After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

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Part 454 Snow Cold Skill and the Seventeen-Year Cicada [First Update 4K]

With her hand resting on Xiaxia's wrist, the girl, who was sitting quietly on the edge of the bed, raised her starry eyes, her cheeks and ears blushing with a lovely rosy blush.

She watched as Shi Yan slightly parted his lips, his hesitant and evasive gaze filling the room with the scent of citrus.

"Xia...Xia...Xia Xia..."

"What's wrong with Xiaxia?" Shi Yan seemed to tense up at the mention of Xiaxia.

Yun Susu tilted her head back slightly, looking timid and shrinking her neck, "Xia... Xiaxia, little sister..."

"No...it's nothing serious."

"Sister Shiyan—" Only when she said Shiyan's name did Yun Susu's soft, stuttering words become smoother than ever before. "Sister Shiyan takes very good care of Sister Xiaxia."

Yun Susu emphasized the word "very good".

Shi Yan's smile froze.

"Xiaxia is the most special person to me."

Perhaps... it wasn't just the girls who were affected by that level of affection; Shi Yan, who was equally devoted to Xia Xia, was also affected.

Or perhaps... the girl who grew up with Shi Yan and always clung to him, the future daughter-in-law, meant something completely different to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan gently touched Xia Xia's loose, long hair.

Looking at Shi Yan's gentle expression, Yun Susu felt a pang of envy.

"So Xiaxia..." Shi Yan waited for Yun Susu's answer.

She might not fully trust Yun Susu. But... she trusted the tavern owner.

The tavern owner said that Xiaxia carries half of the spirit dragon's bloodline, but is born with a deficiency and needs to sleep for a long time.

Yun Susu said that Xiaxia was fine.

Well... there shouldn't be any major problems.

"Sister Shiyan nourishes Sister Xiaxia... and she's doing a very good job." It was rare for Yun Susu to hesitate when mentioning Shiyan. She clutched her sleeves, her gaze fixed on the calves peeking out from under the slit of Shiyan's robe.

"Xia... Xiaxia, little sister... but..." When mentioning things other than Shi Yan, Yun Susu's speech immediately became a little hesitant, but it was still quite cute, "...she's living a very comfortable life..."

"We've been struck by lightning again... Is that so..."

"Therefore...so...we must wash away the superficiality and transform from the body of a dragon into a true spirit dragon."

“Generally speaking, it only takes… a few years of sleep.” The girl spoke as if she were trying very hard. “For dragons… for…”

"A few years is a very short time."

After finally finishing her sentence, Yun Susu breathed a long sigh of relief.

Shi Yan looked at Xia Xia.

What suddenly popped into my head... was another joke.

The hero married the dragon princess.

He faces charges from the dragons in the World Court.

The hero was prepared to refute all the arguments the dragons made, such as the difference between humans and dragons and the inability to interact.

But... to his utter surprise, the dragons' accusations against him were...

Our princess is only a few decades old.

From the dragons' perspective, she was still a young girl.

The hero was arrested on the spot.

“But…but Xiaxia’s situation is completely different…” Yun Susu looked at Xiaxia’s sleeping appearance.

Shi Yan raised his head.

"Little Xiaxia."

"Her...her dragon soul is severely injured..."

"Although I have been well cared for by my sister Shiyan, it is like a broken jar. It is very difficult to fill the jar with the dormant trickle of water."

Shi Yan suddenly became a little nervous.

Xiaxia is her lifeblood.

"Sister Su Su?"

Shi Yan suddenly got too close to Yun Susu, so much so that Yun Susu's vision seemed to be filled with the girl's lips. She hurriedly lowered her head and saw... the girl's delicate collarbone.

"Don't panic, Sister Shiyan."

It was almost like magic; as soon as Shi Yan's name was mentioned, Yun Susu immediately seemed like a completely different person.

"I have a way."

As if she had found the key to speaking without hesitation, Yun Susu murmured Shi Yan's name, "Sister Shi Yan should have heard of my cultivation technique, right..."

"The Seventeen-Year Cicada." Shi Yan looked at Yun Susu. It was a technique that Shi Yan had only heard of in the game but had never seen before.

However... judging from Yun Susu's attainment of enlightenment in one fell swoop, directly stepping one foot into the Enlightenment Realm...

The quality of this technique is probably no lower than, or even higher than, that of techniques like "The Record of Departure from Heaven," which involves signing a contract with a demon from beyond the heavens.

Yun Susu nodded gently.

"rumor……"

"North of the mainland, beyond the endless snowfields, there is a kind of cicada."

"They lie dormant underground for seventeen years before emerging, and then attach themselves to tree branches and shed their skin."

"Born in the morning, dead in the evening."

"Their lives are secretive and long."

"But...but..." Seeing that she was about to stutter again, Yun Susu quickly repeated Shi Yan's name.

"Has Sister Shiyan thought about this?"

"For the seventeen-year cicada, is the seventeen years of dormancy underground, where there is no sunlight and it is in a daze, longer, or... is the one day of splendor on the ground longer?"

Time is a yardstick that measures the length of life.

Just as Shi Yan was about to speak, he said, "Of course, seventeen years is the longest."

But... in that instant, she suddenly thought of herself.

Having lived as Shi Yan for fifteen or sixteen years, one day, I suddenly "awakened" to the memories of being "Shi Yan," the time traveler.

On the day he woke up, the past fifteen or sixteen years he had lived with Xiaxia were just like a dream.

"Perhaps... a day of splendor will last even longer."

Yun Susu looked at Shi Yan, her eyes seemingly shining.

She could tell that her younger sister, Shi Yan, truly understood.

really--

A girl who makes you fall in love at first sight must also have such outstanding talent.

She's completely different from that idiot Shushu.

"The 'Seventeen-Year Cicada' technique is such a method."

"one day--"

"Seventeen years."

"There is no difference."

"Seventeen years..."

"And... and a thousand years..."

"There is no difference either."

"Time is the yardstick that records the fragility of humankind."

"And the 'Seventeen-Year Cicada'... is actually the key to escape that yardstick." As she said this, Yun Susu's bright eyes, which seemed to sparkle, seemed to be etched with the marks of time's erosion.

Shi Yan suddenly understood—

Why does Yun Susu, a woman of exceptional talent and beauty, stutter?

To everyone else, Yun Susu was practicing the "Seventeen-Year Cicada" cultivation, spending seventeen years "doing nothing," and then suddenly attaining enlightenment, reaching the half-step enlightenment realm.

But... for the girl herself, it took her a thousand years to comprehend it.

It might even be more than a thousand years.

In that long period of solitude, she even forgot how to speak.

As for her "unwavering devotion until death".

Who knows... how long she pondered over her own scroll?

The external concept of time is completely meaningless to girls who practice the "Seventeen-Year Cicada".

Shi Yan suddenly felt a pang of pity for Yun Susu.

But... at the same time, Shi Yan suddenly felt that Yun Susu's abilities might be unexpectedly "useful".

Something like time stopping.

"Xia... Xiaxia's jar has a hole in it."

"Under normal circumstances, it might remain dormant until the Dragon Soul depletes before the jar is filled."

"To repair the jar, we need to awaken the Dragon Soul. But... to awaken the Dragon Soul, we need to fill the jar first."

That's a vicious cycle.

If Shi Yan wanted to force it, he might have to expend a lot of energy to keep watering the girl's jar, awakening the dragon soul, and... maintaining it until the dragon soul repaired the "jar".