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When it comes to love, I've never been one to drag my feet. Once I make a choice, I go for it, and I have no regrets whether I succeed or fail. I suppose this is a style I inherited from Master Huang Yaoshi. When he met my master’s wife, it all took place within the span of just three days. As he put it, "The two of us were born to be husband and wife. Why waste time with unnecessary words? If I were like that stodgy Taoist Wang Zhe (the secular name of Chongyang), I would have lived half my life in vain." I've kept these words in my heart, and later, when I developed a personal relationship with Chao Feng, I did so without any hesitation. I ultimately betrayed Peach Blossom Island, but in doing so, I indirectly caused the death of my master’s wife. The cause and effect are truly regrettable.

As for the proposal at Star Sea (the name still feels odd!), I didn't plan any engagement games. I left White Dragon Winter Night and part of the guard to watch over the magicians and returned to Fontainebleau with Katherine. I immediately gathered all my subordinates and held the wedding in the top garden of Green City Fortress.

The orc wedding tradition spans ten thousand years and is usually simple, though in recent years it has been influenced by humans and has become more complicated in some places, especially in Lionheart City of the lion tribe, which is the most luxurious. However, Katherine herself doesn't like the lavish human style, and she holds the position of Holy Maiden of the War God Temple. Therefore, the wedding followed the ancient orc traditions entirely. Surrounded by friends and family, we pledged our love to each other before the War God, with no regrets. As I am a Knight of the War God Temple's staff, and Katherine is the Holy Maiden, we didn't need a Shaman to officiate our wedding, which made the ceremony even more free. Guests included my parents and elders, some disciples, Katherine's elders, important members of Fontainebleau, elders and the chief of the Minos bull tribe, young golden eagle Siegfried, and the elusive womanizing Shaman Romeo. Only little Jin Luosha cried and needed a lot of comforting before she calmed down. It seems I might have overdone my efforts to make her attached to me.

The only surprise was that Hai Ruo, the first magician girl who followed me, wasn't in Fontainebleau. At first, I thought she had returned to the human world, but after asking around, I found out that she had recently been noticed by a powerful necromancer who took her as a disciple and brought her to the Holy City for training. It is said that her magic power has greatly increased, and she is now a level seven magician. Since necromancers split from the magician community after the "Glorious Campaign" and the subsequent "War of the Dead" didn't affect the Orc Alliance, the orcs don't have a particular hostility towards necromancers. Therefore, I wasn't too concerned, but without this clever alchemist, the development progress of the Crystal Dragon naturally slowed down quite a bit.

At the same time, in the northern country's Star Sea, I re-conscripted one hundred thousand half-orcs to build a city. Anyway, the construction of Fontainebleau is mostly completed, and a group of construction talents, hearing about the plan to build another fortress city centered around the dragon tower, were very interested and moved north. I had to send a team of wolf knights to protect their safety. As for the people left at Star Sea, I'm not too worried, especially since Winter Night and Zha have a contractual connection with me. Even from afar, I can sense their condition and naturally don't have to worry about any accidents happening.

Zha's memory of her martial arts techniques had been completely erased by the impact of the forbidden spell. I originally wanted to teach her some Hall of Light and orc spear techniques to make up for this deficiency. However, her mutated ice-elemental power is entirely different from martial qi, with vastly different operating methods. After several experiments, I unexpectedly discovered that the way this power operates in her body is remarkably similar to the internal force produced externally by the peak of external martial arts like "Golden Bell Cover." This was a delightful surprise. Actually, thinking about it, for the elemental giant born in the "Plane of Ice," ice elements are the source of life, just as primordial energy is to the human body. Since the cosmic energy is diverse, we need to train our bodies to refine the primordial energy into internal force, but the "Plane of Ice" is a pure, single-element world. The elemental power there is the same as the life force of the elemental giants. However, without a body, elemental giants can never refine this ice elemental power into a more refined primordial energy, so they are lacking in power application. But now, there is a unique mutant, a Zha who possesses both a complete body and the elemental giant's source of power. Does this mean she might be able to refine those vast ice elements into a formidable Nine Yin Primordial True Qi?

So, I taught Zha the "Muscle and Bone Transformation Chapter" from the "Nine Yin Manual." After just seven days of seclusion, she lived up to my expectations and successfully converted the ice elements into primordial energy. This internal force, however, is entirely different from the neutral and balanced Nine Yin True Qi, exuding a chilling cold from the inside out, freezing water instantly. Fortunately, her body has fully adapted to this power, and she has no problem operating other Nine Yin martial arts. So, I immediately passed on the "Pillar Dragon Yin Spirit Spear Technique" and "Great Demon Subduing Fist Technique" from the Nine Yin Manual, along with the peerless lightness skill "Phantom of the Netherworld" and "Golden Bell Cover," for Zha to practice on her own. I have great expectations for Zha's training. Unlike me, who actively draws power from the complex cosmic energy of this world and refines it, the pure ice elemental power from the "Plane of Ice" floods into Zha's body like a raging torrent every moment, ready to be used without any need for refinement. Her power has already exceeded the level of a Sword Empress, and in the future, she might rival the power of a Sword Saint, truly becoming a trump card in my hand.