We agreed that I would be married off to a short-lived general, but why is my husband so powerful?

Upon realizing this, Wen Qingci couldn't sit still any longer.

If the Yue family won't be implicated and can still live well, then all her troubles have been for nothing, haven't they?

Wen Qingci's feelings at this moment were both complex and simple.

Ultimately, it was just that she left her in-laws, whom she considered a living hell.

Looking back, he worried that his wife's family was a trap and that he would suffer a loss.

But if the in-laws' family is a pit of fire, then I worry that I will suffer in the future.

Therefore, her feelings were indeed somewhat complicated.

As for the matter of her divorce from Cai Zhixing.

Wen Qingci felt a little regretful.

But things had come to this point. After experiencing all these unpredictable events, Wen Qingci understood that in the end, she could only rely on herself.

As for her younger sister who married Yue Lingyuan in her place...

Wen Qingci wanted to find out about her, but unfortunately, he couldn't find out anything.

It's as if this person doesn't exist.

Wen Qingci was not the only one who cared about Wen Rushi.

And there's Cai Zhixing.

After Yue Lingyuan returned to the capital, Cai Zhixing began to frequent the vicinity of the General's Mansion more often.

Unfortunately, the general's mansion was in mourning, and not a single female member of the household left the house.

Cai Zhixing naturally wouldn't see Wen Rushi.

While several people were thinking about him, Wen Rushi, thousands of miles away, was focused on his cultivation.

After going into seclusion, Wen Rushi's cultivation level began to rise rapidly.

She devoted all her energy to cultivation, completely oblivious to everything else around her.

Yue Lingyuan and his group, who were far away in their hometown of Jiaozhou, had heard the same story.

After settling into the old house, the siblings went into the mountains and found a mountain with good spiritual energy, where they cultivated day and night.

After traveling for so long, Yue Lingyun and Yue Lingshan wanted to relax and take a break, but seeing their elder brother and Xiang Ying start cultivating immediately upon arriving at their hometown, the two of them couldn't help but feel a little pressured.

Yue Lingshan has good talent, but she's a little less talented than her older brother.

She didn't want to fall too far behind her older brother, which is why she cultivated so diligently.

Although Yue Lingyun wasn't particularly talented, he had the incredibly hardworking Xiang Ying by his side.

On the way here, Xiang Ying successfully guided Qi into her body.

Thus began her relentless cultivation, day and night. After this period of arduous training, she was just one step away from entering the first level of Qi Refining.

To put it bluntly, with a little effort, it's not impossible to surpass Yue Lingyun's first level of Qi Refining.

As a man, he even entered the profession before Xiang Ying. If he were to be surpassed, wouldn't he be laughed at?

Therefore, Yue Lingyun, who was always restless, had no choice but to cultivate day and night as well.

Of course, they were different from those who had already abstained from grains.

Eating and drinking are essential every day.

In addition, due to the lack of spiritual energy, the speed of cultivation can be described as snail-paced.

However, since even this slight progress resulted in combat strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, no one complained about the slow progress.

However, this peaceful period did not last long.

The following winter, because the snow on the grassland came earlier than usual, all the tribes on the grassland, large and small, suffered disaster.

The starving barbarians turned their attention back to their old neighbor, the Great Jin Dynasty.

Initially, General Li, the newly appointed garrison commander of Longmen Pass, did not take the barbarian attack seriously.

He thought the barbarians were just making a small fuss this time, like before.

Unexpectedly, after several battles, Longmen Pass fell in just one month.

At this point, it was too late to seek help from the capital.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the garrison commander not only failed to lead his troops to stop the barbarians from entering the pass, but instead simply fled with his men.

Running away like this is like leaving your front door halfway open, letting robbers in.

From then on, barbarians rushed into the pass, committing all sorts of atrocities, including burning, killing, looting, and plundering.

By the time the news reached the Yue family in Bingzhou, half a year had passed since it traveled from north to south.

In just over a year, Yue Lingyuan and the others managed to improve their cultivation by a small margin.

Even the most advanced cultivator, Yue Lingyuan, has only just entered the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Yue Lingshan has reached the third level of Qi Refining.

Yue Lingyun and Xiang Ying have reached the second level of Qi Refining.

They are all at the early stage of Qi Refining, stronger than ordinary people, and could easily take on a thousand enemies.

However, on the battlefield, one cannot launch a direct attack when facing tens of thousands of enemy troops.

In short, they are stronger than ordinary people now, but not so strong that they are invincible.

However, the group was still quite satisfied with the result.

After receiving the imperial decree to sever his ties with the emperor, Yue Lingyuan led his younger siblings, who were capable of cultivation, back to the battlefield.

As for the two brothers, Yue Lingfeng and Yue Lingdong, they stayed in their hometown to take care of their family.

In just one year, Longmen Pass has completely changed and is no longer what it used to be.

The people inside the pass are now being plundered and slaughtered by those barbarians like pigs and dogs.

The city has long lost its former liveliness; the entire city is now deathly still.

This deathly aura is spreading towards the Great Jin Dynasty at a visible speed.

The snow cave that was once dug out atop the snow-capped mountains outside Longmen Pass has long been buried by ice and snow.

Wen Rushi sat cross-legged in the completely enclosed snow cave, completely unaware that a catastrophe was unfolding outside.

At this moment, her seclusion was at a critical juncture, and she dared not let her guard down in the slightest.

She secluded herself for ten years.

Wen Rushi only opened his eyes when his cultivation could no longer be improved.

Now, her cultivation has reached a level where she can leave.

However, she couldn't sense any reason to leave.

Originally, Wen Rushi thought it was because her cultivation level was not high enough.

She patiently cultivated for another six months, but her cultivation level did not change at all.

She was, after all, a person who had been an immortal.

Wen Rushi understood that beyond that, she would no longer be cultivating spiritual energy.

Wen Rushi was certain that, under normal circumstances, with her current cultivation level, she could leave this world at any time, but the current situation was abnormal!

Wen Rushi felt no reason to leave.

As soon as she came out of the snow cave, she looked up at the sky.

The sky was clear and cloudless, without thunderclouds or rosy clouds.

This means she can't leave here!

Wen Rushi pinched her fingers, but this time, there was no hint at all.

She looked around; all she saw was ice and snow, and no one was around.

She didn't know how long she stayed in the mountains, or what year or month it was.

After thinking it over, Wen Rushi decided to go down the mountain to take a look first.