It would be no exaggeration for Wei Zhao to say that such formidable battlefield control was something he had never seen in all his life.

Of course, Wei Zhao was not about to sit still and wait for death.

A thought stirred in Wei Zhao's mind, and the Mirage Pearl instantly left a string of afterimages in place; his true body withdrew, and he opened straight away with Seven Fading Flies, forcing a burst of speed into his counterattack.

Against any other opponent, a sudden faceful of this sequence from Wei Zhao would have left them at least somewhat rattled...

The trembling sound persisted for over a minute before it gradually subsided. The already collapsed and shattered buildings took yet another blow, reduced to a heap of ruins, while on the ground there now appeared an intricate and exceedingly strange rune array, layered one upon another, from which a hoary, profound aura came surging forth.

The jade piece glowed with a faint, lustrous blue, and at its very center was carved the character "Yin." The two of them naturally knew this was the emblem borne by every generation of the imperial house—they had one of their own as well.

Mother An saw the two of them off, then followed Father An into the incubation room to continue keeping the child company.

I tore that sticky note to shreds and flushed it down the drain, left a light burning in the entryway, turned off the lamp by the bed, and only then sank into a deep sleep.

"All right, now we can divide up the contribution points," Feng Tianxing said with a smile to the others once they had left that place.

So Shen Changming made the decision on the spot, and with his silver tongue persuaded Shen Changzhi to stay, having him and his brother escort the party to the capital.

"Several elders of the Curse Tower are all searching everywhere for spaces that might grant entry to the Middle Realm, and this thing is one such space that one of the elders stumbled upon by chance and brought back from there," the old man continued to explain.

Given Fire Wolf's lunatic way of thinking, it had to be somewhere convenient for that sort of thing—and yet the tenth one was nowhere to be found. Could it be that there simply wasn't one? Impossible. Fire Wolf didn't have that kind of ability, and besides, lying just wasn't in his nature.

"Academy rules say you can only enter as a team. Have you found your teammates yet?" The old man toyed with a purple-red scroll in his hand as he asked casually.

This was plainly a prank, and Gu Qian's face went scarlet in an instant. Her heart plummeted. Had she... just been laughed at?

Chen Yu posted a notice on the door explaining why the shop would be closed for the next few days, then wrote down when it would reopen, and with that led everyone back to Nan Yu Village.

Li Yan himself was quite happy to have this kind of retaliation. Though he had learned the magic array within the magic crystal of the poison-eyed ringed snake, there was still the magic array within the magic crystal of the phantom-eyed venom lizard that he had not yet mastered—he had no time at all to go out gallivanting.

As expected, Hong Taiji did not take the accidental killing of a few Ming soldiers seriously at all. On the contrary, he appeared dismissive of Dorgon's explanation for having shot arrows at the Ming troops. He perhaps believed that the Mongols were on the verge of crumbling, that a falling-out with the Ming court was only a suitable pretext away, and that a few misunderstandings and frictions were actually a good thing.

"A Zi, it's a pity the times are so unsettled—I can't give you a proper wedding. Once things settle down, I'll make it up to you. I won't let you suffer any indignity." Shi Zhibang gently stroked A Zi's fair cheek, his face full of shame.

Because Yu Sheng's hair, eyelashes, beard, eyebrows, body hair, and so on—there was not a single hair left anywhere on his body—this time Yu Sheng really did look a bit like an alien. Peisi had even specially taken a photo of Yu Sheng's new look; it would probably be known to everyone in the city by tomorrow morning.

When Lucia first began fighting Li Yan, she opened by planning to unleash a devastating ice-element attack spell, intending to use its overwhelming power to crush Li Yan outright and secure the final victory.

"What the boss means is..." Du Tie seemed to suddenly grasp the intentions of this leader who was so accustomed to scheming against others.

A furious strike from someone of mid-tier Soul Refining strength, and he had actually called it no threat at all. The anger Ding Jian had been straining to hold back erupted once more. But seemingly sensing that Lin Xian'er was watching him from behind, he forcibly summoned his refining power and pressed it back down.