Realms In The Firmament

Those dominant sects like the seven great sects always had strict rules so they wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen to them. However, Sky Ice Palace was almost in a world of their own. For many years, only disciples or masters in the leadership came to the palace, so the work of guarding the palace was the most boring and most comfortable job in the sect. Even though the two girls were spending time on their own practice, not guarding the entrance, nobody would blame them for not doing a good job.

The two girls were right in the middle of a fun fight. It didn’t look like a practice battle, though, because they were playing the swords in some really weird ways. They even laughed and talked from time to time. Instead of practicing, they were more like playing.

Suddenly, a clear and soft voice sounded, “Excuse me. Is this Sky Ice Palace?”

It was a man’s voice!

The two girls exclaimed because of surprise, jumping into the entrance and hiding behind the gate like two panicking birds. After a while, they sneakily showed their heads and looked out.

Ye Xiao was amused.

[Are they… the people who are guarding the entrance?]

[No way… Aren’t they just two funny kids?]

[It is their good luck that I am not a wild beast or anything terrible… Otherwise, they may have been shocked to unconsciousness and became well-cooked meat in the plate.]

“You… You… Are… Are you a man?” The two little girls’ eyes looked extremely clean and pure. They stared at Ye Xiao with anxiety in the heart after asking a question that Ye Xiao would never have imagined they would ask.

He was entirely speechless now.

[What? Do I look like a woman?]

However, he didn’t say it out. In fact, he didn’t know how to answer the question because it was unbelievably frank, so he just nodded.

“Oh wow! He is a man!” The two girls actually jumped up and clapped each other’s hands. “This is a man… which we have only heard of from some stories…”

After that, they hastily ran out and kept looking at Ye Xiao from head to toe, clicking their tongue and saying, “So this is a man? Let me have a look… What is the difference between us anyway?”

The two girls looked at Ye Xiao for a while and then asked, “Hey, man? Can we… Can we touch you?”

[Touch me?]

Ye Xiao was freaking out.

[Touch me? Wait a minute! Do you think you can just touch me?]

[Where are you going to touch? What do you want to touch? It is improper for men and women to touch each other! Don’t you know that?]

The two girls were reaching their hands over. Apparently, they decided to touch him before he answered the question. Ye Xiao nearly yelled for help.

[Oh heavens… Oh, my motherland… I, Xiao Monarch, used to laugh upon all heroes in the world! Today, I am actually harassed by two little girls here!]

In the end, because he was so helpless, he decided to shout, “Jun Yinglian! Come out here!”

That was abrupt! His voice was like a thunderclap, shaking the air within several hundred miles and the snow off the trees on the mountains like an avalanche.

The two girls were suddenly frightened and stepped back a few steps, whispering to each other. “Men have a thunderous voice. I heard that men are stronger than women. It turns out they are also louder…” one girl said.

“That’s right. Look at him. There was a bump showing up when he shouted. We don’t have that ugly thing,” the other said while touching her own throat.

“Oh right… That is true. We don’t have that! Luckily we don’t!” the first girl said again.

“That’s not all… Look at his breasts… That is flat and weird…” The other proudly looked at her own chest.

“How can it be so flat. We are the worst among the sisters, but we are still better than him. How does that draw a shape of his body properly? It is lucky that I am not a man. Otherwise, I would have killed myself!” The first girl disdainfully twisted her lips.

“Well, his skin seems alright. It looks smooth and fair…” The first girl pulled her clothes and looked into it. She took a breath of relief, “Well, not as good as mine though.”

That was arrogant. She seemed to praise Ye Xiao but, in fact, praising herself!

“You are better than him, which means I am definitely better than him!” The other looked at her own skin too.

Apparently, there was always a more arrogant one. The two girls were both pretty swellheaded about their own prettiness.

“Oh… His waist is so thick. That’s bad. Look at us! We are well shaped!”

“That’s right. It is useless and ugly to have a thick waist!”

While one was criticizing, the other agreed.

“Wait, his buttocks are pretty tight though. I wonder how it feels to touch them… It could be good…”

“That’s true! It looks pretty good… I want to rub it…”

…

Ye Xiao was done listening to them anymore.

[Can you stop criticizing? My buttocks? Really? We are not so familiar to each other yet…]

[Rub them? Come on…]

[Which part would you want to rub if we are closer to each other? Say if we are friends?]

[What is the problem with my waist being thick? I am a man! Isn’t it reasonable? If a man doesn’t have a big waist, how does he do well… on… that thing!]

[Help!]

Luckily, after a while, a few figures flew out from the buildings inside the palace.

It had been quite a long time since anybody shouted inside Sky Ice Palace!

These people were coming to see who was so bold!

However, in front of the several people, a lady looked pretty excited and emotional, flying fast like a shooting star. After several hundred meters, she abruptly landed before the entrance of Sky Ice Palace.

She stood right in front of Ye Xiao.

Suddenly, Ye Xiao was lost in it.

He felt like he was back to the scene in his memory again…

In the world of snow and ice, a beautiful lady in white, whose hair was long like a waterfall, flying over from far away, eventually stopped in front of him and stared into his eyes obsessively.

Ye Xiao couldn’t tell which was true and which was the memory.

Jun Yinglian was standing right in front of him, watching him with love and surprise in the eyes.

– Shoot, shoot, shoot… – Over a dozen more figures appeared in the area, and were all staring at Ye Xiao on the face.

Suddenly, they burst into exclamation.

“Xiao Monarch?”

“Ye Xiao?”

“Holy heavens…”

“Isn’t he dead?”

“What is going on? Is he back from death?”

“Oh, my heavens… Am I in a dream…”

Everybody was shocked, with their eyes nearly popping out because of the astonishment.

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