Volume One, Chapter 28: In the End, I Still Underestimated You

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By now, he was desperate to conceal and gloss over the matter. Once Chen Ping and the others left, everything would become much simpler.

As he spoke, Chen Xiang hurriedly rose to his feet. After taking two or three steps, he put some distance between himself and Xia Weiwei, then let out a long breath and finally relaxed.

Bai Jiu said, “Benefactor, we have repaid the kindness you showed us. I gave you money, fame, prestige, and merit. I am taking back the incense burner. From this moment on, we owe each other nothing.”

Bai Jiu extended his right hand, and the incense burner flew into it of its own accord.

More frightening still, when faced with the combined pressure of so many experts, he had actually managed to withstand it on behalf of Manor Lord Jiang Li.

“It’s nothing. Your dog isn’t very obedient, Yao Yao, so I helped you teach it a lesson.” He Tianyu gave a contemptuous laugh.

As for how much power mental force could retain, and how long that residual power would remain, it varied from person to person. Fu Xin speculated that the higher one’s level of mental force, the greater the residual power and the longer it would linger.

As for Grandfather Fu’s request that Fu Chuanlin study and train alongside him, Xie Yun felt a little regretful that his private world with Fu Xin was about to disappear. Still, he understood which matters were more urgent and important, and agreed to it as well.

Then a plan occurred to Zhan Huilan. She drew over the nearby wine server and quietly whispered a few instructions.

This was a low-level pupil technique, similar to hypnosis, capable of briefly controlling the actions of ordinary people with weak mental power.

From time to time, blood arrows shot into the air between the two battling sides, while furious shouts and agonized screams echoed through the dense forest.

When Meng Fanfei saw this, he too swallowed hard and hurriedly stepped forward.

“Eat something. Once we’re done, we’ll have to prepare for war against the Daqi army,” Xiao Yi said淡ly.

Yet the girl could not contain her laughter. Like an influenza virus, it quickly spread to the others, until the remaining four were also trembling as they struggled to hold back their amusement. They had clearly recalled what had just happened.

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By then, Gao Mingyuan had arranged everything from the cardboard boxes in its proper place.

Liu Chen had been wondering how he might get into space when, unexpectedly, Wu Qi appeared. He heard from the others that Wu Qi’s uncle was the academy’s director of instruction.

Everyone present knew that after this parting, they might as well be entering separate worlds, with almost no chance of ever crossing paths again.

Su Xiaoqing changed her clothes in a few quick movements and went downstairs to fetch a thermometer. When she returned, she discovered that Gu Xiaoran had already finished brushing his teeth and come out.

“Principal Jiang… Well, I suppose we can say we became friends after fighting. From now on, we’re friends. If you ever need anything from us, just give us a call. As long as it’s within our power, we certainly won’t refuse!” Xu Chuan declared, patting his chest.

While cursing the mad dog inwardly and deciding to kill him later, Dong Chuan still had to explain matters to Chao Luohua first.

Elsewhere, quite a few people were also discussing what had happened over there. Hearing the faint murmurs, Zhang Ruoyu and the others all grew tense.

In an instant, memories surged through Tatalupas’s mind. The timeline continued moving forward, causing him to remember many things from the past. Whether from before the War of the Gods or from after it, when he had arrived in that place, memories seemed to emerge of their own accord, beyond his control.

At that moment, there was no embarrassment on Cultivator Qian’s face over having fainted before so many Qi Refinement cultivators. Instead, his expression was filled with disappointment.

“Attack.” Locke had no time to listen to its nonsense. With a wave of his hand, the twenty-one ghouls waiting nearby pounced like ravenous wolves. The pompous frog was thoroughly terrified. It had only just tried to move when they knocked it to the ground and began savagely tearing into it.

However, although the temperature here was extremely low, the flow of people was astonishingly heavy. A vast city had grown up around the Seltins Mountain Ravine.

Having made up his mind, Wei Wuji no longer dwelled on the matter. He shifted his attention to the False Core cultivator before him. With a beckoning gesture, the white-bone spike and white-bone shield lying on the ground, along with the storage pouch hanging from the False Core cultivator’s waist, all flew into Wei Wuji’s hand.

As fate would have it, there was a pool in this stone forest, roughly five or six hundred meters in diameter. Its water was dark, cold, and piercing to the bone, and no one knew how deep it was. Yet it never ran dry: its level did not fall during droughts, nor rise during the rainy season, as though the bottom of the pool were connected to an underground river.

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Seeing how utterly spineless the twenty traitorous lackeys kneeling in a row were, the colonel in charge of the execution looked at them with undisguised disgust. He shouted out the order, and another burst of gunfire rang out. When it ended, silence descended.

But after watching them demonstrate, Locke discovered that the orc skeletons were no different in function from ordinary skeletons, while their movements were even slower than those of humans. Most importantly, they could wield only heavy equipment such as double-handed axes and warhammers.

With that, Xue Youcai had done everything a father could possibly do. Lu Xiaohang understood that Xue Youcai had said all this because he did not want Xue Bingqian to worry if she found out. He also intended to entrust Xue Bingqian to Lu Xiaohang’s care.

After the Grand Princess and Yaqing heard the whole story, they exchanged a look and fell silent for a long while. They were deeply concerned about the intelligence of this imperial couple.

Earlier, when he had met with Gao Renjie, he had not had time to offer Xu Li any warning or advice. Now, recalling Madam Xu’s words, he had come to find Xu Mei. He wondered whether there was still some way to make amends, while the ship had not yet set sail and any necessary instructions could still be conveyed immediately.

They arrived at a private room on the third floor. Its position was excellent, directly facing the main hall below. If there was a performance downstairs, everything could be seen clearly. It was evident that the madam considered the two of them important.

But that was not why Murong Yanyu had come here. He had always kept his sights on Italy’s financial market. Only when he occasionally wished to go out for a stroll did he realize how inconvenient it was to have no car.

The guards looked at one another, but none dared to move. Over all these years, no matter how powerful the Xie family was, Wei Mingxu had still preserved Wang Jingsheng’s position as Chief Imperial Guard Minister for the sake of Ninth Sister.

The army officers all sat together and ate their meal. Zheng Xin took the lead in lightening the mood. He had a clownish personality, and whenever the atmosphere needed brightening, it was almost always left to him.

“Let me tell you something in secret. I’ve made up my mind. If the young lady truly goes to marry into another kingdom, I’ll go with her!” Haitang changed the subject.

“Ron, do you remember? About Teacher Lilisa,” Norma said. As she spoke, she smashed one of the jars. The liquid that spilled out was much like wine, but its smell was exactly the same as the residue in the wineglass of the dead man over there.

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