The Snow Village is the largest village established by humans living in the Frozen Snow Regions.

Five years ago, due to a disaster, the five elders of the Frozen Snow Elder Mansion merged all the human villages living in the Frozen Snow Land into the Ice Village.

What was originally a village of nearly 10,000 people has expanded into an ice and snow city with a population of nearly 200,000.

Because of this, more and more problems are emerging.

The differences between the indigenous people and the migrant people are too great, not only in terms of work and life, but also about where they live.

The Ice and Snow Village, where the elders are located, is not too big in the first place, and it can be said that it is precisely because the Elder's Mansion was established there that it will develop into a village of nearly 10,000 people.

The Ice Village was not intended to be inhabited by too many people, it could accommodate about 20,000 people at most, and if the population was too large, it might completely destroy the existing order of the Ice Village.

Therefore, when the elder ordered the integration of the villages, the head of the Ice and Snow Village immediately organized people to build one wooden house after another on the periphery of the Ice and Snow Village.

The village chief did not expect that the disaster that occurred at that time would actually make it difficult to collect the rich magic stone mines in the frozen and snowy regions.

Many merchants and families related to the Philosopher's Stone have evacuated from the Frozen Snow Realm. Only the natives and some other merchant families with little to do with the Philosopher's Stone remained, and only two native families were left in the Frozen Snow Region who guarded the remaining Philosopher's Stone veins.

Due to the disaster, the remaining 10,000 people in the inner village have nearly 200,000 people trying every means to fight, grab and occupy. It's not for anything else, it's just to be able to live in the inner village of the Ice Village, so that you can get the light for a long time

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A ray of soft light shone through the glass window on the second floor, Gao Xiu's closed eyes, Gao Xiu frowned fiercely, opened his eyes a little helplessly, stood up and sat on the bed with his back against the head of the bed.

After Gao Xiu was fully awake, he subconsciously looked at the eye-catching light source, and the curtains that originally covered the glass windows were blown open by the breeze, and a soft light shone into the dark room.

The curtains made of coarse cloth shook gently in the breeze, and the light that passed through the gap between the two curtains danced like a thin band that would glow in the dimly lit room.

Gao Xiu picked up the two slices of bread coated with jam on the dinner plate on the bedside table and smiled helplessly, he didn't expect Xiaoxing to want to go to the market so much, and he didn't hesitate to play such a small trick in order to get up early.

Gao Xiu took a big bite of bread and walked towards the window, and when he walked to the window, there were only a few crumbs left in the bread in Gao Xiu's hand.

The two almost overlapping sounds of "brush", and the curtains used to block the light were quickly opened by Gao Xiu.

The golden and silver world instantly came into Gao Xiu's eyes, the snow-white ground and the golden sky reflected each other, and the originally monotonous snow-white world seemed to warm up after adding golden soft light.

Gao Xiu didn't go to admire the woods with ice crystals hanging on the branches and glittering in the golden light, nor did he listen to the beautiful chirping of the ice birds in the morning. All he saw was Nebula in the snow, holding a wooden sword and practicing the basics of swordsmanship

The basic movements of swordsmanship, such as diagonal slash, horizontal slash, oblique slash, upward picking, straight stabbing, and downward sweeping, are almost perfectly displayed in Xingyun's hands, and it is impossible to find the slightest mistake.

After a while, Nebula, dressed in a white T-shirt and blue shorts, gasped for white air in his mouth after practicing a set of swords, and the beads of sweat on his body shimmered slightly under the refraction of the soft light.

After sticking the wooden sword into the snowdrift under a nearby tree, Nebula found a section of bare roots under the tree, and after clearing the snow with his hands, he sat down in prostration.

Nebula's hands and feet kept trembling slightly, I don't know if it was because of the cold, physical exhaustion, or both, Nebula's body trembling gradually stopped after resting for a long time.

"Xiaoxing, well done! That's it for today! Let's go take a shower, and we'll be visiting the market in the inner village later. Gao Xiu opened the wooden door on the first floor and shouted loudly to Xingyun, who was about to continue practicing.

Hearing his brother's voice, Nebula's tired body seemed to be refilled with fuel and ran quickly to the bathroom in the back room, grinning very happily at Gao Xiu on the way, Nebula had just sat under the root of the tree and looked weak, and he didn't know where he had already run away.

Gao Xiu glared fiercely at Nebula's back, Nebula pretended to be lazy when he was training for the first time! A child who loves to lie is not a good child!

For the sake of the face that the basic swordsmanship has been basically completed, forget it this time.

In Gao Xiu's eyes, Nebula's swordsmanship foundation can already be regarded as flawless except for the lack of strength, who would have thought that this almost perfect master-like movement Nebula only took four and a half years!

It's just that after this, do you really want to continue to teach Nebula how to use Dou Qi? Although it is said that Nebula never gets bored or refuses to be assigned tasks every day, sometimes the absent-mindedness during training is real. What the hell is going on in Nebula's little head

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Gao Xiu took Nebula's little hand and walked on the road to the inner village of Ice and Snow Village, and Nebula seemed to turn into a cheerful bird chirping non-stop.

Gao Xiu smiled and listened to Xingyun excitedly speaking incoherent words, and from time to time Gao Xiu also said a few words to Xingyun and answered the questions raised by Xingyun by the way.

"Brother, what kind of magic is that big ice cube floating in the air?" Xingyun shook the small hand that he was shaking with Gao Xiu, and pointed to the huge round ice cube exposed in the fog above the village in the distant Ice and Snow Village with his other hand, and asked very curiously.

The huge cake-shaped ice cube is engraved with cumbersome and regular magic inscriptions, and the golden soft light spreads from the center of the ice cube, and the ice and snow village looks so peaceful and happy under the illumination of the light, and the ice and snow village seems to be a happy village!

Gao Xiu patiently explained to Nebula: "It's a hybrid magic array that combines ice magic and space magic inscriptions. Using the principle that the lens can refract and concentrate light, the magicians used space magic to set up several huge ice chips that can reflect light at a height of 4,000 meters in the air that can contact the sun, and then gather the light to a point and refract it downward.

Gao Xiu, who was talking happily, couldn't help but smile dumbly when he saw Xingyun's expression that seemed to understand or not, it seemed that he had really recovered a lot, and he actually said so many difficult words to a child who didn't understand anything, which reminded him of his previous appearance.

Nebula pouted and thought about it for a long time before he could come up with a reason, what kind of space system, magic array, magic inscription nebula was not clear at all, for the little nebula, the ice cubes that floated in the air and would emit light were more magical than anything else.

"Magic is magical! What exactly is magic like? Nebula muttered as he looked at the intricate magical inscriptions on the huge magic array in the sky.

Gao Xiu was stunned, could it be that Nebula's wish was

"Na! Brother, how do you know so much about magic? When Xingyun found that he couldn't understand what Gao Xiu said at all, he immediately changed the topic and asked Gao Xiu.

Gao Xiu was obviously stunned when he heard Xingyun's question, and said to Xingyun with a smile: "That-that's because I'm an adult!" Adults live a lot more than children, so it's not uncommon for older brothers to know a little more than you! ”

Nebula wasn't very satisfied after listening to Gao Xiu's explanation, but he just asked random questions to divert the embarrassment of his ignorance, and Nebula didn't delve into it.

The two of them chatted while walking slowly towards the inner village of the Ice and Snow Village not far ahead

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There was no light in the frozen snowy region, and the thick fog obscured the light of the sun's setting, but the arrival of a magician hundreds of years ago had changed all that.

He designed a magic array that could attract sunlight from a height of 4,000 meters, and used this magic array to allow sunlight to penetrate the haze and scatter sunlight in all corners of the village.

Since then, villages large and small in the Frozen Snowy Region have set up such magic circles, because they only need to be put in the magic stone to operate on their own.

At that time, the frozen snow region was a rich source of magic stones, and of course, you didn't have to worry about things like magic stones that could be picked up anywhere in the mining area.

And now that the magic stone veins are on the verge of exhaustion, even if they are fully mined with all their strength, the remaining magic stone veins can only supply the operation of the magic array, allowing the soft light to barely cover the entire inner village.

The inhabitants of the inner village have to pay a monthly fee for the mining and use of the magic stone by the Gretel family and the Iris family, so the only people who can live in the inner village for a long time are wealthy people such as merchants and nobles who can afford it.

People living in other villages can only survive on charcoal fires, but this is not always the way to go.

For a period of time, almost all the people in the outer villages rioted in order to get the light, and it seemed as if they were preparing for a revolution.

The elders of the Old Mansion couldn't stand it anymore, and they took out a little of their savings and half of their monthly salary to buy Philosopher's Stones through the outside world. In order for the magic array to shine farther away.

However, it was impossible for the elders to make sacrifices for the inhabitants of the outer villages all the time, so they decided to increase the number of Philosopher's Stones every three days of the Ten Days, which were the three days of the Ten Holidays, so that the light would scatter throughout the Snow Village.

Therefore, the three days of ten days off in the frozen and snowy region are also called bright days by people in other villages!

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Merchants present certificates, family medals, adventurers show medals or certificates of rank, workers show certificates of employment from shops or families, and people from other villages are not allowed to enter.

It's just that this annoying rule can be said to be a fictitious rule on the two days of the Ten Holidays, because the Illuminati will shine on the entire Ice and Snow Village, and there is no need to worry about people from the outer villages flocking to the inner village.

Therefore, on the ten-day holidays, the guards at the entrance of the village will not be too strict in inspection, and most of the time even people from other villages can enter and exit freely.

"Yo! Glaar, isn't it a ten-day holiday? What are you doing here? Among the two guards guarding the entrance of the village, the eldest bearded uncle greeted Gao Xiu and asked curiously by the way.

Gao Xiu smiled gently at the one-eyed uncle with a hideous scar on his head and said, "Uncle Scudder I really don't have a job today, I took this little guy to Erinas to have fun and buy some items by the way." ”

After Gao Xiu finished speaking, he pulled out Xingyun who was hiding behind him and rubbed Xingyun's short blue hair, and Xingyun could only obediently call out to Scud Uncle, and then glared at Gao Xiu with eyes as if he had been betrayed by someone close to him.

With a beard, a hideous scar on his forehead, and a black blindfold on his right eye, Scudder is indeed a child killer.

Scudder looked at Nebula, who was hiding behind Gao Xiu, and couldn't help but smile bitterly when he realized his terrifying appearance, but he still waved his hand to Gao Xiu and Nebula and said goodbye later.

Gao Xiu also smiled and waved at Scud, and he grabbed Nebula's small hand together