Out in the world beyond, time flowed on as usual.

Yet Wei Zhao himself had frozen solid.

An instant later, the aura around Wei Zhao began to plummet.

His one-zhang dharma form remained a one-zhang dharma form, unchanged in the slightest—but Wei Zhao's own foundational cultivation was in sharp, rapid decline.

From a Heaven-Rank Venerable down to an Earth-Rank Venerable!

From the Venerable realm down to the Titan realm!

Realm after realm, collapsing one upon the next—in the blink of an eye, he was about to fall to...

Liang Wan'er, one hand guarding her belly, sat obediently on the sofa, her eyes rimmed red, watching Lady Huo's deeply complicated expression with a trace of timid fear.

Jiang Yansheng would never stand by and watch someone die. For a person of her standing, finding a doctor was only a matter of money—one word from her, and a guard would see to it. There was no need for Ye Mi to kneel and beg like this.

There was still a great deal of work waiting at the company, and Qu Mohan truly did not want to waste her time on the interviews that Song Wanyu had organized.

"Arsenic is both poison and medicine. Every apothecary shop stocks it, and it is easy enough to come by. But that is hardly some remarkable loophole—if Gan Yuan sent someone to buy it, do you think he would not have thought to hide his identity?" Su Ruhui had expected Su Tai to propose something ingenious; hearing only this, she could not help but sound a little disappointed.

Murong Che had swapped 'Murong Che' up into place. He drank and made merry in the corridor while 'Murong Che' performed the conjugal act in his stead above.

By now the scenery all around could be seen clearly. Lifting his gaze toward the distance, he saw mountain after mountain rising straight into the clouds.

"If Old Wang really did it, then they are far too brazen... Escaping prison yesterday at noon, and murdering a man by nightfall. That—that—that is simply too, too..." Captain Song suddenly began to babble incoherently.

"You're driveling again," his friend—another slab of a man, all brawn—sneered with contempt.

Wu Zihao could not make sense of the circuitry inside a pampered rich boy's head; he simply could not work out how they thought about anything.

Only... after saying that, Mi Qianqian had truly never imagined that on her very first day of work she would run straight into the greatest trial of her professional career.

In the blink of an eye it was June, and far away in the provinces, Third Master Yao received word that Yao An'yi had passed the examination and been granted the title of child scholar.

"Because the Blood Clan's original ranking stood above our Silver Moon Ancient Clan. You could say that from first to last, the Blood Clan has never treated our Silver Moon Ancient Clan as an equal rival," said the patriarch of the Silver Moon Ancient Clan.

She helped Chu Jiangli out of the car and into the house, then back to the room. The whole way she did not speak again, and Chu Jiangli obediently kept silent as well.

Rong Ge could hardly wait for Qingzhu to rest—because only when Qingzhu rested would no one be left to compete with him for affection, no?

One on one, Yinling might be able to defeat any one of them, but once surrounded, she would likely have to pay an exceedingly bitter price to escape.

And so Han Xiyun fled from the scene of her man's wedding, without leaving a single trace behind.

Lying on the sickbed, there was actually a look of sorrow in Rocks' eyes—could even this king of the great sea harbor such an emotion?

Guo Sun had come to Huazhong this time to realize his political ambition of helping Qin Zhen scheme for the Nine Provinces. He had already had his fill of political infighting among officials back in Hexi, and now he wanted only to settle down and do real work.

And under his command there was still another general who had awakened a General Star, Qu Yan. All those years ago, it was he and Qu Yan together who had conquered the land of Hanzhong.

"No, after we made our relationship official, he has always been extremely gentlemanly, and he has never made any unreasonable demands of me! What is wrong with all of you? Why are you so worked up? Isn't this perfectly normal for us?" Lu Zitian, who had never once had a boyfriend, found it all far too strange.

The destructive force of that single sentence was astonishing; Dr. Shirley and Hathaway were, of course, instantly knocked out.

Burst after terrible burst—in the blink of an eye they were already hurtling forward and piercing through, and the entire soul-power battlefield was torn violently apart with the black dragon's appearance. Terrible fissures ripped open, swift and savage.