Chapter 21
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After an extravagant shopping spree, Han Yi was left with only a little over three hundred mid-grade spirit stones.
“Today is my sixtieth birthday, and I am delighted by the blessings you have offered me. I thank you all here today. This cup contains the finest Bamboo Leaf Green wine. Allow me to toast you.” With that, the Empress Dowager raised her cup and drained it in one gulp.
Fei Yi lifted the faintest smile, warmed the jug of wine, and then deftly used her first soul skill to waft its fragrance toward Dugu Bo.
“Child, take this piece of jade. If you ever find yourself in trouble, bring it to the Ji residence. Do you understand?” Zhou Banmeng placed the jade into Nangong Yue’s palm.
He looked toward Fei Yi, who had known his father, but she was earnestly roasting the meat in her hands, showing no intention of discussing anything with him in depth. She even signaled to Dugu Bo from across the room, telling him not to continue.
Amid a thunderous uproar, an enormous war machine beast appeared in Xu Tianzhi’s arena, accompanied by a deafening roar.
At worst, she could return to the life she had once led and earn silver by working as a hired hand. Still, Chen Jing had seemed rather clever lately, so why had he chosen this time to challenge Ning Rong to a poetry duel?
Gu Yan bit her lip and opened her mouth, desperately wanting to tell her mother what had happened that day beside the moat.
Lin’s parents were clearly impoverished peasants struggling at the very bottom of society. Their faces and hands were marked by the hardship and weathering of life.
Everyone was thinking the same thing. Yet whether they had not had time to speak or simply could not bear to discourage him, no one said a word at first—not even Old Master Tang.
Zhang Qianqian was one of Xingyu’s people, a newcomer whom the company was heavily promoting. She had already become quite famous; all she lacked was the accumulation of time and experience. Since she had gone this far, Xingyu immediately set its public-relations team into motion to protect this money-making asset, presenting Zhang Qianqian as a dream-chaser—a star pursuing the footsteps of her idol.
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Noticing several heated gazes directed at her, Lan Li calmly put the shrimp into her mouth. She swore that she would never dine with these people again. It was sheer torture: the conversation was bizarre, the atmosphere at the table was bizarre, and even Young Master Cheng seemed completely out of character.
This was entirely due to his body-manipulation technique. An ordinary person would never have been able to rush out so easily while under suppression.
Fortunately, there was no one on the Ling family’s staircase at that moment; everyone was on the first floor. Thus, she encountered no one else along the way.
“Thank you, Caroline. I think that whatever decision I make, I will never allow myself to suffer,” Yan Ruoyi said, looking at her with a smile and a nod.
“If my guess is correct, the beast tribes beneath this desert only appear on the night of the full moon. That means we must hold out until dawn!” Su Ruoxi said as she watched the enormous desert venom scorpion emerge before them.
When Lan Zekai approached the European-style villa, he still did not know that Ye Shulei had rested there the previous day or that Yuan Ye had been responsible for her injuries. After seeing the post on the microblog, he thought about what a boyfriend ought to do and ultimately followed it with a message of his own: “I would trade my entire life for your innocence.”
Mo Yang thought it over. If the Young Madam’s affairs were kept from Lu Chenhao, something truly disastrous would happen later. He therefore bent slightly at the waist, intending to tell Lu Chenhao about Nan Xia.
The person who had worried two days earlier that opening the door would bring no business was Bai Xiaotong. Now, the person blaming Tang Rao because business was too good was also Bai Xiaotong. Tang Rao no longer knew whether he had owed Bai Xiaotong something in this life, or what it could possibly be.
That very night, Grandfather breathed his last. His eyes remained wide open, and no matter how much we wiped them, we could not close them. My parents were terrified and brought an elder from the village, but in the end, even he could do nothing.
The stars that filled the sky had originally been a luminous silver. The moment they came into contact with Qin Lang’s nosebleed, they were instantly stained crimson, and the color rapidly spread.
The wondrous jade disk vanished, and with it, the Heavenly Dao’s vast, all-seeing eye covering a radius of ten thousand feet dissipated completely.
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Fortunately, they were only superficial injuries. I instantly breathed a sigh of relief and hurried over to pat Ye Ning, preparing to wake her. But then, without warning, I heard a whimpering sound outside the car window.
Confused, I drew my brows tightly together. But that was not the end of it. Once the spiders had formed the house, they paused for less than half a minute before changing again. The house became broken and dilapidated, then paused for another half-minute.
“Since you’re here, take a seat. Table Eight. Chao Xia, keep an eye on Liu Sanxing for me. If he gets drunk again, you’re not welcome in this bar anymore.” Tong Chiyun spoke to Chao Xia.
The moment they heard the name Chen Tianming, both the Sect Master and the heads of the other three academies could not help but show astonishment.
At the same time, something changed within Geng Bucuò. Beneath his skin, something seemed to shimmer with a dark glow, resembling scales.
Ji Tian had now achieved the status of an Immortal Dao Venerable and was utterly fearless. He had become an immortal by merging with the Great Dao of the physical body, and his combat strength was terrifying. So long as the Daluo hidden behind the scenes did not appear, Ji Tian believed he could roam unhindered.
Uncle Geng caught sight of Lu Zhanyan and nodded to her. Then, without making a sound, he withdrew and walked farther away, giving them room to talk.
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