Letter of Self-Preservation

“And next year, for the lotus roots I grow, I’ll give you another twenty percent off!” Lin Saiyu said with a grin, raising one finger.

Yun Zhongzi, who had remained utterly motionless and silent the whole time, suddenly sprang to his feet, to everyone’s astonishment.

“Good. It’s enough that you say so.” Xu Ziling nodded. Qianyu, if you truly did not want to see Yu Musen, he naturally had ways to make that happen. But... did you really not want to see Yu Musen?

In the great hall, a trace of puzzlement appeared on Blue Crocodile’s face. He had no idea why Ning Gang wanted to postpone the match, nor did he know when Ning Gang had left the hotel. His departure had been utterly soundless and unseen.

Tang Shuyao and Lezheng Yu sat on the sofa. Tang Shuyao’s face was full of चिंता—no, anxiety—her head lowered as she sat lost in thought.

This temple was immense, yet exceedingly crude, clearly only a temporary gathering place for the Bloodslaughter Alliance. There were no seals or defenses of any kind; everything about it was stark and makeshift.

At the mention of the Heaven-Bestowed Holy Church, fervor rose on the old man’s face, and all his earlier sorrow vanished without a trace.

But his words were directly ignored by Gu Yun. Toward Nick Young, who clung to Gu Zixuan like a strip of dogskin plaster and refused to let go, Gu Tian felt not the slightest favor. And the reason this accident had happened in the first place was inseparably tied to Nick Young’s grandstanding.

Those words made the assembled ministers curse inwardly. What a shameless climber—why not simply admit he had failed the examination? All he knew was how to read the emperor’s wishes and flatter him.

Lu Tao took the iron hammer, cupped his fist toward Su Huai, and walked down from the stage. “Su Huai wins,” the referee shouted as he stepped onto the arena platform.

“Then let me treat you to something to eat—something really delicious.” Mu Zifei looked at Shirley, his tone full of temptation.

“You don’t need to worry about that. If I want to, I could spend it all in minutes. I wouldn’t even need to buy a house. Do you believe me?” Wei Chixue said, pouting.

On the surface, the old master’s words sounded as though he was telling the judge to rule according to the law, but the meaning beneath them was already plain enough. If the judge still could not understand, then his head must truly have been kicked by a donkey.

“I’m sorry, teacher, but I can’t do it. It’s not only because of my mother, but also because of a promise I made to a friend.” Fan Yu spoke each word with deliberate firmness.

“The water level in my Spirit Lake... it’s risen the tiniest bit!” Xin Tianli immediately sensed the minute change in his spiritual lake with keen perception.

“Thank you, Mr. Anthony, but there’s still one thing I don’t understand. Weren’t all the private rooms booked by Wang Youqian? How is there suddenly space again?” Mu Zifei asked in confusion.

“Really?” Nezha refused to believe it. How hard could it be to catch a white deer? With his three heads and six arms, with his wheels of wind, thunder, and fire, let alone rare beasts—even divine beasts could be caught and kept for sport.

Chapter 141: Terrifying Pressure. Early the next morning, Mu Zifei arrived at the arena of the Royal Academy of Toronto.

Su Huai had not yet had the chance to voice his tearful gratitude when he heard the latter half of Fang Jin’s words. Looking around at the present circumstances, an inexplicable anger surged up in him at once. No wonder Fang Jin had not come until the dead of night—so the fellow had only come to summon him after waking up. At that moment, Su Huai truly wanted to smack him across the head.

With that, those long legs strode away in great sweeping steps, as though remaining here even one second longer would be torment.

One cold and one hot, one ice and one fire, one yin and one yang—gradually, above Ye Huan’s head, there appeared a phantom image of the dual principles of the Supreme Ultimate.

It had taken an entire day of flying to reach the border of the Nation of Mia. After all, Ye Huan was not a native of this world, so along the way he had to keep asking for directions to avoid straying from his course.

She must be terribly upset, terribly frightened. And after Qiyun had schemed against her before, she was bound to have been left with a shadow in her heart.

At those words, the last fantasy in Ye Huan’s heart finally shattered. The words had actually come from the mouths of his two masters. No matter what, he could not believe that Wu Yazi, who had always doted on him, wanted him to end his own life.

Only a Heavenly Master could draw red talismans, yet Ling Yunzi actually possessed golden talismans. Did that not mean Ling Yunzi had surpassed a Heavenly Master?

The Eight Trigrams and the Five Elements array opposed one another, like water and fire. Yet water and fire can sometimes merge, and so too can the Eight Trigrams and the Five Elements combine into an Eight Trigrams Five Elements Array.

Her only shortcoming, however, was a lack of learning ability. After all, in her former state-owned enterprise, studying had been done purely to cope with examinations, so she lacked sensitivity to new things. In this regard, she was completely inferior to Zhou Wei, the financial director of Zhoumei Electric.

“Qingmang, why do I feel that Shi Heng’s gaze is terrifying?” the ignorant little beast muttered.

At that moment, a voice rang out from behind Zhao Liang. Its overbearing tone was exactly the same as Zhao Liang’s just now, but Ling Xi found the voice oddly familiar, as though he had heard it somewhere before.

“Home...” Peng Haoming thought carefully about it. Home—what a beautiful place. There, one could do as one pleased, cast off all disguise; it was a place where both body and heart could completely relax.

As he pondered, he looked elsewhere. When his gaze swept over the area where Soulslayer Dominion was fighting the boss, he suddenly thought of something. His expression changed, and he immediately cut off Tyrant Butcher’s words.

The moment Hans made his move, the Vigilant Legion launched an attack on him at once. But Hans’s personal guards also threw themselves into offense and defense, holding them back. Hans himself turned into a cloud of blood and, like a shadow clinging to form, pursued Ashin far into the distance at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.

“Ah, you two are both pitiful children.” The old master’s words made me feel sorrowful as well. Pitiful... was that what we were?

Still, that was only to be expected. Wendy and the others had already seen Xianglong transform into a monstrous creature covered in scales from head to toe, so they did not react too strongly to this.

True enough. As the game grew more and more popular and more newcomers poured in, the beginner village had never again known quiet.

“Someone who specializes in researching fragments of the cosmos? Could it be the Heavenly Stone Sect?” Long Sheng cast Xiang Minming a sidelong glance.

“Not bad at all. Old fellow, you should try some too.” The two dragons ate away, while I silently returned to the house and had New Year’s Eve dinner with everyone, all while watching the Spring Festival Gala. Uncle Benshan was as lively as ever. Ah.