Chapter 98: Leave First

Zhao Yuan saw this and let out a sigh, relieved that she was no longer in immediate danger. He then set Zhao Ling’er down. Seeing her condition, Tu frowned, came to his side, and checked her pulse. It seemed that some force inside her body was slowly awakening, but none of them knew what it was. It looked as if they would have to go to the next place.

“There is a place that can determine exactly what that thing inside him is,” he said. “But getting there is not simple. You have already passed the White-Robe trial, and there are three more you must pass. I truly do not want you to touch the spirit beasts of Tianshan, but there is a place where you can cultivate.”

There seemed to be something unspoken in his words, and then the few of them exchanged glances.

Lu Yu poured all the power he could use into it, but nothing happened—no feedback, no change. Helplessly, Lu Yu sat cross-legged and stared at that ringed mark, thinking deeply.

That was what the two of them truly could not understand. As for the suggestion that Lang Chi was motivated by selfishness, in this situation it could only be speculation. It could not fully persuade them to rush off to Tengshe with the child. If the facts turned out otherwise, the consequences would be something they could never accept.

Jiang Shunan turned on the stairs and looked at her. From her angle he was two steps lower, yet she was only one or two centimeters taller, almost level with him. From that angle she could read the emotions in his eyes far more clearly.

Aunt Qian had no idea what Jiang Cha meant to do—the gap from marbles to fish was too great—but she still reported the facts honestly.

Now that she had entered the core of the company, she no longer needed to be constantly yielding as before. As long as she stood in the core, let the board and the shareholders see her ability, let those people recognize her and believe she could run the company, the Jiang Group would naturally return to her hands.

“None needed,” Chi Qiushui said, calm and still. “With Ying Fuxi’s strength, she can handle it herself.” He remained in an armchair, untouched by all of it. He then lifted the white jade cup and took a light sip of tea, utterly indifferent to everything outside, as if it had nothing to do with him.

The intangible, formless turmoil of the mind-monkey and wandering heart ignited instantly at the center of the violet light. He spent all the spiritual energy in the phantom of one Golden Elixir.

Otherwise, like in Old City, one could only bathe in red mist and still never make friends with the skull dragons in the sky. The Wraith’s completion level was not high enough to extract a more specific ability.

Shen Tiandong picked up Momo, snacks in his hand, and walked toward the doorway with Sun Honglei.

Only after Liu Jun gave his assurance did everyone’s held breath begin to settle.

He had thought that if he had committed no crime, no one could touch him, not knowing that Sage Kong could kill a person with a few remarks—and those remarks were delivered only after the killing.

So even if Gu Caiwei had nurtured more and more feelings, she would only throw tantrums in the Wang Mansion and had never actually gone back to live there. That Liu Jun spoke first today seemed beyond reason to her.

When Chen Ziyu heard her father’s words, disbelief was written all over her face. She could not believe such words could come from the man she had revered most.

Jiang Yifei only furrowed his brow. He said nothing at the moment, but in his heart his opinion of the old man became very poor, even to the point of doubting whether the clan elder had been right to let him inherit the Great Emperor legacy.

The couple strained their necks to look over, but before they could see clearly, the child was immediately blocked behind Zhou Yao.

Above the sea of thunder, human-shaped lightning appeared again. Compared with the last time, when they had crowded densely in, this time only four figures appeared: the Ruthless One, No-Beginning, Great Yin, and Great Sun, each holding, respectively, the Sky-Devouring Demon Kettle, the Bell of No-Beginning, the Human Emperor’s Seal, and an Imperial Tower.

The heavens were kind that night; it was a cloudy night with not a single star overhead, the moon itself only dimly visible. The darkness around was so deep that with an outstretched hand one could barely see five fingers.

When Chen Gang reached the outside of the Feiying Association mountain camp with his men, dusk had already darkened. At two or three hundred meters from the gate of the camp stood a makeshift thatched shelter. As Lao Kui explained, this was the temporary tent that Xu Shang had built there with the bandits of Fohu Fort.