Chapter 508: Chapter 169: You Take the Lead, I Follow—Co-Ruling the Western Pole, How About It?

Li Yuan walked into the house and noticed that the wooden bed had somehow turned into a stone bed. He threw his wife onto the bed.

Zhenyan Xue’s breathing became rapid.

The long-missed longing transformed into fire.

She was not a shy and reserved young lady from the Central Plains; she didn’t care whether it was daytime and hurriedly undid her clothes and reached for Li Yuan’s belt...

The ice had not melted, and the spring waters gurgled.

A long time passed, then even longer...

The tall and beautiful woman lay contentedly in Li Yuan’s arms. Her crystalline toes were slightly tense, and her heaving chest resembled harp strings that had undergone a fierce but unended vibration, still trembling...

She had not yet freed herself from the "battle" just now, still savoring a happiness even dreams could not offer.

Suddenly, she remembered something and asked, "Why weren’t you on top?"

Li Yuan said, "Too heavy."

Zhenyan Xue looked left and right, squeezed up and down, and said, "Not fat at all."

Li Yuan said, "Why not, let’s try?"

"Hmm!" Zhenyan Xue lay back down.

Eventually, when Li Yuan pressed down, she cried out in pain, "Oh, so heavy," then curiously asked, "Why is it so heavy?"

Li Yuan didn’t hide it from her and told her about everything that had happened since he had a fever, skipping over the Black Market Ghost Realm part, only mentioning family...

When it came to the fact that the Nine Flames and Six Barbarians had been subdued and he had become the Great Barbarian King, Zhenyan Xue was in utter disbelief. She stared wide-eyed until she saw Li Yuan raise his hand to conjure a familiar flame, which made her doubtful, yet she still couldn’t believe it.

"Right, there’s something else I want to tell you."

Li Yuan suddenly said.

His identity as the Great Barbarian King was now established, no longer needing to maintain his "legitimacy as a member of the Nine Flames Clan" through marriage.

"Actually..."

He hadn’t even begun when he was interrupted.

Zhenyan Xue said, "I know, you’re definitely not a hunter’s son, but an important figure from this Cloud Mountain Path... but no matter what, you’re still my man, right?"

Her voice was trembling, even fearful, afraid that if the man in front of her lifted that superficial layer, he’d discard her like useless trash.

Li Yuan was taken aback and hugged her tightly, softly saying, "I used you, but since we’re already a couple, my feelings for you have changed from use to genuine... so, are you willing to be Li Yuan’s woman?"

"No matter if it’s Zhenyan Yuan or Li Yuan, I’m willing." Zhenyan Xue buried her head in the man’s chest, whispering, "I’ve been alone in the mountains for so long, but it feels like you just left yesterday.

Life is fleeting, and if there are no people or things to care about, a hundred years will pass in an instant...

In these hundred years, I want to be with you, I want to have children with you."

"A hundred years..."

Li Yuan murmured, his eyes dim, then said, "Since you know Zhenyan Yuan but don’t recognize Li Yuan, then... let me tell you Li Yuan’s story."

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"Great Barbarian King..."

"Great Barbarian King..."

Hoarse voices echoed in the darkness.

"Body is Fire, how could such a person exist? Why wasn’t he burned to death by the fire..."

Ice and snow intertwined with darkness.

Ghostly blue ice crystals encased frozen corpses, presenting a scene both tragic and eerie.

"That day, I should have killed him, killed him! Anyone who covets the Immortal Tomb deserves to die here!"

The voice carried a hint of regret.

"He’s coming soon, what should I do? What should I do?"

"He will definitely return to the Immortal Tomb..."

"He will definitely return..."

"However, I can incite the Ice Barbarians to resist the outsider."

The voice carried a tone of malice.

But after a long time, the voice sighed and said, "Forget it, let’s meet him."

The cold wind blew through the darkness, lifting the snow-white fur cloak to reveal the razor-thin lips beneath the hood.

Surrounded by a pack of wolves was a girl with a face full of resentment.

Her eyes glowed with an ancient and profound wisdom unbefitting her age.

"Then come, Barbarian King."

However... she waited for three months.

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The following year, March...

Li Yuan steadily unified the Nine Flames Clan into one, and he was also trying to tame the Ice and Snow Giant Wolves. With his current abilities, he could normally tame five giant wolves, but for some reason... he failed. There seemed to be something entrenched within those Ice and Snow Giant Wolves, something that made them completely untamable.

Li Yuan had no choice but to give up, trying to gather as much information from various sources about the Immortal Tomb, and after going through various ancient texts, he decided to return to the Immortal Tomb once more.

There, he discovered something strange.

When he appeared in this land, the flames of the Nine Great Clans had diminished, becoming smaller.

This further confirmed Li Yuan’s previous feeling.

Fire is the concentration of yang energy in a domain.

And why it can concentrate, there must be some mysterious power and connection.

Li Yuan temporarily called this power the Fire Seed.

There was a Fire Seed inside him, and the camps of the Nine Great Clans also had Fire Seeds, hence they could absorb all the surrounding yang energy.

But what puzzled him was that the range from which the Nine Great Clans’ Fire Seed absorbed yang energy seemed excessively vast, far beyond what a Fire Seed should be capable of.

If "Yang Realm" is compared to "Ghost Realm," the range should be limited.

Yet the range at which the fire of the Nine Great Clans absorbed seemed to have exceeded this limit.

This was problematic.

At this moment...

Li Yuan walked alone toward the Immortal Tomb.

The familiar ground revisited, yet utterly different from two years ago.

His eyes emitted a faint red glow, no longer blurred by the scene;

Walking through the icy and snowy landscape, a gradient of flame enveloped him, impervious to the cold.