Chapter 59

Consort De had always been a light sleeper; having missed her usual hour, she did not rest very soundly. Before long, she rose to dress and wash, then instructed Jinling to summon her two sons to report. The He brothers returned carrying freshly snapped peach branches from the back mountain. After having Jinling replace yesterday's withered blooms and paying their respects to Consort De, they took their seats in the lower section.

The frost snowman struck Shirley squarely in the back unawares. Her face paled, but fortunately, as an ice-attribute mage, her resistance to ice-attribute magic was exceptionally high, and combined with the formidable power of the frost snowman, she managed to avoid sustaining any injuries.

Upon returning to the car, He Chuan adjusted his seat, turned the ignition, shifted gears, and stepped on the accelerator, preparing to depart.

Furthermore, when he pulled out that object, he distinctly felt a resistance, which indicated that the fellow had also sensed it and actively attempted to stop him.

Qiuchiu burst out right behind Tao Zhuohua, distinguishing friend from foe in the blink of an eye, and started barking furiously at Huidong. Disgusted and terrified, Huidong scrambled to hide beneath the newly planted camphor tree in the courtyard.

Meanwhile, Alice clearly disliked such socializing, though she held no ill will whatsoever toward Sia. She simply smiled and nodded at Sia before retreating behind Tiger, effectively leaving him to handle everything.

Su Nu and the others now looked solely to Tiger for leadership. Seeing him step inside, they followed without the slightest hesitation.

In such a short span of time, could he have achieved all this simply by manipulating the underground flow of gold?

The region was rich in natural resources, primarily producing Vermilion Bird Stone, a crimson-red mineral well-suited for forging weapons and armor.

Just as the standoff reached its peak, a crowd of the Bu clan's members and elders hurried over. Bu Wangshu gazed at them with displeasure, her cold and striking face overtaken by anger. Having just turned forty, Bu Wangshu was still in her full, alluring prime. Coupled with her habitual meticulous self-care, she bore no resemblance whatsoever to the matriarch of an older generation.

Ayase Eli also noticed something was amiss at that point. Turning her head, she saw An Zhe staring in a somewhat dazed manner at her prominent chest, and a flush instantly rose to her cheeks.

By the time the magistrate of Penglai arrived at the River of Reincarnation, the entire Mount Ku was desolate and quiet, without a single ghost in sight.

The tall royal sister tightened her grip on the two-meter-long command blade, watching Kurumi Tokisaki's moving figure within the light screen, and issued a low, soft reprimand.

"What! You still intend to keep company with this anomaly? Surely you know your seal can only suppress him temporarily!" Yang Hao asked with profound incomprehension.

Su Xiuxiu and her younger brother were orphans without parents to begin with. Believing in the bond they shared with him, he assumed they would be willing to return to Earth with him.

In his panic, he hurriedly turned to face away from the fighting ring, shouting and crying out for help to his most gentle and reliable junior sister, Shui Yunzi. But the next moment, he realized his voice could not get through either.

Everyone present practiced martial arts, and as is universally known, spiritual energy exists in the air. Yet the amount of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy we can absorb during cultivation is minuscule. Even once absorbed into the body, it requires continuous refinement before it can ultimately be transformed into inner strength.

Even if the quality of the ever-changing necklace was lacking, his physical body possessed the ninth tier of the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art; not even a full-strength strike from a Martial King realm expert could seriously injure him.

The voice that suddenly resounded in his mind caused a slight sharp pain in the man's head, but without the slightest hesitation or pause, he turned and walked toward the bar. Familiar with the path, he turned into the hallway marked with the sign for the restrooms, walked to the very end, pushed open the bolted iron door, and stepped outside.

Lunch was chosen at the Cat's Claw Tavern; since they happened to be here, it would be unpardonable not to sample the Delamoor giant lizard.

Lin Meimian lay back down beside Shangguan Zisu, closing her eyes to rest. Shangguan Zisu, however, wore a face full of sorrow, having failed to see what she wanted to watch. Nevertheless, her hands reached out restlessly toward Lin Meimian, accompanied by a lewd smile.

Twin Flowers looked pitifully at Ding Huo, as if muttering a few lamentations about "the Dark Continent and its savages," after which he wasted considerably less time on the road.

The moment Helian Changchu saw her draw that style of saber, she knew the opponent was an expert, and thus did not dare to be careless. Feng Xuan, down below, felt a mixture of anger and regret, knowing full well that the title of the number one champion was now beyond his grasp.

It seemed that during that previous moment of passion, Qiqi had failed to control her strength, shattering a large chunk of the stone slab beneath him.

He thus intended to use his superior's orders—to thoroughly sweep, cleanse, and scour the mountainous region along the border of Hubei and Licheng counties in search of the Eighth Route Army headquarters or the 129th Division headquarters to completely annihilate them—as a pretext. He planned to track down that band of local guerrillas first and snap the neck of that cunning and sinister fellow before anything else.

Ever since returning to the Ghost-Nurturing clan this time, Xi Hongyan had been ambushed by Guixin. Xi Hongyan had originally been cultivating her own faction within the Cliff of Lost Thoughts, but the news arriving over the past two days was that countless outposts had been raided by Guixin's subordinates, resulting in numerous casualties.

"Sister Luo, should we tell the Manor Lord about this matter?" Although Mu Er had confirmed at the time that Murong Zhi was aware of Liangyue's departure, treating someone to the point where their body was covered in injuries still warranted a report of some kind.