Volume One, Chapter Ninety-Four: The Refuge Shelter
We tried every possible method, but there was no way to cure him in the end. All we could do was confine him in the asylum.
If, in the future, someone can solve this problem, please help... kill him.
If anyone wishes to study him, remember this: under no circumstances must he be taken out of the water.
At the end of his words, Elder Jiang bowed deeply toward the camera.
"That frightening?"
Some stray arrow from who-knows-where flew in and struck Xiahou Dun's warhorse squarely. With a thunderous crash, the horse went down, and Xiahou Dun, still driving it forward, was thrown from the saddle just like that.
Long Ju's face held little expression. To him, killing was as commonplace as eating and drinking. As the general of the Loufan cavalry, he had completed his task.
Under such circumstances, the Han army naturally could not let such a rare opportunity slip away. Before Lu Bu's military orders even arrived, Gao Shun had already ordered Song Xian and Hou Cheng to pursue the victory. Later, Gao Shun himself donned armor and took the field, urging the great army forward at full speed.
Yet this was also the reason Li Zimu was puzzled. What manner of ability did Han Xin possess that could make Xiao He chase after him for an entire day and night without letting go?
He had never before had the habit of morning runs. Every day, when breakfast was served, he was always the last to arrive. Yet today he had actually gone out for a morning run, and even Yan Yan found it surprising.
Then came another summons, as though from another world. The person who had been sleeping soundly in the bed suddenly opened her eyes, instantly stripped of all drowsiness.
The Ferris wheel carried them to its highest point, and it was there that Lu Xue was kissed by Lu Chengmo until her legs went weak.
Add to that the residual fire elements lingering in the air, and that man's identity was self-evident: the principal of Logaris Academy of Magic.
The black fissure had by then widened to the breadth of a hand and was still spreading open. It appeared just behind Qing Tianlin. His sinister, evil face looked like a ghoul summoning souls from hell, and the black fissure growing larger behind him was the accursed gate leading straight to the underworld.
Qing Yu looked at him earnestly and asked, as though she were humbly seeking instruction on the matter.
I could feel the stone surging with a vast and powerful energy. This force was as boundless as the sea. If I could absorb it all, it would at least allow my strength to increase threefold.
I folded my arms, watching him with a smile and shaking my head, truly feeling that the contrast was enormous. He was a mechanical genius, and also Iron Man, yet here he was helping me fix a television. I could no longer tell where dream ended and reality began.
Though Shen Yan could not hear a single footstep, she knew that her entire house was surrounded by people.
Han Fei said nothing. He merely flicked Qing Xue on the forehead. Zhang Xue, listening from behind, heard it clearly, and her heart immediately grew even more restless.
A thousand years ago, Yue Que once accidentally encountered Ji Yun'er, and came to realize that ghosts and zombies shared many striking similarities. Though a ghost, she could command dead things, and her own power could even subtly control certain corpse-creatures, making them obey her.
They could only say: can you be any more narcissistic? With which eye did you see that someone has any improper thoughts about you?
Lan Ruoxi used the food she had brought to make something simple to eat. I had no appetite, but I still intended to keep them company.
After the vanguard general of the Great Dian Kingdom arrived in the streets of the city, he saw that large numbers of his own troops were already gathering there.
They publicly claimed that Hidekawa Taro was critically ill and that Hidekawa Fumiko had taken charge of Mitsubishi, but in truth all power had fallen into the hands of the Yoshihara family.
Once inside the room, although the furnishings and decorations were old and plain, it was very clean.
"What? Wait there, I'll be there right away!" Without waiting for Zhang Sanfeng to finish, he hung up the phone.
"Yu Xiao? Are you certain it's Yu Xiao?" Lady Li was somewhat excited. Who Yu Xiao was, she could not possibly not know. He was the young master of Princess Jinghe's household, the Empress Dowager's only legitimate grandson.
"Your spiritual power, compared with when you dealt with me inside the seal before, is much weaker now." A trace of smugness appeared at the corner of Han Yandust's eye. With a casual wave of his hand, the Soul Ice Sword vanished on its own, reverting to the Black Thorn and returning to his grasp.
Ye Zifeng could sense Shenshou's furious face beneath the mask. Yet in that wrathful countenance there was also a measure of doubt.
"Yang Huai, let's first go to Shayun City. We'll get you a haircut, shave your beard, and find you some new clothes. What do you say?" Wu Qian said.
"Is there really such a method as using child urine with earth-yellow bait?" Old Cao seemed to be hearing of it for the first time.
But the matter had come so suddenly, and it was tied to Brother Wang, who had once helped him in his most difficult hour. He now had a reason he could not refuse to intervene.
Wu Dan's red skirt excited him like a banner. Her long, slender legs shimmered with a crystal sheen, and as she walked, they stirred a bewitching allure.
The imperial consort had fallen ill and taken to her bed, and the emperor had punished several imperial physicians. In the palace now, not a soul dared breathe too loudly.
She had originally thought Ye Tian was merely talking nonsense, but how could mere nonsense cure a rare and stubborn illness that even countless famous doctors could not resolve?
In the next instant, one after another, afterimages flashed constantly through the air as Gu Chen unleashed the Thunderstep and sped toward the distance.
I left the Qi family and first found a place to fully restore my spiritual power. Although there had been no fierce battle in the Qi family hall, I had still consumed a tremendous amount of power in dealing with the Qi family's two sudden attacks. It took a full day to recover.
Just right—using this opportunity, he intended to inquire how much connection there was between the Han family and the An family.
Li Minghe pressed the head onto the table in front of the memorial tablet of the old Xinjian Marquis, cast not another glance at Li Mingzhe, and turned to leave.
Gu Chen swallowed the spiritual liquid in one gulp. In an instant, the nine purple dragons opened their mouths and喷ed out streams of dragon breath.
"Who knows? According to the neighbors, after you left, their family suddenly moved away, and no one knows where they went. I suppose they were afraid you'd come back, that monster, to find them, haha." Sun Wukong laughed without end.
For her, dual-boxing was no problem at all so long as it was not an exhausting player-versus-player fight. Ordinary tasks were something she could handle with complete ease.