33 My Unfortunate Childhood Friend (6)

Page 1 of 3

Hearing this, Zuo Ruotong laughed twice, but he had not come this time merely to show off.

“…” Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Yang suspiciously, but agreed in the end. After all, Gao Ruone had once served as Deputy Commissioner of the Privy Council and was indeed qualified.

With the main tent at its center, an area extending several hundred meters in every direction had been completely burned to ash by the “Heaven-Burning Inferno.”

The Three Unity School’s former path emphasized the reversal and unification of essence, energy, and spirit. Its general direction was certainly correct; it was only that, upon reaching the second stage, no one knew where to go next.

In a place like the Upper City, where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, it was no easy matter to have a workshop like this as one’s base.

Lin Yuwan wept until she nearly fainted. After she fell asleep, the husband and wife returned to the main courtyard to discuss what should be done.

At that moment, Zhao Yang saw Zhang Yaozuo standing outside the principal office on the far side of the courtyard, chatting and laughing with someone. Their voices carried all the way to him.

He certainly was not there to eat. Several members of the Complete Nature Sect under Wugensheng were still in the vicinity of Mount Qingcheng and had not gone far. If the two sides happened to run into each other, he would lose the training equipment he had finally managed to find.

The invitation had been sent on the tenth day of the month. Huang Zhixin had been delighted to receive it. She had been fretting over having no chance to speak with Yan Wu, never imagining that he would send her an invitation himself. It truly felt like finding what one had sought after searching everywhere. She hurriedly ordered her maidservants to prepare the clothes and jewelry she would wear to the banquet, feeling that she had drawn two steps closer to the Third Young Master Yan.

If Zhao Yingqi made Jiao Yuxiang his queen, Zhao Yang would make him the shortest-reigning king since the founding of the Nanyue Kingdom.

Ye Shao did not bother answering the burly man. He drove two punches straight into him, knocking both men to the ground, then charged inside with Han Xue.

Da Guozi still had no idea what was happening. He merely glanced blankly at Chen Yulin, then at the father and son, Chen Zhuangchang and Chen Zhuangchang’s son, looking completely at a loss.

The entire stone-cutting hall erupted. Everyone rushed toward the rough-stone section of the gambling hall, apparently afraid that moving too slowly would cost them their chance to strike it rich.

At Wu Ming’s words, the expression on Feilong’s face instantly darkened.

Page 2 of 3

Director Wang had been left with an especially deep impression of Su Yang, because Su Yang had miraculously returned to life after being pronounced dead by him. Ever since that incident, Director Wang had etched Su Yang firmly into his memory.

He stared at Lei Zhan in disbelief, wondering whether Lei Zhan was joking—or whether he would suddenly shoot him the moment he reached for his weapon.

The generals could not understand his concerns. Even Ding Feng himself could not quite understand why he, who commanded one hundred and eighty thousand elite soldiers of the Heavenly Might Army, would fear Prince Ning, who led no more than seventy thousand men.

“What difficulty could there be? Who does business without caring about money? Just go to the street and find someone who makes fake documents, then have him produce a batch of identity cards,” Yueying said dismissively.

The shadow seemed to possess eyes, ears, a mouth, and a nose, but its limbs and body were not made of bones and muscles. It looked more like a mass of condensed black mist.

Tiansheng froze. He had somehow ended up here without understanding how, yet he had never asked how he was supposed to return.

“Zhizhi, Sui Yin said he would only agree to inherit your father’s company if the two of you got married?” Before this, Bu Yishu had never heard Ning Zhi mention anything of the sort, which made her suspect that Sui Yin had some other ulterior motive.

One day, after you had finally been given two steamed buns, an old man as thin as a skeleton and hunched like you suddenly sprang out and snatched them away. You were already so hungry that you could hardly endure it. Acting on instinct, you charged forward and beat him with all your strength, taking back the buns and devouring them.

The days passed one after another. Apart from working, eating, and sleeping, Lin Fan did nothing but practice his swordsmanship. He spoke to no one. During that time, Ma Wuming and the others came to cause trouble for him several times.

They also drew blood for testing and discovered that it was still an inherited, sudden mutation and enhancement of the prion virus—a product formed by combining the toxin with a plum-blossom virus.

Min Yoongi and Hu Weiran knew exactly what Muzi was like. When they heard her say this, they paid no attention to it. In any case, the instant noodles she had cooked were edible.

What no one had expected was that Bai Xiaobai would actually become angry over it. He had even shamelessly thrown a tantrum in front of everyone. If he had not been such a great help, she certainly would not have let him off so easily.

Suoxin looked at the two people before her. Watching their interaction, her thoughts began to wander. Could the two of them be a couple? Had they come all the way to this remote corner of hers to avoid attracting attention? The way she looked at them changed instantly.

“Wait! Aren’t the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect of Mount Hua part of the same school?” Lin Fan asked in astonishment.

Page 3 of 3

Of course, Azure Dragon also understood that the tiny R Nation and Huaxia were worlds apart. The forces concentrated in the capital were naturally far greater than those in the other regions.

“Hey, so I don’t come looking for you, and you don’t come looking for me either?” Several days later, Gu Pianpian called me. The moment she spoke, she began reproaching me coyly.

The black-robed steward chuckled. “You’re a newly inducted disciple of the True Hall, aren’t you? No wonder you don’t know about essence stones.” After saying this, the black-robed steward began explaining them to Zhang Ye.

Master of Heaven-Tilting Peak stood beneath the bodhi tree in the courtyard. Luo Li chose the grassland not far from his master—the very place where Patriarch Sunset Glow had once stood.

“Fine, I’ll drink it for you. Pick a bottle. Tell me which one to drink, and I’ll drink it. That should show enough sincerity, shouldn’t it?” Liu Jianjun glared at the police officer, then raised the two bottles of beverage and asked the hostage-taker.

Across both his lifetimes, he had never felt that he had anything to do with the emperor or the imperial throne. Now, however, an ancient arcane lord had appeared before him and was speaking with absolute certainty, solemnly declaring that he would become an emperor. For a moment, Penny could find no words to describe how she felt.

With intimate, hands-on instruction, he personally corrected her movements, pressing close to her body. From time to time, he infused energy into Feng Ling’er, helping her form hand seals and condense formations so that she could comprehend them more deeply.

This was not to say that giants were untrustworthy. It was simply that the less sophisticated among them found it difficult to keep a secret.

The Bone King said, “I’m only saying it. Who in the Three Realms doesn’t know how powerful Sun Wukong is? We’ll head in the opposite direction from him. That way, we won’t run into him, and I won’t end up as cannon fodder.” With that, he turned and walked away.

There was no suspense at all. Even his strongest attack, the most powerful one he could currently unleash, was utterly incapable of contending with the Azure Dragon Demon Emperor.