Volume One, Chapter 29: Did You Drug Me?

Zhou Ciyu sneered, released Lu Zhaoxi, and shoved her in front of Feng Xiu. “Are you fucking blind? Take another good look at who she is.”

Feng Xiu had drunk quite a lot. He squinted at her for a long while, then pushed away the woman in his arms and rose to his feet.

“High Priest, why did you summon me?”

When Han Minghong saw Fan Nuo’er’s corpse, not the slightest change crossed his face, as though she were not someone who had spent so many years by his side.

“What is that? It looks like an Ice-Sealing Arrow from the Moonlit Palace. Could it really be one?” someone said while backing away.

Before the people outside the formation could truly make their move, Jiang Feng struck first. He used the formation to absorb their vitality, then increased its power and converted that energy into attacks against those beyond its boundaries.

He thought the girl was about to attack him again and hurriedly reacted, raising a hand to block her.

“It seems I’m not the only one looking for Young Master Yang. Ruyan alone wouldn’t be enough, and I can’t compete with the others, so I had to find another way. I thought I might try my luck in this alley.”

At the same time, she felt utterly helpless. She clearly did not want to rely on anyone, yet in the end she discovered that she was completely useless, incapable of doing anything well.

The precious cultivators who existed in the mortal world like living immortals were now wounded or dead. From time to time, they tumbled from the sky like birds with broken wings, their lives cheap as ants’.

The gaunt man immediately rushed up to you. He had just begun to point at you when an extraordinarily powerful hand seized him. In that instant, the knife-wielding guards were effortlessly subdued by Lu Dai’s men.

Wang Er’s chest bulged conspicuously. He pulled out an unremarkable coarse-cloth bundle. After glancing back to make sure the private-room curtain was tightly closed, he opened it. Inside gleamed a packet of golden leaves.

The children looked at their mother, hesitating over whether to keep her company first or go inside. Feng Luan instructed the steward, “Prepare my sedan chair.”

Guo Pu hurried away, while Feng Luan remained behind to arrange for the household to entertain the guests.

It wasn’t only me. Tie Yong and Chenxi beside me had clearly been frightened as well. All of us stood there like wooden statues, staring at the stone wall. We even forgot to change the batteries or turn on the miners’ lamps. Clearly, none of us had expected the wall to glow. For a moment, we were all so astonished that we could not move.

Because the Heavenly Law was unfathomable, Feng Ye was now merely an ordinary mortal. He had no idea where the limits of the mysterious primordial Heavenly Law lay and did not dare interfere too much with the course of history, for fear of provoking its backlash. He had only one life, after all, and Feng Ye cherished it dearly.

Up to that point, none of us had guessed that he was Chenxi’s and my father. Perhaps it was his bearing, perhaps his appearance; in any case, our thoughts had never gone in that direction. As it turned out, he indeed was not.

“Uh…” When Jiang Hong saw the more than ten utterly ordinary objects and the low-grade pills lying quietly on the ground, his brows suddenly drew tightly together, and his eyes filled with disappointment.

Chen Yi’s strange, comical movements made Murong Qing and Murong Ping giggle. After giving a short bow, they followed Chen Yi’s gestures toward the riverbank where the fire was burning, and Chen Yi naturally followed at once.

All the black-clad men suspended in midair knelt down, bowing low toward the shadowy figure with their heads pressed to the ground, looking utterly obedient.

Yet whatever he thought of came to pass, for Liguangzi rushed in at that very moment and nearly collided with him.

Before the emotion in Chu Chen’s heart could fade, roar after deafening roar erupted like peals of thunder.

Wu Zetian did not mind. Trusted ministers like Chen Yi were allowed to visit the rear garden of the Daming Palace whenever they wished, places they had never been permitted to enter before. He had even secretly gone swimming in Taiye Pool, becoming increasingly awestruck by the scenery and architectural arrangements within the palace.