Chapter 156: Shameful

"What on earth was the reason three years ago? Why did you beat a pregnant woman until she miscarried?"
As memories slowly resurfaced, who was that pregnant woman?
Gao Mi vaguely saw a woman clutching her stomach, collapsing in a pool of blood, constantly crying out for her child.
Yet, she herself had seemed rather happy back then, keeping at it until the woman fainted, right up until the guards rushed over.
With a look of utter disdain, she said, "What is there to talk about? It's just ancient history. If you want to know, plenty of people know. What's the use of asking all this? Could it be that you were born to that pregnant woman?"
With that, she burst out laughing. This...
"Qinger, such an affectionate name. Our relationship must have been very close, right?" Su Ju'an asked.
Fang Xiaoru looked down at the trembling student before him, the muscles on his face twitching slightly and involuntarily.
Seeing it lunge toward him, the youth quickly changed his tactical approach, bending his knees and leaning backward while sliding his feet across the sandy ground, positioning himself precisely beneath its chest and abdomen. Then, he suddenly delivered a powerful right punch, followed by a coordinated left palm strike that shoved it off balance to one side.
Alice walked up to the counter, extended her slender fingers, picked up a measuring cup, and gently poured the liquid inside into another glass.
Tang Feng looked at Liang Yuan and found that, at this moment, she was actually calmer than he was. Tang Feng nodded, entirely agreeing with Liang Yuan's idea. Thus, the two packed up their belongings and hurriedly left the dormitory they had only lived in for two nights.
If they were to press the attack a bit more fiercely, Tao Qian might surrender on his own even before Xuzhou City was breached.
At this moment, these two colleagues had inexplicably blocked his way with unfriendly expressions on their faces; no matter how one looked at it, they seemed to harbor no goodwill toward him at all.
His prolonged scripture-chanting not only had a purifying effect on Lu Yu's soul but was equally effective for Nie Qizhan.
Only the front row of the judges' seats was empty. Wu Fan originally wanted to sit directly in the middle of the judges' panel—the chief judge's seat—but after thinking better of it, he decided to keep a low profile.
Since it was an aphrodisiac, if it had been strictly resisted from the very beginning, wouldn't all the subsequent tragedies have been averted?
Zhao Yi's military achievements had already become legendary tales across Youzhou and Jizhou. His crushing of the main Yellow Turban forces in the battles of Guangzong and Changshe, as well as his elimination of Zhang Jue and his two brothers in the battles of Quyang and Yangcheng, made his renown unrivaled in this land for a time.
At this moment, Chuxia was merely draped in an outer robe. Zhi Qiu, lying right beside her, hadn't even had time to get dressed yet, merely wrapping her body in a quilt, which made things safe enough.
Golden light flashed in Xiao Yan's eyes. He casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, laughed heartily, and stomped fiercely on the ground, charging toward the Heart Flame Spirit to blast it apart. Though the latter's aura remained as vast as an ocean and its blood qi soared to the heavens, its vital energy had shown a slight trace of disorder over the past three days.
"There are only seven days left until a full month." For these three months, Qin Chong had been counting the days on his fingers, hoping that Yang Xiu could come out a day sooner to share some of the power held in Zhao Yi's hands.
"This city has incorporated the painstaking efforts of generations of our tribe; it can be described as immensely sturdy. As long as the city gates are barred from the inside, external forces are simply unable to open them," Mubai stated, revealing his source of confidence.
"So that's how it is..." Xia Fangyuan noticed the sorrowful expression on Gong Shaoxie's face. This was the first time she had ever seen such an expression on him.
Gong Shaoxie stepped forward, pulled Xia Fangyuan into his arms, and held her tightly, as if he were afraid she might vanish at any moment.
How well the soul and flesh would match in the future was a crucial step. Only by plunging the soul deep into every single cell of the body could one use the parts to influence the whole and thereby achieve soul control over the physical form.
Now it was truly happening—they had genuinely run into a kidnapping, genuinely encountered a robbery... and genuinely caused these two children to get hurt.
"Because this roster only records your leverage against the officials and noble clans of Shandong, but does not contain the list of your secret agents, nor the list of those cooperating with you," Fang Zheng said.
If mining in a remote location, the cost would be simply too high. Logistics and supplies alone would be extremely inconvenient, so it was highly unlikely for anyone to extract ores in regions far removed from human-inhabited planets.