Chapter 41: I Dare Not Accept It

After Jiang Wan followed Venerable Yuyi out, she sent a telepathic message halfway.
"Master, did you see anything when you performed the soul-search just now? Who instigated her, and does it have anything to do with Jiang Yao?"
Venerable Yuyi shook his head, puzzled by this as well.
"The other party must have used some kind of secret technique. When I searched her soul, I found that all memories of her contact with them had been erased."
Jiang Wan: You’ve got to be kidding.
"Shen Zhui is with the Military Statistics Bureau, one of the four key henchmen under Dai Li. I heard he is stationed in Shanghai." Seeing that the man on the ground was too terrified to answer the question, Liu Zi spoke on his behalf.
Thus, the snowball effect began. These internal energies consolidated rapidly, one after another, until the thirty-sixth and most potent strand was integrated. Then, this force finally erupted.
"I really can't right now. I have important matters unfinished that I must attend to. If I’m late, I’m afraid it will be too late." Zhu Nuo wanted to explain in more detail, but fearing opposition from his friends, he could only give a vague, ambiguous response.
He suddenly snapped to his senses, the words "qi deviation" flashing through his mind, which gave him a jolt of terror.
A towering pressure surged into the sky, an unparalleled momentum that seemed to cleave the heavens and earth, mingled with an immortal and indestructible will, as it struck toward the Nether Demon Venerable.
Yue Tanxi suddenly remembered something and said to Long Mengmeng, "Mengmeng, Lingqi’s surgery is the day after tomorrow. Let’s go to the hospital tomorrow!" Long Mengmeng looked quite surprised at the news.
If his guess was correct, the moment Huo Ziming received this hidden card and saw it was a nine, he would give it a light rub to manipulate the card into an Ace.
Whenever he thought of Harvey Town, Thomson would feel the pendant on his necklace grow warm, then gradually turn scalding hot.
"Since we’ve laid everything out on the table, you should be even more willing to give me a hand now." Through their exchange, the village chief seemed to see a glimmer of hope.
Though the man looked unremarkable, his aura revealed him to be a late-stage Golden Core cultivator at the tenth level.
They had only just driven away the last spirit beast and plucked the final medicinal herb without even having time to treat their wounds. They had expected to be teleported to the next level to meet Fang Yan, expecting to finally escape this hellish place, but who could have known that the true test had only just begun?
"It must be a demonic beast." At this moment, Fang Yan seemed to have no reservations about her, walking directly to a spot just two or three yards away before stopping.
The secondary consort nodded, offered a polite word of thanks, and left with the support of her maid. The snow was deep, reaching her ankles, and each step buried her entire foot. A bitter ache filled her heart; remembering the indifference in Fourteen’s expression earlier, she couldn't help but shed tears.
Fang Yan, the name that once set countless hearts ablaze, had returned to the public eye. Yet this time, his actions left the world even more shocked and incredulous.
Old Shi was one of those severely injured. Although the wooden arrow Zhao Longtao had fired was not lodged deep in his abdomen, it caused such excruciating pain that he dared not move.
Zhao Jingyi was startled, then stared fixedly at the black hair protruding from beneath the quilt, her heart drumming against her ribs. Waves of bitterness surged into her soul, bubbling up and fermenting amidst the chill that permeated her entire body.
Earth, May 15, 2015, J City, China. The gloomy weather weighed on the heart like a giant boulder, stirring an inescapable sense of irritability. A faint, strange red light flickered within the clouds, leaving one full of doubt.
"Heh heh, I just happened to pass by, so I thought I’d... drop by to see," Xiao Yun'er said with a smile that couldn't have been more forced, tilting her head slightly to keep her tears from falling.
"So that's how it is." Tang Qihong felt ashamed; he had just been guessing that one was the first wife and the other a concubine. It seemed he had been wrong.