"Half a year ago, my life was very tranquil, sharing meals with Grandpa, practicing martial arts, studying mathematics, and then playing and frolicking with my younger brother. The high walls of the Xue Family were sturdy and safe, I could only see the sky above and the peaceful days."
"I thought such days would continue forever."
"Just like a lady from an aristocratic family, growing up, becoming more beautiful, and then marrying a husband of the same noble lineage, taking care of the household, transforming from miss of a certain family to another family’s lady. But, that day when I went to the private school to see Changqing..."
Xue Shuangtao said, "That guy, just unreasonably barged into my life, turning my originally tranquil days into complete chaos. He dragged me to skip the tea gatherings of the ladies from prominent families, to go horse riding, to participate in the people’s festival on a rainy day, and had me climb trees."
"Upon reaching Jiangzhou City, he became the leader of the Great Sacrifice, inherited a hereditary duke title, flattened the Ghost Market, endured humiliation, killed Tantai Xianming, rescued General Yue, and even rode a Qilin to break out of Guan Yi City."
The young girl spoke softly, then extended her hand as if she could still see familiar figures, saying in a trance, "He has become so distant, so distant."
"At first I thought I was just like a girl under high walls looking at the flowers and grass, day after day, then suddenly one day, a cat fell from the wall. Starving yet showing its claws warily, I was happy walking around holding this cat."
"But later, I realized it wasn’t a cat; it was a tiger."
"I merely happened to see a Flying Eagle land in the courtyard, then thought that this bird could accompany me, but how could a Flying Eagle stop here? It would flap its wings and fly up high. Should I cut its feathers so it stays here forever?"
She held that feather and said, "I wouldn’t want that."
Chen Qingyan looked at Xue Shuangtao.
The promise of their youthful days, uncertain if it could continue, he would keep moving forward, by his side would appear friends, comrades, and followers, eventually striding far away, racing through the world, while she remained in Guan Yi City, unable to accompany him.
Xue Shuangtao looked up, the heroic young woman holding herself up yet revealing a bright, warm smile, softly said, "I just hope he is well."
"Whether I am well or not, it doesn’t matter."
As autumn deepened, Li Guanyi, after defeating Yuwen Tianxian and passing Zhenbei City, found time starting to move extremely swiftly. The young general, after daily training, feeling bored and listless, simply began using the language from his past life to record the military journal.
Great Emperor’s Record·Tenth Year of Divine Revelation, early October.
[Leaving Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect]
[Troop expansion, the original one thousand six hundred Qilin Army, five hundred Heavy Cavalry, together with the prisoners, numbering over four thousand, passing through Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect, directly became five thousand four hundred. Damn, just an increase of approximately a thousand people, why does it feel like my brain is exploding?]
[My commanding ability, I reckon, is around five thousand, any more than that, and my brain can’t handle it.]
[Anything more would cause a collapse.]
[The Qilin Army entered deep mountains and temporarily lost communication with the outside world. Nangong tried to go out but didn’t achieve anything. However, the mountains are rich in resources, especially during autumn, Elder Shi, Mr. Lei, and others tried using their methods to find things that could be made into dried rations.]
[Shi Dalin and others, I don’t know how they did it, made nuts and grains into a mass, then martial artists with fire property Inner Qi forcibly dehydrated it, creating something like compressed biscuits.]
[In those days, scouts couldn’t make fire outside and had to eat that.]
[’Damn veterinarians,’ I think they can’t escape this nickname anymore.]
[Found Elixir recipes in Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect, Elder Shi and others are studying at full speed, but their methods are too rough, I don’t know who taught them, they seem to have developed the habit of arbitrarily dismantling ancestral elixir recipes and adding their own style.]
[Really a bad habit, who indulged them?]
[The Alchemy Masters and Pharmacists from Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect seem to have had a bit of high blood pressure recently.]
[Additionally, some of the safe martial arts from Yin Yang Reincarnation Sect were publicized.]
[Among them, the [Yin Yang Chaotic Steps] and seventeen other martial skills were approved by Grandpa, together with the "Taiping Book" and "Qilin Sword Skills", as the foundational martial arts repository for the Qilin Army; anyone can practice them. Pingyang seemed somewhat surprised; Yue Family’s Heavy Cavalry also chose some special martial skills.]
[Luckily, Elder Pang is not at home today.]
[Nor is he home tomorrow.]
[Tonight’s dinner consists of some kind of root vegetables ground into powder, served with squirrel soup and nuts.]
[Mr. Lei’s cooking has improved.]
Great Emperor’s Record·Tenth Year of Divine Revelation, November.
Li Guanyi’s military journal entry began with explicit language.
[The omnipotent Mr. Lei discovered there are lots of insects in autumn, the guy deep fried the insects then added them to dishes, and the brothers only knew after they had eaten; inspired by this, the Seven Old Ghosts processed the insects then mixed the powder into the compressed rations.]
[Another note: The Seven Old Ghosts are not allowed in the logistics department.]
[In the military kitchen, neither the Alchemy Master Team nor dogs are allowed to enter.]
[In the past month, pacified seven bandit lairs, which can’t really be called bandit lairs anymore, there aren’t many people inside, and the outside is just a battlefield between two nations; after inquiry, found out that these were villages that fled up the mountain after they couldn’t survive in their hometowns.]