Chapter 88: Two People Deeply in Love Belong Together

“Huh? Why am I crying?” Seeing Ouyang Junyan carefully wipe away her tears, she did not know whether to laugh or cry. “I didn’t even realize it myself. Your love story must have been too moving!”

A pang of tenderness pierced Ouyang Junyan’s heart, and he said softly, “Silly girl, you’re so sentimental.”

“I’m really sorry!” It was her first time visiting their home, and she had inexplicably burst into tears right in front of her hosts. Fang Zhiyin felt terribly embarrassed.

But Zhao Jinchen’s wife thought her a sincere and genuine person. “It’s all right. Even though this is the first time we’ve met, we had such fun playing games together that I’ve already decided to make you my friend!”

Fang Zhiyin was deeply touched. “Sister, I like you very much too! And from the bottom of my heart—”

“Mother, Second Brother, Sister Wanqing’s matter has nothing to do with her. I was the one who insisted on giving it to her. She wasn’t trying to snatch it away,” Lin Wanwan said, only making things sound more suspicious.

“We can use divine intervention for this,” Shang Che cut in, raising a hand. Having adapted himself to local customs, he was quite practiced in such things.

Just as Wu Yinxiao turned to leave, he suddenly heard an uproar break out behind him.

The weeping of the merfolk and the laughter of phantom butterflies shared a strangely similar effect. Shi Xi’s unconscious sobbing gradually calmed Wei Xiang’s towering rage, and an uncontrollable sorrow rose from the depths of his heart.

“So now you know better. At first, who was it that kept acting precious?” Ye Qianqiu teased.

After Zhao Qiqi finished bathing and changed her clothes, Sima Yu drew her into his arms and gently, painstakingly dried her hair.

For all these days, she had kept her eyes closed, using her spiritual sense to survey the land of Huaxia. Emergency supplies were continuously being delivered into people’s hands. Fortunately, the weather was not cold, or even more people would have died.

Now she had gained favor on the Emperor Kangxi’s side, and that hurdle was basically passed. As long as she did not earn the reputation of being his sole adored favorite, there was little real danger left.

Before, in front of Liu Yiran, he had feigned weakness, yet hatred had been thick in that one eye. How could he possibly have grown so warm after only a short time apart?

Those words left E Yun, who had not yet reached that level, utterly dumbfounded. Though the human and demon races were not truly locked in irreconcilable enmity, they did not lightly engage in trade with one another. In the demon world, what was prized was what was born of heaven and earth; inheritance was not especially valued. Even when bloodline legacies existed, the younger generation still had to grow through slaughter and prove themselves through tempering.

Once the changes in his body stabilized, Qin Ge’s formerly swollen muscles had not vanished entirely, but had instead been compressed and condensed. Though his body still retained the shape of a youth, the previous sense of frailty was gone. Instead, it was as though he had been reforged and sculpted anew.

This left Su Mu, who had already not known how to begin, sinking once more into an even deeper silence.

One had to know that Zhou Hao possessed all five elemental spiritual roots, and had encountered one stroke of fortune after another. His body had been tempered to an extraordinary degree, and he had always been supremely confident in it. When had he ever spoken of defeat so lightly? Besides, he had only just won a thousand-year spiritual herb. To him, that was merely a drop in the bucket. Even another hundred such herbs would not be too many for him. How could he possibly admit defeat so easily?

General Tianyi, clad in imposing armor, also stepped out from within. He cast Fengdu a faint glance, then withdrew his gaze and fixed all his attention on Fengming.

The reason it was named Xuanji City and Jade Pivot Lake was to commemorate that clan. In truth, the Jade Xuanji Clan had never truly vanished; only, as the years drifted by, each generation of cultivators could learn no more than a fragment or two of that mysterious family from old records and legends.

Though faced with everything before him, even Deng Biduo himself truly had no power to prevent it from happening.

As instructed, Xiao Ningsu slightly raised her graceful head. A cold and severe gaze pierced toward her, and in that instant she felt as though she stood utterly bare, seen through inside and out by True Master Qizhen. A moment later the gaze softened somewhat. True Master Qizhen’s long, narrow brows twitched, and as he spoke, his high cheekbones lifted faintly.

And so, in the pitch-black night when it was inconvenient to set out, Han Jun kept his silence sealed tight and did not reveal the altered route to anyone.

“Heh heh heh!” While he was speeding along, three figures blazing with golden light suddenly hemmed Zhang Jin in from all sides.

I smiled and said nothing. I did not know how to explain these things to him. Besides, I did not want to bring up certain matters concerning my master again. Now that I knew of it, a sudden impulse had risen in me. I wanted to return home and get to the bottom of it, to see whether things were truly as he had said.