martial arts every day, either inside the house or in the suburbs. Jin Chuchu was forced to practice until she felt like her body was falling apart, but she dared not stop practicing and dared not utter a sound.

At the crack of dawn, the woman in black arrived again. Seeing Jin Chuchu still lying in bed, she grabbed her and threw her out the window. "Are you trying to kill me? I'm a person, not a piece of trash!" Jin Chuchu wanted to yell, but she was afraid Murong Junlan would find out. Although Murong Junlan had thrown her into the furthest room from Yan Garden and ignored her, Jin Chuchu was still a little worried. What she didn't know was that the woman in black always made a commotion at Broken Heart Cliff before each visit, sending Murong Junlan and Jiang He away to prevent future trouble.

Just as Jin Chuchu was about to fall into the pond, a large, furry hand caught her. The embrace she fell into was warm, but also furry and had an indescribable smell. Jin Chuchu was about to open her eyes to see what it was when she heard a whooshing sound beside her. She slowly opened her eyes and immediately broke out in a cold sweat. She saw herself being carried by a gorilla, being sprinted about three feet off the ground.

"Put me down!" Jin Chuchu cried out in panic, but no one paid her any attention. She began to struggle. The gorilla sensed this and tightened its grip even more, clearly annoyed. After crossing a stream, they entered a small pine forest. Although the forest was small, the pine trees were quite large; their trunks were too big for one person to wrap their arms around. The ground beneath the trees was covered with dead leaves, and small animals occasionally peeked out. "Please don't leave me here!" Jin Chuchu prayed desperately, barely daring to breathe. She was even prepared to be thrown off the gorilla at any moment.

After circling the pine forest two or three times, the gorilla stopped. Jin Chuchu had just breathed a sigh of relief and hadn't even stood up properly when, with a "whoosh," the gorilla lifted her up into the air again.

Are we running again? Wait, that doesn't seem right. Why is my body rising? Ouch, my hands and feet hurt from all the bumps and bruises. Climbing a tree? To raid a bird's nest? Gorilla, you better watch out for me! Jin Chuchu finally realized where they were going. Jin Chuchu's feet finally touched the tree trunk, but the gorilla rudely pushed her up the tree. What kind of attitude is that? Luckily, she had practiced martial arts with the man in black for a month, otherwise she would have been reduced to ashes if she fell.

The gorilla that had abandoned Jin Chuchu vanished in an instant. Standing high on a branch, Jin Chuchu finally snapped out of her panic. "Damn it! This tree is at least twenty or thirty feet off the ground! How am I supposed to get down?" Jin Chuchu clung tightly to the tree, calling for help, but after half an hour, no one appeared. So she started cursing the gorilla. "You wretched gorilla! Don't let me see you again! When I become a queen, I'll have Prince Murong kill you!" But cursing aside, she still had to get down. It was so far! Why were these branches so far apart? Jin Chuchu gripped the trunk with both hands, dangling there, swaying back and forth, completely at a loss.

"It seems you've wasted a month of training." A clear, ethereal voice echoed from the empty space.

"What?" Jin Chuchu was still confused. Suddenly, she felt the branch she was holding sag slightly, as if it were about to break. Looking down, she saw that damned gorilla was also hanging there. The gorilla winked at her, then let go and jumped to another branch. Jin Chuchu thought, "I'm not a monkey, how am I supposed to jump?" Seeing that Jin Chuchu wasn't jumping, the gorilla grabbed her again and landed on the same branch.

"Get down. What are you doing here again?" Jin Chuchu felt the branch was about to break and shooed the gorilla away, but the gorilla seemed to be deliberately going against her, swinging even more smugly on the branch. After the gorilla jumped up and down nearly ten times, Jin Chuchu finally realized that the gorilla was teaching her how to get down the tree. At this point, Jin Chuchu really couldn't hold on any longer. She let go and, imitating the gorilla, jumped to a branch below, but instead of jumping, she fell.

"Ah!" Jin Chuchu plopped down on a branch below. The branch, under the weight, bent sharply downwards, startling her so much that she clung tightly to the trunk. The gorilla tried to grab her again, and Jin Chuchu realized this branch was even thinner than the previous one. Hanging on it, she'd fall without even shaking it. Desperate, Jin Chuchu let go and fell onto another branch below. What a close call! Just as she was about to catch her breath, the gorilla leaped up again, and Jin Chuchu had no choice but to recklessly drop herself onto the next branch. "Thud... thud... thud..." Finally, she hit the ground. Ugh, she was scared out of her wits.

Just as Jin Chuchu felt the solid ground beneath her, her body suddenly felt light. Huh? What was going on? Damn it, that darn gorilla had grabbed her again and was rapidly leaping towards the treetop. Jin Chuchu realized—they were forcing her to train like crazy!

Yan'er was finally less resistant to Murong Junlan, but she still longed for Luo Xie to take her away as soon as possible. Murong Junlan's pride was truly wounded for the first time. In every way, he was inferior to Luo Xie. Even if his Yan'er had lost her memory, she should still look at him properly. To help Yan'er regain her memory as quickly as possible, Murong Junlan not only played "Shuai Wangba" with her, but also took her to Broken Heart Cliff to play the flute. That day, Murong Junlan instructed Jiang He to bring the Red Hare early in the morning, and then, with a simple bag, he and Yan'er rode off towards the snowy region.

After three days and three nights, they finally found the bear den. The bears hadn't returned yet; they were probably still at the White-Haired Woman's Valley of Destruction. The sheepskin coat and other items were still there. Actually, besides helping Yan'er regain her memories, Murong Junlan's other mission this time was to find the snow lotus on the ice mountain. He knew the snow lotus would be useful to Ling Yi. Jiang He in the Du Yan Kingdom was still responsible for finding Ling Yi. Considering Ling Yi's special identity, Murong Junlan didn't dare to search openly and only instructed Jiang He to complete the mission alone.

Ever since he learned that Yan'er was the owner of "Silver Circle Dream Shadow", and after seeing the secret of "Silver Circle Dream Shadow" when he fell into the ice sculpture cave, Murong Junlan had long wanted to teach this martial art to his Yan'er, so that their "Dream Shadows" could fly side by side.

Yan'er was very gifted; she could grasp almost any secret technique taught after only one or two tries. Combined with the desert lightness skill she had learned in the snowy region, her progress was even more rapid this time. Yan'er also worked very hard, and in less than a month, she was able to leap onto cliffs to pick snow lotus flowers on her own. Time flew by, and three months passed in the blink of an eye. Yan'er's martial arts skills improved at a visible pace, and her "Dreamlike Twin Shadows" technique became second nature. The only slight worry was that Yan'er still hadn't remembered Murong Junlan.

Early that morning, Yan'er took the initiative to invite Murong Junlan to pick snow lotus flowers. Because it was too late the night before, Murong Junlan wouldn't let her go up that steep cliff, and she hadn't slept a wink all night, missing it terribly. Seeing how much her Yan'er cared about picking snow lotus flowers, Murong Junlan smiled gently, took Yan'er's hand, and led her out of the cave.

Amidst the pristine white snow, two figures leaped and chased each other, displaying desert agility as beautiful as a landscape, their movements fluid and dynamic.

On a cliff, several snow lotus flowers bloom brilliantly, and next to them is a spherical plant with five-pointed white flowers. Looking up, it's as if a peerless beauty is displaying Kuang Gu's enchanting beauty.

"It's Snow Lingzhi!" Murong Junlan's eyes lit up. Before Yan'er could react, he scooped her up by the waist and ran towards her. Yan'er felt that this was the most exciting time Murong Junlan had ever been since he came to the Snow Region.

“Look, this snow lingzhi has at least several thousand years of spiritual energy. Just look at the layers of mist and the refreshing fragrance emanating from it.” Murong Junlan’s attention was completely focused on the snow lingzhi.

"Your Highness, look! A snow lotus flower has bloomed on the snow lingzhi tree!" Yan'er exclaimed with delight, dancing around with joy.

"This plant is probably a hybrid of the pollen from the snow lotus next to it and the snow lingzhi from before. Quickly, pick all the flowers and take them back. We'll leave the tree here so it can continue to bloom."

Just as the two plucked a flower, the world suddenly changed color, and a six-foot-long blood centipede lunged at them, baring its fangs and claws. In his haste, Murong Junlan had forgotten the necessity of an animal protecting a spiritual plant. He quickly drew his silver ring and thin rope to fend off the centipede, then shouted to Yan'er, "Hurry up, eat the snow lotus flower blooming on the snow lingzhi!"

"Eat?" Yan'er thought she had misheard.

“Yes. Hurry up.” Murong Junlan affirmed.

So Yan'er hurriedly put the Lingzhi Snow Lotus into her mouth and chewed it. A cool, sweet sensation went straight to her lungs, extremely comfortable, and her whole body instantly felt light. What she didn't know was that this five-thousand-year-old Lingzhi Snow Lotus not only cured the flower poison of the Valley of Forgetfulness, but also opened up her Ren and Du meridians, allowing her to advance to the third level of cultivation on her own. Yan'er's right hand trembled, and she took out the "Silver Ring Dream Shadow" fine rope from her bosom and charged forward.

When the giant blood centipede saw that Yan'er had eaten the magical creature, it immediately pounced on her and attacked her.