Chapter 25: The Insult

The smile on Shangguan Wen’s face remained, but his words had already grown cold, like the bitter wind beating at the window outside.

Su Tang smiled as well. Though her face was still pale, there was not the slightest trace of fear in her expression. “My lord speaks truly. Since this is meant for the Grand Tutor, it concerns life and death itself.”

“Life and death?” The smile faded from Shangguan Wen’s face.

Ji Wenjue, who had been drinking tea at the side, slowly lifted his eyes. “Whose life and death?”

Su Tang looked back at him. “This commoner’s.”

Qin Mu wore no expression. Within him, the Immortal Fire was surging madly, while the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him was devoured into his body and refined at astonishing speed.

The energy was warm and immense, vast and billowing. Qin Mu immediately felt his whole body swell, his bones and meridians tingling with a faint heat. Though strange, it was like warm sunlight pouring over him, incomparably comfortable.

At that moment, Nana Kelongyi, who had been surrounded by the mounts, also woke up. He patted the mutated flying python and once again mounted it to rise into the air. “If this barbarian really is as Brother Seth says, and truly took down Lenkadono alone, then losing to him would not be unjust.”

Back then, just because of that single line, he had been led so astray that he could no longer see north from south. Now this fellow was using the same trick again; how could he bear to let Yu Qiyun fall into the same fate?

When the moment finally came, Zi Yao, who had always been strong-willed, began to grow melancholy and troubled, wavering with anxiety and doubt.

The sun is a chameleon too: red in the morning, white at noon, golden at dusk.

Why was Ouyang Long looking at this region with such gravity? Could there be something here worthy of special attention?

Just as Yang Zhan was staring in a daze, lost in fascination, Yan Chisu suddenly stopped, then turned and left without a word. Yang Zhan lingered at the cave entrance for a while longer, but never saw her come out to practice her sword again, and so had no choice but to climb down in disappointment.

“So you not only run a wicked inn, you also kill people. It seems there are many secrets behind this Quicksand Inn.” Yang Zhan said warily.

By the time Shen Wutai reached the gate of the courtyard, the smell of medicine, strong enough to overpower even the heavy snow, nearly drove her back. Pinching her nose and enduring it for a long while, until she no longer felt like vomiting, did she finally dare to step inside.

The news spread, shaking court and country alike. There had never before been a case of an envoy dying unjustly in an assassination. The Crown Prince quickly gathered the three judicial offices to investigate; the Ministry of Justice sealed the guest residence, and the Chen envoy, who had only just entered the city and met the Crown Prince, was forced to share lodgings with the General at Azure Robe Temple.

Once everything had been moved into the large private room, Liu Xinyu went to the hotel entrance again to inspect the signs the hotel had put up.

The profit-sharing contract had also won approval from the company’s chief executive, so Chairman Qin had now more or less completed his task.

Li Xingchen hated killing ordinary people in war, and now, apart from Donghuang Rumeng and the King of Japan, the royal house had been wiped out completely.

Lin Yuan’s voice was very soft, but to the other person it sounded like thunder, startling him so badly that he shuddered all over.

When Xia Zhiyi heard this, she understood that Jiang Xinyuan had mistaken her for one of the company’s entertainers. She did not want to waste time explaining, and simply pretended she had heard nothing.

Han Yubai said nothing aloud, but in his heart he was still very happy. In his world there was only his mother, and his father was treated with the same unchanging indifference as ever.

Gu Mingchao clicked his tongue repeatedly. “It’s a real pity the two of you never became husband and wife. With the two of you, those minds of yours are denser than a wasp nest. Truly...” As he spoke, he even rubbed his arms.

At first she had been unwilling. Later, after seeing that well, for some reason she changed her mind and insisted that Aunt Wang carry her there.

So long as the marriage was restored, Hu Lina secretly swore to herself that she would never stray again, and would live properly with Gu Beicheng.

With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the attack of the magic seal, and was just about to use the sage’s divine sense to search the whole of Mount Pelam, when he suddenly heard a crashing roar outside the Purple Cloud Palace, with a faint dragon’s cry mixed in.

It seemed to have come from the endless ages before, weathered by the erosions of time, its whole body filled with a desolate aura, while everywhere proclaiming splendor and glory.

Originally, she had told Ruyi that she wanted the emerald-furred fox to create an illusion of the White Snake’s appearance, forcing the one behind the scenes to emerge for the jade seal, so that they could take the opportunity to find her brother.