Chapter 9

“If only the two of us could have an ice-and-snow ability.”

Song Yu began dreaming aloud, unable to stop herself from imagining it.

With a supernatural ability, she could slaughter her way through anything!

Just imagine how spectacular it would be to control ice and snow.

Unfortunately, so far Song Yu had not seen a single NPC or player with any supernatural ability.

Even enhancements and upgrades only improved the body.

“Wake up. Time to chop wood.”

At that moment, Lei Xiu was also caught in deep hesitation. Could those heterochromatic eyes really transport every one of them out successfully? Yet the arrow was already nocked and had to be loosed. In the end, he tried using the teleportation ability of his mismatched eyes, attempting to move everyone out at once.

Although the red chains were clearly visible, Lang Yu knew that he could only see them. With the strength of his fire element at present, he could not yet manipulate them.

Beneath the moonlight, the earth was draped in a layer of silver. Inside the carriage, Wu Faxiu opened the curtain and, wrapped in a fur blanket against the biting wind, gazed ahead. Though the two sides were still a hundred zhang apart, Wu Faxiu could already sense the murderous aura radiating from Duan Lang.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Balls of fire were hurled toward the walls of Lan Capital. This time, Han Pingzi had ordered the catapults moved more than a dozen zhang forward. His target was not the walls themselves. Based on the city’s defensive layout, he intended to ignite the rolling logs and pine oil stored behind them.

But when Yun Zhen returned to his bedroom to rest, he discovered that someone had gone through his luggage. In the dark corners nearby, he could also vaguely sense people watching him. He merely gave a contemptuous smile, lay straight down on the bed, and let matters take their course.

The way he twisted around and looked back while dodging bullets, the impossibly precise stance he took when wielding a gun, and his exact judgment of the remaining ammunition—how could he possibly be a college student? He was practically more professional than I was, and I was an assassin.

She was afraid that if she woke Yun Zhen, who was lying beside her bed, she would once again be left alone in that terrible darkness and solitude.

Yun Zhen got along extremely well with the Military Governor and Inspector of the Shannan East Circuit. While sending people to prepare a banquet, he also submitted a memorial to the imperial court in public, reporting the situation there and specifically requesting rewards and honors for the generals who had come to help. Naturally, this made those men even more favorably disposed toward Yun Zhen.

It was only that Annam’s government grew more chaotic with every passing day. An occasion of such grandeur had not occurred there for a very long time.

Only in this way could Golden Roc Valley avoid being targeted by the factions within the Divine-Demon Spirit Vein from the very beginning, gradually expand and strengthen itself amid the struggle for territory in the Mortal Realm, and, when the critical moment arrived, merge the Palace of Fatality into Golden Roc Valley, thereby dealing a fatal blow to the major powers of the other sacred realms.

At the end of March in the year 3502 of the Cosmic Calendar, the warship escorting Lilia slowly entered the Black Fiend Starport of Ceres. Once the handover was complete, the Jupiter forces would return to Jupiter. From then on, the task of escorting the grand princess back to Earth would pass into human hands.

As I watched the scenery outside the carriage window flicker and race backward, my thoughts drifted back into the past.

As he spoke, he nervously glanced around. Only after confirming that no one from the other ships had appeared did he turn back and continue, “This is an order from above. You’d better prepare to pay your way out of trouble! In a moment, I’ll also have to take you and Miss Ruyan back for questioning. Perhaps it’s only a formality. That’s all I can tell you!”

“I’m sorry.” She had indeed been in the wrong first. Those were the only words she could say.

“Ah, it seems I still underestimated Mu Xifeng. This man is no ordinary mortal!” Hua Dongsheng sighed helplessly before turning and returning indoors.

“But children have to grow up eventually. Humans are such contradictory creatures. We love a child’s innocence, yet we fear that he might remain innocent forever.” Tong En looked somewhat forlorn.

Linger’s clear, delicate cry startled both Tang Wannian and Li Shiqing. The teacup Tang Wannian had just lifted nearly slipped from his hand.