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The Old Master turned his gaze toward my teacher once more. In truth, my teacher had not brought much tobacco with him when he came to the Northeast. After spending so many days at the Huang Family Village, his tobacco pouch had visibly shriveled.

After saying this, Xue Huan still wore a smile. He looked so calm and unconcerned that he seemed to be recounting something entirely unrelated to himself.

Tianchen was deeply concerned about the safety of his physical body. If his guess was correct and a high-level sea demon had entered the Dao Tribulation and launched a fierce assault against his body, then things were truly disastrous. Still, he was a high-level martial cultivator who had reached the stage of Condensed Astral Force. Unless it was a top-tier demon beast, Tianchen was confident that his body could withstand the attack for a while.

Although these items were not ordinary, that was only in relation to conventional martial artists. To Su Chen, they were all useless.

The old man from the Hatred-Severing Sword Sect had a somewhat distorted expression. The members of the Hatred-Severing Sword Sect behind him were even more furious, but if this had not been the Northern Divine Sea, they would have already erupted.

To observe the commotion caused by a tenth-stage cultivator undergoing the Tribulation of Transcending Delusion in time, those mighty figures behind the scenes had undoubtedly left these people some means of summoning them.

Ye Qingyun raised his head toward the sky, his expression calm. A sharp sword intent eroded his body, but Ye Qingyun felt no sense of confinement. It was merely like having a thorn at his back, enough to make anyone shudder.

Real and illusory, real and illusory—this made him nearly impossible to guard against. As repeated sounds of something tearing through the air rang out, followed by a succession of hissing noises, Gao Kuang was astonished to discover that his clothes were already riddled with holes. If the difference between their strengths had not been so small—

The number began to rise, finally stopping at two million jin, equivalent to the strength of forty dragons.

Although the layout of the village before us was no different from the one we had passed earlier, all the houses looked far more dilapidated. Clearly, no one had lived there for a very long time.

At that moment, twenty-four rays of starlight and twenty-four swords burst forth simultaneously. Twenty-four people stood before twenty-four statues, each of whom had once been a renowned divine general. Yet now, they moved in strange, rhythmic steps, while the swords in their hands unleashed an endless torrent of starlight.

Chu Haotian recalled the past. When he had asked him to purchase that spiritual herb, he had apparently remembered the request he himself had made. He had not expected him to remember it even now.

After Sun Yi finished speaking, he left Liu Hao with the words that he wanted an answer in three months. By then, Sun Yi would be going to America and would take him along.

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Instructor Zhang’s voice was filled with anticipation. Just hearing about such a confrontation made it sound thrilling.

Ge Beizhou glanced at the two people before him. He had some impression of Bai Hetian, but as for Jieng, he did not know him at all.

Although Shen Yuanyuan had initially felt jealous upon seeing Lin Ruiyu and Nalan Tutu, she ultimately came to understand and accept the situation.

At this point, Su Chen was reminded that after the Su family went bankrupt, he and his younger sister had ventured out on their own. On their very first night, they had also hidden in a building like this.

George received Liu Hao’s pass and leaped high, then slammed the ball through the hoop between the two bewildered defenders on the opposite side.

Peng Siding was at Guanyin Bridge, Xue Yongcheng at Red Flag River Valley, and Liu Hualin in Jiangbei. They happened to be along the way. When the train arrived at Caiyuanba, the three of them boarded the car of the same driver who had taken Liu Hualin home last time and hurried back.

Once the plan had been settled, Yang Desan set out. Relying on his exceptional martial arts, he entered the Imperial Guard through recommendation and examination and was appointed an instructor of the guards. During the day, he trained them in martial arts; at night, he contacted various righteous men opposed to the Qing and secretly plotted rebellion. Later, however, a traitor informed against them, and the news was exposed.

At that moment, Jiang Hai felt something stir within him. He suddenly walked over to the employee, scraped a match out of the ashes on his body from thin air, and handed it to Jenis.

After Miye Ye finished listening, a look of understanding flashed through her obsidian eyes. No wonder he had come so late tonight—he had made her wait for so long.

“Ugh, and I was just fantasizing about some peerless handsome man. Who would have thought he’d be this hideous! What rotten luck!” Passerby C shouted angrily.

Qi Zheng looked at Ren Shi. The thought in his mind was whether Ren Shi had taken things too far and become overly self-important.

Moreover, seeing that Shen Xinghan was no longer avoiding her, Yu Weiwei became even more certain of her guess. Shen Xinghan did not like Jinyun; he could even be said to loathe her somewhat.

“Your Highness, there is news from the Eastern Palace.” Ji Heng was seated beside the pond at the Western Kang Prince’s Residence, casually scattering fish food. He stopped the attendant beside him and relayed the message.

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Bai Yanjing seemed to know that she was about to say something urging them to keep their distance, so he deliberately interrupted her and changed the subject.

“They won’t be sleeping anytime soon. I think they’re waiting for news from us.” Lü Fei shook his head.

Her master, Nianduan, had also agreed to let Duanmu Rong follow Zhao Wu because of Zhao’s miraculous medical skills and his life-saving kindness.

Chu Yan glanced at Li Xinyi. He was genuinely afraid she might suddenly utter something in that affectedly coy tone: “I only know how to worry about Big Brother...” Curious, he reached out and touched her fair cheek, then wiped his hand against his own thigh.

The sacrificial altar had more than sixty steps in all. A height of thirty zhang was divided into only sixty steps, making it truly seem as though it had been built for giants. Only after climbing onto the altar did they see that it was not particularly large. It was square, with each side measuring thirty zhang, and was made entirely of gray stone steps crisscrossed by deep grooves.

Tomorrow was the teacher assessment, so the Superpower Academy was unusually lively today. There had been relatively few people over the past two days, but once the school year began, the academy would be crowded with students everywhere.

With his current cultivation, coupled with the constant strengthening of his soul by the Primordial Soul-Devouring Tree, Su Mu’s spiritual sense still found that when it swept toward Mo Bai, it was just as before—as though Mo Bai did not exist at all.

It was not that Zhang Yunze did not want to stay a few more days and spend more time with his friends. However, Wang Yuehan kept urging him to return without saying why. With no other choice, Zhang Yunze quickly booked high-speed rail tickets home online.

The attendant beside them also wanted to step forward and help Luo Wusheng to his feet, but Fifth Mo stopped him with a single glance.

Ye Ge and Mei Zhaoling exchanged a look, both understanding at once. On the snowy plain at the outskirts of the Snowy Plateau, they knew that most people were hurrying upward, or rather northward. Yet throughout their journey, it was only now that they had begun to see more figures.

In theory, there were three thousand one hundred people and three hundred ten arenas. When the incense burned out, whoever occupied an arena would be selected. It was a preliminary elimination round in which one contestant advanced out of every ten. But now... only two hundred ninety arenas remained! What kind of absurdity was this?

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