Volume One, Chapter 89: The Birth of Xiaofei

“That’s right, that’s right!”

Montage slapped his forehead in sudden annoyance.

How could he have forgotten this?

He hurriedly poured the power of spiritual essence within him into the flower bud.

With that infusion, the motionless bud slowly began to open.

From within emerged a gray-green egg, its markings flickering in and out of sight.

Crack.

A sound like something breaking rang out.

A fissure appeared in the shell, then widened and widened.

A great number of people panicked. Those a little farther from Lu Tianyu had no idea what had happened; thinking some dreadful geological disaster had struck, they fled in terror in all directions like headless flies.

Lin Chen shook his head. He could not be bothered to act himself. With a sweep of his hand, A-Mu-Mu suddenly appeared in the center of the arena.

A weight lifted from Lu Tianyu’s chest. As long as his superior had not arrived yet, he could not be considered late. But his superior was always the first to reach the meeting room; why had he not appeared today? The relief he had just felt rose again into his throat. This was hardly a good omen.

To this day, she still could not understand how, back then, she had actually let that useless troublemaker, Fei Yun, become the shadow guard. Had her brain been flooded with water at the time?

The two crisp words were spat from Xiao Qiang’s lips. She knew full well that saying this would only make the old man even angrier, but it was better than allowing him to become too agitated and do something that would make the situation impossible to control.

The merciless old man of time was like a bitter wind, sweeping away the vigor of all living things; yet if one kept pace with it and hurried onward together, then even in old age there would be nothing to regret.

What he wanted was to beat Chen Yufeng to the ground and prove that he himself was the strongest.

But in a surge of emotion, he failed to imitate another man’s voice, and what came out was entirely his own.

After the car stopped, Jiang Ran pushed open the door and looked curiously at Gao Shiqing, who seemed eager to try.

What followed would be a battle involving more than two thousand students. Though not as prestigious as the Grand Competition of South Bright, its ferocity far surpassed it. In this struggle, he would not only have to contend with his own peers, but also face more than four hundred senior students of the Stone Soul realm, as well as a prodigy, Chu Yulong, who had suffered defeat after defeat yet kept challenging again and again.

Inside the sleeve, Jiang Chen was astonished to find that his sight was in no way impaired; he could see everything outside, and even more clearly than before. He knew this had been done intentionally by the Nether Emperor, so that they might watch the duel clearly and thereby aid their own breakthroughs.

With Duolin leading the way, after the time it took to drink two cups of tea, Shui Mei could already see, from afar ahead in the woods, vast stretches of pink-and-white Swaying Flowers in full bloom. Seen from a distance, the sea of blossoms looked like mist and smoke, magnificent beyond compare.

The hatred hidden between those lines made me tremble with shock. I suddenly lifted my head and met his blazing gaze head-on. Within it, beyond fury and resentment, were also threads of pain so tightly suppressed they could not be contained.

Jing Hanyao had originally been lazy and unwilling to go, but when Mu Liuhuan told her that Mu Lan and Song Beiyang would be going as well, along with the others, she finally agreed, albeit reluctantly.

Xuanji’s body stiffened. Seeing that he made no improper move, she relaxed again, and Zhao Jianshen held the soft, fragrant beauty in his arms, almost unwilling to let go.

Yue Ni had indeed chosen to launch his fierce assault on the very day of their wedding. Yet, to everyone’s surprise, he had not targeted the border of the Ning Kingdom, which seemed easier to take. Instead, he dispatched troops in a single day to attack fifteen mountain villages along the border of the Ji Kingdom. Wherever they went, not a single soul was left alive; after looting everything clean, they immediately set the villages ablaze.

What a wonderful thing it was to have someone you could bully without having to bear any responsibility, and even have them do the work for you while still collecting the wages yourself.

Unfortunately, he did not know that in this world there was a medicine called the Yin-Yang Soul-Combining Pill. With his cultivation, he likely had never even heard of it. Of course, even if he did know, he probably would not believe that Jiang Yi was fortunate enough to obtain it.