Volume One, Chapter 103: Paddy Field

Yeting’s home was right next door. The two families were on good terms, and she often came by with little gifts.

Mother Ye also treated her like a daughter of her own, inviting her for meals every few days.

Ghost cultivators followed the path of refining soul spirits. They had once been human, and only after death did they become ghosts. So even when devouring the souls of cultivators, they tried to choose human souls whenever possible. Otherwise, if human and beast souls became mixed together, the difficulty of advancing would increase.

They regarded the soldiers atop the city wall as their prey, because if they killed them, they would have food to eat.

Wutong narrowed her eyes and looked ahead to the west, where the battle had spread from the mountain summit down to the foot of the mountain. Within a radius of several kilometers, including the sky above, it had already become the heart of the battlefield.

Gastly was no stranger to telepathic communication. It and its own kind spoke through psychic power; this was an innate ability shared by most Ghost-type and Psychic-type creatures.

Ye Ying roughly understood the principle behind the map hidden within the green crystal handcuffs. Places she had already explored would appear, while unexplored areas would not.

Compared with the Silph headquarters building, which stood more than thirty stories tall, the building directly across the road had only eleven floors. Its entire exterior was dominated by black, yet its design was full of futuristic flair, with clean lines and graceful proportions.

Pei County lay some distance from Pengcheng. Even following the imperial road, the journey would take more than half a month. But they were in no hurry; after all, the world now belonged to the King of Han.

Ye Ying did not ask what he was doing. The two of them had fought together for so long that they already understood each other’s intentions. The climate in the Great Wilderness Domain changed drastically between day and night. By day it was as hot as a furnace, while at night it was as cold as an icefield. Jin was preparing to drape the fox pelt over himself when the cold came at night.

The bullet followed the trajectory of Rem’s energy blast. Under the gunfire, a tree with a trunk more than twenty centimeters thick toppled as well, slanting straight across the middle of the grove and becoming a barrier.

“Can Your Highness eat that much?” Yu Yuancui frowned. Though the Duke of Yong had lacked talent before, at least he had spoken decisively and kept his word.

“How could I not? I prepared plenty!” Chu Nuo gazed tenderly at the remarkable man before her. The rare smile at the corners of his lips was for Xia Yang’s friends, and she was delighted by it. At the very least, he knew how to respect her younger brother and give him enough face in front of his friends.

“Since you can’t go to school anymore, and this is all because of you, how about this: you come shopping with us instead,” Sun Hui said after thinking for a moment, then looked at Ji Yingying.

Moreover, though his face was stern and cool as ice, his eyes were bright, his back straight, and his spirit vigorous. He looked just like a young man.

“Good! This king will grant your wish!” A starving camel is still bigger than a horse. The Chaos Black Flame Beast still had confidence in itself.

Just as he was fretting, he heard a burst of footsteps from the end of the corridor. He turned excitedly, but the words that rose to his lips caught in his throat when he saw the scene before him.

The soft sword in Xiao Ziyue’s hand blazed brilliantly. With a sweep, sword light like a storm of petals rained down fiercely, crackling as it struck the phantom of the spirit shaman.

After Chun left, everything seemed quiet, but by then night had already fallen, and the person who had taken the medicine slowly opened their eyes in a daze.

On the moon, it was the lava beam fired by A-Du and himself that rescued X from within Bemstar’s body.

In any case, sleep had already been driven away by the two phone calls. Ming Sheng suppressed the irritation in her heart and swiped to answer once more.

Still, if another candidate heard this, they would probably accuse her of showing off. Fortunately, Shu Zhendong and Xu Xiuyun were not candidates, so they merely took it as her being modest.

He had been working overtime day and night for so many days, rushing to finish everything before the twenty-sixth, saying that he would go with his wife to Suzhou to visit his grandfather, with gifts prepared and a surprise arranged.

He jumped in alarm, secretly marveling at how an old man could possess such a piercing gaze.

The army of the Duke of Shu, despite being equipped with excellent weapons, hardly had any fighting power before the Xuzhou garrison.

Director Wang sent them off with a smile. Only after they had gone far did he let the smile fade, toss aside the form, and place a call. After exchanging a few words with the other side, he hung up and continued idling away his days at leisure.

But just as the old black-blade man broke through the wall and fled, a prompt box for a status panel appeared before Liu Xin.

The gentleman burst into tears, wailing miserably again and again. Fang Caihe’s eyes also grew damp. She pulled the sobbing Fu Xiangxue into her arms and cried out, “Sister Xiangxue, Brother Zhu Zhihai is truly trapped in a sea of bitterness with no way out. And who knows what else the gentleman still has to say next.”

The door to the conference room was shoved open with force. A computer monitor and its host machine, wrapped in a gust of wind from a wind-element ability, flew steadily into the room and were placed upon the long table.

The sound of beer glasses clinking rang out. The three of them raised their beer glasses with one hand, exchanged a smile, and then drank deeply.

Ning Miaoxuan lunged forward to catch her, but suddenly the person who was about to fall opened her eyes. A needle appeared between her fingers, and she drove it viciously into Ning Miaoxuan’s skin.

“In any case, since we’re idle, and the show is over now that the leads have all left the stage, why don’t we play a few rounds of cards?” Han Yiwei stretched lazily and, seeing everyone sitting on the sofa merely chatting, found it rather dull and made the suggestion.

He did not want to remain a useless man at the mercy of others, unable even to protect the most important people in his life.

He knew better than anyone how difficult this matter was, which was why she had already arranged everything. Once she obtained the share her mother had left behind and handed it to Linlin, she would be able to perish together with the man before her.

The onlookers, hearing that someone had dared to step forward, had thought the excitement was about to end. Instead, they suddenly grew spirited and began chiming in one after another on what Wei Bao had just said.

Yu Qiao also knew she had spoken out of turn. Frightened, she shrank her neck back and quickly decided that fleeing was the best course.

Because she had already made an appointment with the proprietor of Juyuan Workshop yesterday, when the time drew near, Yun Luo slipped out again.

When she had strangled her moments ago, she had truly felt death closing over her. She had not even felt a trace of threat from Luo Qingchen. She felt that if anything were truly to happen to Nian An, she really would kill her.