Chapter 34: The Newcomer

The girl did not leave.
He could always sense her presence, yet he restrained himself from turning around.
The moonlight spilled down, casting a heavy pall over his solemn face, suffocating him, until the night cloaked his eyes in darkness, swallowing them whole.
The cigarette burned down to the end; he scarcely took a few drags before the ash grew long enough to fall on its own.
With that cigarette finished, Jiang Mugui finally departed.

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Seeing his son weep incessantly, the third brother grew anxious. I told her not to cause trouble now; it was just a bit of smoke, at worst causing some puffiness around the eyes, nothing serious. With one incense stick left in my hand, I approached the child’s feet and began lightly tapping his soles with the incense as if it were a small rod.

Meanwhile, Rong Lu’s mood darkened upon hearing the news of the assault on the Transcendence delegation. Although he was clueless about diplomatic affairs, his observations over recent days had given him some understanding of the weight the Transcendence faction held in this multifaceted negotiation.

Just as he had anticipated, at the start of the quarterfinals, when Chu Nan drew Ji Mei’er’s name, she suddenly withdrew, citing physical discomfort, leaving Chu Nan both amused and exasperated.

The crowd’s attention was drawn once more, involuntarily leaning forward, their voices buzzing with endless speculation.

This life offered him no second chance. The tea had awakened the dark demon within him, yet wasn’t that precisely what he had long desired but lacked the courage to pursue?

Indeed, they were members of the Divine Tree and Ōtsutsuki clans! Aliens! So what purpose did they have in coming here?

Out of ten enterprises, Song Anran offered twenty percent of the shares—twenty million in total—priced at one tael of silver per share, inviting officials, soldiers, aristocratic families, and private investors to subscribe.

These two bears could no longer walk; their bodies were mere skin stretched over bone. Tubes inserted from their abdomens into their insides allowed bile to flow continuously. The practice of extracting bile from live bears was nothing short of cruelty.

“Are you kidding me? Military training before shooting a film? For three months? And with the filming schedule, you have to stay in the barracks for half a year?” Qin Jinghong’s mouth could easily fit an egg.

After discussing my affairs, the two young ladies grew increasingly excited as night deepened, sharing eerie tales they had heard from elders back home. Their growing fear eventually robbed them of sleep.

His mind was filled with the image of his sister’s self-sacrifice and death, a fury so intense it threatened to consume all reason.

Having already taken action, Haotian wasted no hesitation and, together with Hei Yu, subdued all the surrounding guards.

Xu Rugu glanced back suddenly, flicking a finger to shatter the sword qi, his eyes brightening as an invisible gaze pierced through layers of fire to meet the eyes of a hidden cultivator.

With a casual wave, the air before him solidified, transforming into a transparent longsword.

Thomas widened his eyes and glared in that direction. It was Max, dressed in the Grimmsgaard Academy’s teacher uniform—a white shirt, navy blazer, camel vest underneath, and gray suit pants—known as the most renowned thinker in the field of ethics on Starlight Peak.

Song Qian’s mastery of this place far exceeded that of several others; almost every time he entered, he confidently ventured six hundred zhang deep and withdrew with ease.

After revealing the breakthrough strategy to Bu’er, Xiuxiu and Bu’er together sought out Chunhua, informing her of the life-or-death predicament Bu’er faced, as previously agreed.

There were no rules here; a single disagreement could erupt into deadly combat, with cultivators capable of killing scattered everywhere. Hence, the place earned its grim moniker: The Land of Sin.

“Heh, so this is the strength of the Divine Realm’s foremost Tianxin Body Sect? Nothing to write home about,” the man clad in mysterious robes at the forefront laughed wildly at the chaotic Foolish Heaven Sect.