Volume One, Chapter 16: The Stars Have Disappeared

Even if you strike him, the force dissipates like water poured onto sand, unable to stir even the slightest ripple.

The matchmaker seemed to know the Zhuge clan quite well. Her face flushed slightly, lips parted softly as she sank deep into her memories and spoke slowly.

A few loads of silver-threaded charcoal were hardly precious items; in the past, whether it was Tao Zhuohua or Liu Cairen, they would never have cared for such trivial possessions. But now, for survival’s sake, these had become indispensable.

Her sleepless eyes still sparkled brightly. Tao Zhuohua’s face was pale from nervousness, so she casually opened a jar of finely refined rouge from her makeup box and lightly brushed it over her cheeks. Changpu had skillfully braided her loosely tied hair and adorned the ends with a silver hairpin inlaid with eastern pearls.

If it truly didn’t matter, why had she just shown such an impatient expression?

Ji Yang had been abroad for some time and only returned yesterday afternoon. Gu Shen knew that unless there was something important, he wouldn’t use his private phone to call.

Naturally, she wouldn’t reveal these things to Su Ge. Besides, her relationship with Xiao You was, in a way, a transaction—each taking what they needed. She had given him her body; what more was there to say?

“You—you, if you kill me now, it will be a terrifying event for Demon City. As long as the organization doesn’t get my information, they will strike at Demon City. Then all of you will die,” the assassin stammered and shouted.

Anna immediately activated the magic energy projection. Sure enough, all channels were reporting the incident; even some foreign broadcasts covered it. The city of Sakura had already descended into chaos, with the Feng family and the Shuiyue family still vying for control.

Liu Cairen was originally anxious. She had escaped the palace with a double identity, a secret known only to Xu San and not even Empress Zheng was aware.

Before she could devise any countermeasures, the man sat up and placed her face down on his lap.

On the stage, the scene suddenly shifted to another view. The immersive holographic image turned into a remote-shot camera angle. Deafening cries and battle sounds erupted as the Dorn people, who had been setting up camp moments before, clashed fiercely with various grotesque beasts and massive wild creatures.

“I’m certain!” Chu Miao finally spoke, forcing herself out of bed to stand face-to-face with Gu Yan.

If he had forced himself on her that night, perhaps things would be different now. If that were the case, she probably wouldn’t love him anymore.

Yun Fan nodded. After all, so many hunters had died at the hands of the demon race. If the demon race’s conspiracy was not uncovered, it would be a betrayal to the fallen brothers, and more hunters would surely perish in the future.

After absorbing his clone, Zheng Ming quietly felt the changes within himself. He found that aside from his level returning to 24, there was almost no difference.

At this moment, Daoist Bai Hao sought to trace the origin, attempting to reverse-engineer the innate sixty-four methods from the acquired sixty-four postnatal Fuxi techniques. The difficulty was self-evident. Only Daoist Bai Hao, with profound cultivation and unparalleled mastery, could make slight progress.

He was fortunate that most of the dropped items belonged to the same category, allowing him to stack up to ninety-nine. Had each occupied a separate slot, he would truly have been in despair.

Lu Kang was momentarily stunned, almost failing to understand. But then he realized: he had regarded the other as an adult. In truth, though the other had become a “superpowered,” he was merely a sophomore in college, not yet part of society. Facing such matters would naturally be difficult.

Shao Yang was delighted. His “Purple Moon Sword” had just been rated a “low-grade magical treasure” by the system, but this long sword surpassed even the Purple Moon Sword.

Shen Fei lay on the bed, and after murmuring a few incoherent words like a dream, he fell silent again. Yet those few words plunged Shangguan Yu into a torrent of thoughts.

After this incident, all the living in the city understood the power and the danger of the Inspector.

Having obtained this set of cultivation methods, she was unusually excited and immediately began her practice without hesitation. Su Yan found this surprising; since she had no meridians, cultivating this technique should have been extremely difficult.

By then, the entire cave was filled with the shadowless soft soul smoke. In just a few breaths, the effects of this domineering and intoxicating fragrance were fully triggered, even Shen Fei himself felt a stifling heat.

In fact, the greatest difference between a true domain and a false domain lay solely in the true domain’s ability to confront stronger opponents, which the false domain could not. In other words, the false domain ruled over the weak, and the ownerless domain soil could be regarded as the weakest among false domains.

Upon hearing this, the three demon elders’ chests almost burst with rage. They had already suffered such humiliation openly, yet Shen Fei mocked them so scornfully. Proud as they were, how could they bear it?

“When the two of us lay inside the tent, Chunni insisted on sleeping on my left side. She said she wanted to hear my heartbeat and memorize its sound.”

Everything has two sides. Ancestors in the underworld can protect descendants in the living world, but if the living descendants are strong enough and the family prospers, it can likewise greatly benefit the elders in the underworld.

Truly, the arrow was already on the string; agree or refuse, it had to be accepted. This petition group was ruthless, using such means to threaten a regime—was it not a bit extreme? But from another perspective, did they really have any other choice?