Chapter 98: The Goose-Pear Scent in the Curtains

The defending general of the Golden Phoenix Kingdom’s border city also grabbed the city’s own garrison commander and dragged him out through the doorway.

“You... how did you know the city seal of Floating Cloud City was a bell stone?” Zhao Lian trembled inwardly, staring at Su Jie, who had taken on the appearance of an ordinary man, in utter disbelief.

Her words sent a shock through Shui Yu. The moment she let him go, he turned at once, gathered her into his arms, and kissed her lips.

After Leng Yue fell silent, the whole room grew eerily quiet. The atmosphere turned even more oppressive, and the stillness, so profound that one could hear a pin drop, only magnified the fear in the hearts of the remaining few. That kind of pressure could drive a person mad.

“Damn it. Of the Three Thousand Laws, the most powerful thunder arts cannot be used because of this corpse-demon body!” Luo Wuqing said with a sigh as he watched the vengeful spirits rushing at him.

Nie Rong continued to stay at Master Nie’s residence, waiting for Master Nie to find him more helpers.

It seemed to be pleading for something. In ancient times, the Kui Bird had been food for the dragons, and its fear of the dragon race was the deepest memory left within its instincts.

“You still dare say that? Say another word and I’ll ignore you,” Wu Xinxin said, stealing a sidelong glance at Zhang Sanfeng as she spoke. Only when she saw that he did not seem to care did she let out a long breath of relief.

At that moment, a chill rose in his heart. From the Celestial Master’s reaction, this evil immortal was absolutely a deeply troublesome foe. If it were released, the consequences would be endless. Though he was confident that, under the seal of Heaven’s Way, no one could kill him with his own strength, Yanyan and the others would surely be in danger.

And the man from Taiwan now being assessed by Wu Jiaheng, the one in the baseball cap with the surname Shen, was plainly the latter.

At present, the only issue, or perhaps the only regret, was that Shen Juan rarely replied to her messages on WeChat. He acted as though he could not be bothered with her, and every time he took half a day or more to answer, the conversation ending up broken and scattered.

One family after another sent people to call on Li Ya, all of them inviting him to join their demon-slaying teams. Li Ya refused to see any of them. He only spoke to the visitors from behind the gate, neither rejecting them outright nor agreeing.

He had come with a mission and would need to give an account before leaving. Especially since the troublesome nature of the devil lord’s retainers differed from one to another, and the methods for dealing with them were not the same. He needed certainty.

This great figure was extremely mysterious. Though he had not openly declared that he would deal with Fu Chengyu, the key links in the evidence chain, along with the attitude taken toward all related business cooperation, suggested that this powerful person had already brought the situation firmly under control with an iron hand.

Shen Yizhou’s furious voice rang out, and the refined air he had so painstakingly created shattered in an instant.

He did not notice that not far from the restaurant, at a street stall, the man selling basins was staring at the already flattened stainless-steel basin in his hand, lost in thought.

Then, with a sudden movement of his will, a sharp long sword appeared in his hand. He stepped forward, the blade flashing with a touch of gold, and shot toward Xu Feng like a spear.

The security guard’s expression grew grave as well. He first helped me sit down in a chair, then took me to check the surveillance footage.

Since it had been bought from someone else, there was no useful information to be found from Auntie either. After all, Old Xu was already this old; the person who sold him to them might already be dead.

I had always believed the village was an illusion created by Daoist Master Tianji, something that did not exist at all. But now it seemed that was not the case.

“Hahaha, Host, are you scared now?” It still remembered that in the previous worlds, a certain man always met bizarre deaths.

Because his game-related skills were too high, Mu Jiao had only seen the high value of eighty-nine at first glance. But upon closer inspection, Xiao Jiangyuan’s other potential values were also not low.

Since the Kingdom of Xuan was camped outside and could attack at any moment, most of the shops in the border city were closed, and there were very few pedestrians.

A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out at once, turning into a mist of blood. Within the mist, one could faintly see a face identical to He Xiang’s, only with a few more traces of sinister charm.

A feint to the east while striking in the west. My heart gave a sudden jolt, and a chill ran instantly down my spine. I spun around and slashed backward with the coin sword, only to have it seized halfway through.

So someone truly wanted to assault her. Chi Weiran had not lied. Shangguan Mo could hardly believe it. If, back then, Lu Qingshan had chosen not to believe her, what kind of desperate situation would Chi Weiran have faced? Just thinking about it sent a shiver through him.

By rights, there should not have been any outbreak at this time of year, yet an epidemic had appeared all the same.

After saying that, Lin Huai hung up the phone, drew in a deep breath, left home at once, set the navigation in his car, and drove straight toward the restaurant.

That man was one of the swindlers. Zhang Tianhua and several of his colleagues had been tailing them for a long time, and this time they had finally discovered their lair.

Ye Xi took off the red cord tied at her waist, wrapped one end around the index finger of Shi Lina’s right hand, and wound the other end around a stick of incense. After lighting it, Ye Xi placed the incense in Shi Lina’s other hand.

The color remaining on Mu Nuanyang’s palm-sized oval face vanished at a visible speed. She darted inside at once, slamming the door hard behind her, then ran off at top speed in five-centimeter stilettos.

Since the blood ghost’s first target was not them, how could Sun Hu and Lin Ping dare to step forward and stop it? Setting aside the fact that neither of them possessed the slightest ability to contend with a blood ghost, if they enraged the creature and it turned to attack them instead, what then? They knew this time they were more than likely doomed, but who, if they could live even a moment longer, would want to die early?

For Li Mo, even so, the situation here was far better than in a low-level mecha repair shop.

Zheng Sanguan was a local power broker, and he ought to have had some familiarity, more or less, with the heads of many government departments. Yet he was completely unfamiliar with Lin Wei.

An overwhelming aura came surging straight at them. This “ancient city” was not as ordinary as they had imagined.

To the southwest was a planned area in Jinling. It had not been developed before, and only after someone took it over as a contractor did construction begin on that stretch of wasteland.

“This top-grade Dao artifact of mine costs five hundred low-grade spirit stones!” Chu Yun said with a laugh, though he still gave Qing Yi an explanation.