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“Yin Hu, let’s get going already, or Lao Shu3 will have your hide for it” Within the procession, the shortest lasses grabbed onto the waist of thehimself up onto the other’s shoulders
“Goddaet beautiful women while I’m stuck with an obscene male like you Oh, the heavens are unfair!”
Under that indistinct radiance, the delegation of 13 took a mere ten minutes to cli at the summit of Mount Everest Atop the brilliantly white ice cap, they stared into the depths below, the bitter snoind unceasingly buffeting their bodies
The red attiredalone at the peak of the region, he appeared despondent Having evidently arrived first compared to their adversaries, the twelve individuals orderly positioned therave expressions
The red attiredSuddenly, he lifted his head, his body treaze shot towards the south like an arrow
At this ently rose fro the suht as a feather She stopped in front of the red attired man and the twelve individuals ere spread out in the shape of a half-crescent behind hi to re as if his entire existence depended on it
As if she was on a blossoic cloud, the wosa it seeauze Her faintly discernible white jade skin it aze upon her With an oval face that was clear as snow in addition to lustrous, beautiful oceanic eyes, a dainty and delicate nose, and slightly upturned, plump cherry lips, she possessed the most exquisite facial features in the entire world Her delicate, slender body was akin to perfection Her slirasped with one hand, and her beautifully slender legs drew sighs of admiration Her exquisite curves were faintly shrouded by white light that bri violet hair was natural—not bleached or dyed It drifted down her back like violet silk At this aze met the red attired man’s Misty violet eyes brihtly biting her lip
The edsh and said, “Twenty and nine wonderful years, a beauty exceeding that of three springs With wispy violet hair, and eyebrows akin to two crescent moons Rosy cheeks as white as jade, verly tall, but yet not short Not sallow, and yet not fat Fair of temper, and fair of heart A newborn s in a dress of thin gauze that rippled and pooled gently down at her feet”
The violet haired wo in a traditional Chinese dialect, she lightly said, “You finally arrived earlier than I In all honesty, I have never wished for this approaching battle”
The red haired man’s voice was still low “Nevertheless, this battle would have come in due time When all’s said and done, we are the Twelve Guardians of the Zodiac, who guard the East, while you guard the West Our faiths are not the same” His voice, other than a few hints of world-weariness, sounded ee
The violet haired wo, “Yes For the sake of our charge, we cannot back away” She slowly lifted her right hand, flicking it softly A slender scepter fell into her hand out of thin air This siolden luster The scepter slowly rose into the sky, a deep golden ray of light eolden flash of light dissipated the snowy fog, and the air around them was clad in a pure and holy aura
The red hairedrays of faint gold light He suddenly released a dazzling and tyrannic red aura, tepidly saying, “Your subordinates have also arrived Today, the Eastern Zodiac and the Western Zodiac will battle—and so shall we Yu Mou, between us, both sides are in the wrong, and yet both are not wrong, wouldn’t you agree?”
Yu Mou lowered her head and said, “Your East is divided by the Twelve Earthly Branches, but the West doesn’t follow the same scheme We are differentiated another way We use the constellations as a guide In a sense, we differ to some extent from your twelve earthly branches We divide the path of the sun into twelve, with each constellation approxirees Because every constellation once endary Sun God Apollo’s dons”
At this tiures flickered from the southern slopes of Mount Everest All of them appeared somewhat corpulent As they neared, it was clear that they were carrying immense chests on their backs for some unknown reason
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