Chapter 28
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As for the final secret technique, he valued it no more than the others, for he himself had mastered more than a hundred secret techniques.
Zhang Chai’s prediction had been correct. His lord, Shi Hu, had given him little time. On the third day after he returned home, an imperial envoy was sent to summon him to the palace gardens. Zhang Chai used illness as an excuse to delay for another two days. Only after ensuring that every matter requiring final attention had been properly settled did he leave home and return to the gardens.
At that moment, a mysterious smile appeared on Jie Zixi’s young, delicate, and slightly frail pretty face as she began hammering furiously at the keyboard.
The reason he attacked Chen Guang first instead of advancing on Luoyang was, firstly, that Luoyang possessed the natural defenses of the Eight Passes, and secondly, that it was too tempting a target. Once Shen Zhezhi marched west toward Luoyang, both Shi Jian in Hebei and Chen Guang in Henan would certainly fish in troubled waters and send troops to intervene.
The fat man caught it instinctively. The moment he saw the piece of jade, his eyes widened.
True qi coursed through every meridian, repairing his injuries even as it continuously poured into Wen Qingye’s bones and blood. With that influx of true qi, the bottleneck that had shown the slightest sign of loosening could no longer hold.
Su Yunli immediately flew into a towering rage. The fresh flower he had set his sights on had actually been taken by someone else first.
Wine carried in a pot, gifts of formal apprenticeship, spring robes and autumn cloaks, piglets, hounds, cranes, deer, zithers, chess sets, and other refined offerings befitting proper etiquette were placed openly on display and carried into Ji Zhan’s residence. The gold, silver, and bolts of silk that were somewhat vulgar yet far more direct were covered with cloth and brought inside box by box.
As he sighed over it, he immediately began to comprehend its meaning. The so-called way of humanity clearly referred to the path of cultivation followed by ordinary people, but the phrase “taking from what is insufficient and adding to what is abundant” was much harder to understand.
The Torch Road branch of the Divine Tyrant Crown Prince Hotel had already closed. Chen Yuanzhi had forcibly ordered it shut, and the diners inside had been driven away.
Sun Fengzhao heard only a faint “pfft” above his head. Suddenly, the air around him tightened, and an invisible force descended upon him, slamming him to the ground.
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She wore broad-rimmed glasses, and her long black hair fell straight down her back. Her fair, lustrous, oval face was framed by slightly furrowed delicate brows, while her clear eyes held an expression of utter calm and gravity.
Only she herself knew how desperately poor she was now. Without money, she feared she truly would be unable to take even a single step.
“Heh heh, I’m not telling you!” Naruto reckoned that very few people knew the secret that Ling Yun’s cultivation had survived; perhaps even Ling Yun himself did not know. Naturally, he would not tell Lele. If he were telling Duanmu Yi alone, that might be another matter.
At this level of cultivation, the sixth sense had already become an extremely important reference in battle. A cultivator’s sixth sense had always been directly proportional to the cultivator’s own level of cultivation.
This price was already the absolute limit of what he could offer. Any higher, and he would have to withdraw. His gaze swept across the room, and when he saw that most of the other bidders wore hesitant expressions and had not continued bidding, a trace of delight arose in his heart.
Jin Zhiyan casually clicked into a post and immediately saw photographs related to the confession incident. Once she confirmed that Jiang Chengce had been behind it, she trembled with anger.
Five zombies in total leaped from the buildings on both sides of the street. After briefly “conversing” with the zombie in front of Su Mubai, they made several agile bounds and arrived around him, surrounding him warily.
After a while, the other side seemed to realize that it could not hurt him. The rain of arrows ceased, and immediately afterward came a series of thunderous explosions.
However, judging from the captain’s utterly horrified and shaken expression, whatever the honored guest in the carriage had thrown out must have been something extraordinary.
A howl of pain tore from Du Baiyun’s mouth, seemingly wrenching his very heart apart. His features had twisted together, clearly suffering agony like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart.
The mech possessed an animal-like outer skin that radiated red light. It resembled a mech, yet its structure was even more akin to that of an animal.
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By now, they could no longer look at Zhuang Xie with the same simplicity as before. Their eyes held undisguised fear and wariness, along with even a measure of suspicion.
Amid the scattering flames, Su Qian’s bones were burned to ash. Until the moment he fell, he could not understand why Nie Chen had learned the Su family’s Flame Fist combat art. He seemed to have long forgotten that, back in Red Mist Valley, one of his sleeve pouches had been stolen—and that the Jade Token of the Hongshang Alliance and the Flame Fist combat art inside it had later been passed on to Nie Chen by Su Ying.
A scream pierced the darkness. Zhuang Xie steadied his mind and listened intently. His eyes immediately shone like candles in the night, unaffected in the slightest by the surrounding darkness as they swiftly caught the figures darting back and forth.
“There’s no need. I can transmit the photon concept to any device!” Wei Juan had just been about to move.
Moreover, after such a great battle, the human forces of the Immortal Realm had become more united than ever before. Although some prodigies of the younger generation had fallen, those who survived had been tempered by the experience, and their potential had grown even greater.
People mattered more than work. Although Xiang Tao’s reckless, self-sacrificing state moved Luoyang deeply, Luoyang would not support it.
But the Three-Cornered Brow must still have Jade-Cage Orchid in his possession! Relying on the orchid’s ability to ward off poison, he could hide to one side and heal his wounds. As long as his spiritual power recovered, he could fly out through the poisonous miasma above the Myriad Flower Forest. The predatory birds in the sky were helpless against fighters within the miasma, while the Three-Cornered Brow could remain entirely unharmed with the aid of the Jade-Cage Orchid.
“You mean that Ying Ziyi’s ultimate objective is my Mohist city of mechanisms?” Yan Dan asked after a brief moment of thought.
When Le Lan was clear-headed and considered the situation, she would probably have been driven to collapse with rage. But now she could think of nothing at all. The pain had stripped away every trace of reason. Even if Le Bing ordered her to kneel and bark like a dog, Le Lan probably would not hesitate for a moment.
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