Chapter Thirty-Nine: Panic Takes Hold

After Xiaotao finished speaking, tears still trickled from the corners of her eyes, and her face was filled with sorrow. After hearing her, people in the livestream flooded the chat with comments:

[If we go by what Xiaotao said, could her sister have been taken away by human traffickers? If so, the chances of finding her again probably aren’t very high, are they? After all, it’s been more than twenty years.]

[Isn’t that obvious? She must have been taken by traffickers. Those people are utterly despicable. I just can’t understand how they can...]

“There you are.” Zhen’er returned, set the pastries aside, and went inside to pour Liu Bang some tea.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere was somewhat awkward, and everyone seemed ill at ease. It was clear what kind of presence Thousand-Mountain Rain held in their hearts.

Once the Shadow Guard received the order, he secretly began to act. Before long, Fei Yushu’s face gradually turned pale. She clenched her teeth tightly, her features twisted with unbearable pain.

Fortunately, while he had been in the human realm, he had amassed several hundred trillion. In the Immortal Realm, superior-grade immortal crystals had become increasingly scarce; what he encountered each time were supreme-grade and mystic-grade crystals, and now it was not unusual for him to come across king-grade ones.

Aside from the lowest level, the “Cutesy Zombie,” which Dodo had created as a joke, the other ranks were more or less the same. Everyone was only having a bit of fun with it.

The body of the ancient demon beast alone was priceless, worth almost as much as a low-grade divine artifact. And who knew what might be hidden deeper inside the cavern? What if Huang Zheng got there first and took the rest of the immortal’s treasures?

Empress Lü nodded weakly. She emerged from Liu Bang’s arms and touched her forehead as well. It was icy cold.

He was the crown prince of the Soul Realm. He should have inherited his father’s will, conquered the Fallen Realm, and raised its people like livestock to provide energy. But now he no longer wished to do that. All he wanted was to remain peacefully with the person he loved.

Here, not only was the temperature unaffected, even the changing seasons seemed to have no influence. Flowers and trees that should have grown in summer flourished vigorously, while plants that ought to have grown in winter swayed in the breeze.

“Didn’t you eat? I couldn’t hear you clearly,” Luoyu said blandly. As her voice faded, a ring of lightning crackled around the training ground.

Her smile was fresh and sweet, her eyes curved into beautiful crescents, and anyone who saw her could not help but feel delighted.

The man did not take it. Instead, he pressed down on the back of her head, bent over, and sealed her lips with his own, drawing out and swallowing the ice cream that had not yet fully melted in her mouth.

And this was the strange reality of the entertainment industry: some people rose to fame through notoriety, while others built their careers on scandals.

Chan’er took two peeled lychees and stuffed them into her mouth at once, puffing out her cheeks.

Yang Cheng finally finished telling the story of the Calabash Brothers. He swallowed, picked up the water flask beside him, and took a drink.

Lu Junqi’s expression was solemn and his tone sincere. His words made Xiao Tiance forget, for the moment, the bump on his forehead.

Those illusionary realms, which they had controlled for a long time, had long since been fitted with surveillance equipment.

Starbucks stared excitedly with shining eyes. In all his life, he had never seen so much silver.

In the Azure Sparrow Tribe, relying on the fact that it was the witch’s bonded beast, the Muddy Bull ate whatever it wanted and slept wherever it pleased. No one else dared to discipline it.

The Muddy Bull widened its eyes in disbelief. It felt as though it were trapped in some kind of hallucination. How could it possibly feel such fondness for Yang Cheng?

Suddenly, a commotion erupted at the entrance. Then people could be seen shooting into the sky from all around Southern City, only to plummet back down moments later. In the distance, a battle standard fluttered in the wind, dragons and tigers entwined across it, fierce and mighty yet exuding an intensely murderous aura. In this world, who besides the Dragon-Tiger Army would dare use the Dragon-Tiger Banner?

Afterward, Xiao Ruoyun clung to me for a while longer. Perhaps the hospital had urged her to return, because she did not stay much longer and reluctantly left the Yu residence. As she departed, she kept reminding me that I must go see her whenever I had the time—to Jiangmen, where she would cook for me.