Volume One, Chapter 114: Rescue Successful! Escaping the Island

In the dawn sea fog, a long, mournful ship’s whistle cut through the silence, startling a line of white gulls along the shoreline.
Xiao Li staggered upright from the rocks, the palm-leaf torch in his hand nearly dropping into the sea.
It was due to the experience of his last clash with the serpent-tortoise; had it been a Golden-Dan fiend-beast instead, Hong Jian would not have felt so confident, nor dared to strike so wildly.
After Yuan Chengtian entered deep meditation, thoughts of the Five Realms left him truly restless. The Two Azure Dragon Excellencies were struggling mightily to hold things together, but whether they could sustain it for ten years, until he reached the Jinzhong Heaven realm, was still uncertain. Before he entered stillness for cultivation, he had to settle this matter first.
Everyone in the assembly fell silent with sorrow. Xingtian Palace, one of the three great Daoist sects, was immensely strong; when the barbarians once sought to invade the Central Plains from the south, Xingtian had repelled them with no greater effort than a wave of dust. Yet now it had been erased in silence, with no warning at all.
Si Xiu nodded slightly, then followed Lin Heihu out through the gate. Outside Najie Tower, the atmosphere was already one of grim quiet. Three hundred common-armored soldiers stood in immaculate rank, and not a single idle passerby remained on the long street before the gate; they had been cleared away.
A wall beside them cracked with a resounding boom. Anya dropped her head like a bolt of lightning; a spinning stone fragment brushed past her scalp, and the remaining shards and chips rained down in a sharp hiss, pelting her like buckshot.
Dongkui drew up the carriage curtain and looked a short distance ahead, where Zhu Jingshen, heir of Prince Kang, rode his horse. She lowered her eyelids, concealing the faint depth in her eyes, and slowly stepped out of the carriage.
She seized the chance, pulled herself free, and quickly knelt beside Linghe, who lay on the ground, barely breathing.
After this, Liang Xin and Shangguan Yizhi, both masters of light-step arts, were the first to leap onto the ship. Soon Liang Xin’s boat edged slowly toward it, and Yin Jianglin, Liang Rui, and several dozen riders of the Western Factory Iron Cavalry also leaped aboard.
At that moment Pengshan was calculating how to use his five thousand light cavalry to quickly sweep away the garrison troops at Xizhou, for in that way he could also replenish Xizhou’s grain supply.
On that day in Xuanwu Sea, during his breakthrough meditation, he had tried that art several times before, but nothing had felt as real as this battlefield. Only after this clash did Yuan Chengtian truly realize that his spiritual power had reached the Tongxuan realm.
Tell Assistant An to say that the lady is talking very happily with a male performer, and the man has even begun teaching her how to pitch a tent, hand over hand.
He was pinned fast to the ground by a colossal force, unable to move. It struck all at once, descending like a mountain, as if his body would burst under the pressure. Not only him, but everyone—human or alien—was subjected to the same crushing gravity.
Once the Ming warships entered Dongting Lake, the main Han fleet hidden at Honghu in Jingzhou poured out in full force and occupied the Yuyang entrance of Dongting Lake. The main body of the fleet continued to chase the Ming squadron.
To tell the truth, he was rather torn now. As Chen Erya had once joked, he was eyeing what was in the bowl while still yearning for what was on the pot.
Besides, Mu Qianqian kept replaying in her mind the bloody horror on the training ground, and she dared not leave the dormitory any more.
But he did not dare to tell Andora directly that Fuye had come looking for him; until Fu Hang clearly showed that he was not fond of him, he did not want Andora to form any impression of Fu Hang.
She was in the middle of having fun when she saw Ping An’s head poking over the wall. That fellow was lazy, too—he was too lazy even to step out and make the rounds, so he came by climbing over the wall.
They called out, but those people did not slow in the slightest. In less than a minute they had left Liu Kai and Can Shao stripped bare. After succeeding, they moved back to clear a patch of open ground. A bundle of clothes had already been tossed over.