Volume One, Chapter 102: I Can Make Her Love You Again

The Xie clan.

“Mother, brother has been drinking for several hours. Is he really all right?”

The one leading troops out of the dim street was Jinhuan Sanjie herself, the very instigator of this incident.

Ever since she made a stir by forging the tabby Lihua into a sword spirit, someone had to be restless about it. Even if they knew an ambush awaited, they would still send people to find out what was going on.

He did not push the matter either; he did not insist that Liu Qi come into the city. If Liu Qi had made arrangements for his own safety, that was hardly unexpected, and he had long believed Liu Qi would never agree to such an invitation.

Liu Chenglu sat on the old master’s left, Huo Qianying on his right, and both of them were serving him food in their own way.

Junyan only managed to say that one line in haste, because right then Lingtai, shaken by fear, had already sent him a warning message.

Li Mo did not know whether she had heard him. At that critical moment her own batch of pills was in its pivotal stage, and she could not tear her concentration away from it.

Xin Shicheng had also ordered her to wait in Fengyang Prefecture without fail, saying Hua Jiu would surely be there. A mountain hermit, he said, always has a trick of his own.

After searching for so long, Junyan still found nothing. It made him uneasy. He worried about the other two. Zuo Qinglian might be all right, but the young master Wan, unable to handle his cultivation with ease, would not let Junyan rest easy. If an accident happened here, how could Master Wan save himself?

Qing Zijing sat in the second seat. The first was empty, while the third was occupied by Li the Ronin.

Li Mo’s meridians all showed signs of tearing. That kind of pain can never truly be understood by anyone who has not felt it. On top of spending a whole night in a frantic escape, she was even angrier and more humiliated.

My Wind Shield broke apart, and at the same moment more than six hundred points of life-force damage exploded at the top of my head. As expected, the leather armor could not withstand such an assault; it would have drained over 3,600 points of my life in one shot. Fortunately I had Wind Shield up, otherwise I could have retreated to the city.

At the instant their four gazes met, Chu Xiu and Mu Wang spoke together: “It is you?” and then both gave a light laugh.

A shadow suddenly fell before him, covering more than half the light. Chu Xiu looked up toward Danxin, whose backlit face was partially obscured, and saw her eyes swollen red, her features drawn and exhausted, her expression that of someone almost broken by grief.

As the two stood staring at each other, Mo Fei could hear He Xuanxuan’s heartbeat pounding clearly, like war drums sounding before two armies charged.

Situ Yu’s expression tightened, as if he had remembered something. He quickly flashed a signal to Si Chen. Si Chen immediately understood and brought the leftovers of the once-divided twice-cooked pork to him.

She did not know where Lian had learned about that person, yet this idea… might not be a bad one. Whether in waking life or in dreams, she truly wanted to see him again—even if the two had once parted in bitterness.

The two reached the PK grounds and entered the PK chamber. The PK rivalry among ten sub-alliances was already in full swing, and by afternoon they were likely to begin the top-one-hundred PK relay matches. Those top hundred would receive rewards beyond Zangyue, along with a fixed monthly salary.

As the saying goes, love of a household may extend even to the crow upon its roof. Although Jing Ruoyun and Tian Sheng had no relation at all, her fondness for Mo Wentian and her trust in Tian Sheng made her unconsciously treat him as her own junior brother-disciple.

If people like Zhu Chongjun were merely tied to a certain faction, then they could simply be exposed and let pass. But if Zhu Chongjun and his men had truly entered the capital with hidden intentions, then Pei Laoshi should be taken down at the same time—or eliminated outright.

In the Five Domains Continent as it is now, there is no longer any Heavenly Punishment. Even the worst of evildoers seem beyond the reach of Heaven’s laws. It feels as if those rules have already fractured.