Volume One, Chapter 36: A Slick Maneuver

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But things were different outside. With nothing blocking their view, visibility was excellent, and the distance between them was not far. Wang Chen immediately unleashed the Dragon-Seizing Technique and forcibly dragged the still-fleeing One-Armed Heavenly King to his side in an instant.

Lu Yu thought it over from every angle, yet could not figure out why. For the time being, he had no choice but to give up and leave the question buried in his heart.

What puzzled Ye Haichuan was that he actually knew this young man. He was none other than Gao Feng, who had just produced the Heaven-Shaking Roar.

Udyr replied, “Yes, my lord.” He then took out his hidden weapons and hurled them at the soldiers. Poisoned needles struck some in the legs, others in the face, and still others in the throat. Before long, more than a dozen soldiers collapsed with cries of pain.

Lin Yi’s heart began to race. He picked up the golden pill between the index finger and thumb of his right hand and held it beneath his nose, inhaling deeply for several seconds.

The Xu family could only blame their truly wretched luck. They had happened to cross paths with the Medicine King after he lost his life in a wager; otherwise, they would never have ended up in such misery.

She remembered examining Qiu Xuan’s left shoulder before and finding no sign that he had been poisoned by the Life-Ending Pill. At that time, there had been no deadly poison in Qiu Xuan’s body at all.

The unreliable man had returned, but Old Man Tou still had not come back. An Zining would rather believe that the Ximen family had done something unspeakable to him in secret than believe he had run away. That would be far too humiliating.

“Can I truly abandon my parents, my brothers and sisters, and my entire tribe to follow Yu back to his homeland? Can I really be so selfish?” Tuka Feng asked herself.

Xiao Yuyin felt her heartbeat quicken, as though it had risen into her throat. Without shifting her gaze, she stared at Ye Yun, waiting for what he would say next. She had a feeling that his next words would carry a weight she could not bear.

Though many years had passed, the grievances and tangled affections between them should have faded with time. Yet Ye Zifan’s sudden appearance and his ambiguous attitude toward her left Maizi furious. The man who had once abandoned and hurt her had now come back, pretending to care about her.

Moreover, the output of mechanical soldiers in the Asura Duchy was sufficient to meet his needs, while the casualty rate among human soldiers was comparatively low.

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The most painful thing in this world was not being worse off than dead. It was being fully capable of saving someone, yet unable to do so—forced to watch the person you loved die right before your eyes.

She clenched her fists so tightly that her fingernails dug into her flesh, yet she felt not the slightest pain.

The exchange between those complicated yet simple gazes seemed to make An Ruo understand something even more clearly. Why? An Ruo forcefully looked away. Yes, she ought to have felt happy, but another thought had surfaced and swiftly taken over her mind.

Long Zhanyan carried back an entire box of pastries that Longlong Zhuyang had packed for her. By the time she returned to the courtyard, evening was fast approaching.

“Meow.”

A snow-white cat, with only a tuft of black fur at the tip of its tail, leaped in through the window.

Before this, even he had never imagined that Asura would give him such enormous assistance. The vast cultivation resources allowed him to disregard the Supreme God entirely. The Supreme God had completely lost control over him.

For instance, there was Luo Tian, who had a mind as rigid as a straight line, or Xiuchen, whose spirit was unshakably resolute. In Xiuchen’s heart, nothing mattered more than becoming a god. Although Domingle and Xiuming possessed powerful wills, they occupied the position of young masters and had endured far too many intrigues. The slightest carelessness could allow Zhizi to beguile them.

After returning from my mother-in-law’s house, where I had taken some traditional medicine, I went home and planned to sleep for a while. But who could have known that at three in the afternoon, a sudden cramping pain seized my stomach without warning, leaving me writhing on the bed.

Qiu Yingying drank the hot soup. Though cold sweat still poured from her body, the turmoil in her stomach gradually subsided and stopped troubling her.

Still, although she had secretly hoped to see him today, if they had not happened to meet, she had never intended to take the jersey to him herself.

About twenty minutes later, he came out of the bathroom. After drying his hair, he got into bed and lay down, then embraced me from behind.

As the carriage rocked along, Xia Weixing and Madam Zhao slept in a daze the entire journey. If not for Gangzi calling out just now, they might have continued sleeping.

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Bai Tanhua strode ahead, chest thrust out and head held high. Even he felt that he looked extraordinarily dashing and masculine.

Scalding liquid, carrying a faint salty taste, fell onto their tightly joined lips and seeped into both their mouths.

Although it was the beginning of the school term, there was not much to do. After registering, one only had to go to the classroom to meet the homeroom teacher and classmates and collect the timetable; afterward, it was possible to go straight home.

My palms sweated throughout the journey. I was immersed in the joy of seeing Luo Ange soon, yet I was also genuinely afraid of having to face his family.

Although they had been separated for seven long years, they still loved each other in their hearts. There was no need to force some melodramatic twist into the story. If they loved each other, then they should simply stay together.

“How had she failed to think of that before? That girl Baby really does have the most schemes,” Luo Yiyi thought to herself.

“Then let me take a look at her appearance and see whether she is worth wagering on. How does that sound?” Ning Baobei asked in a conciliatory tone.

When he entered the tent, Weihe Qiqige had already put on her clothes. Yet all color had vanished from her face. When Li Yang came in, she merely glanced at him with lifeless eyes, then stared straight off to the side without saying a word.

He chose another road. Because he had once visited Yanlan’s apartment, he knew the surrounding roads extremely well. After eliminating every unlikely possibility, he hurried along the route he believed to be the most correct, hoping that he might encounter Yanlan.

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