27. Is There No Limit to the Healing Ability?!

The sound of the main gate opening reached them, and several pairs of eyes turned toward the entrance in unison.

Ruan Li hurried straight to the sofa. When she saw that lifeless, ashen face, her steps gradually slowed. The instant her trembling fingertips touched his cold cheek, overwhelming panic completely seized her heart.

The sleeping beastman seemed to sense the touch of his female master, and his chest suddenly heaved violently several times.

Gradually, without the slightest transition, everything seemed to—

He had already been inside for seven full months. But the Divine Elephant Pool had not been placed in any ordinary location; like a sacred land in southern Xinjiang, it occupied an independently created space.

I had not drawn any weapons. I intended to fight them bare-handed. After all, how could I know their strength without exchanging blows? Only by knowing both oneself and one’s enemy could one emerge victorious in every battle.

“You heard all that, and you still have some strange proclivities, do you?” Lu Xuan said with an amused, knowing smile.

Yun Wanhua nodded and did not pursue the matter further. She merely watched as Zhang Tong and the other man escorted the thin, tall fellow outside.

The five continued onward. Along the way, they also encountered several low-level God Emperor demonic beasts, which they dispatched without hesitation. Although their inner cores were not enough for Ling Tianjue to refine the Seven-Kill Soul-Seizing Pill, an inner core from a God Emperor–realm demonic beast was hardly something one could pick up like cabbages. Had Ling Tianjue not taken them, those cores would have been of immense use to him.

Seeing Mo Ke nod, Luo Wanmei finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was not afraid that such a thing would be impossible to find; what she feared was that, as Mo Ke had said, it had already become extinct. Even with all her abilities, she would never be able to locate it then. So long as it still existed on Earth, she could simply pay a greater price.

He took the silver spoon handed over by the Old Hag and fed the chicken blood into his mouth one spoonful at a time. His intoxicated expression suggested that he was savoring some delicacy he had never tasted before. The green light in his eyes flickered fitfully, while bright-red blood seeped from the corners of his mouth, making the sight terrifying beyond words.

Lian Niang froze for a moment, but in the blink of an eye she wiped her hand and produced five thousand spirit stones. Then, taking them from her storage pouch, she respectfully placed them in Long Luo’s hands.

“Yes, yes, yes. Cen’er, don’t worry. Because of the young master, I once learned a few ghost-banishing arts as well. Dealing with these things will be no problem. Just wait here.”

She ran back inside.

She had never imagined that Shen Jiaming would answer the phone while doing something like that. From the instant he picked up, she had held her breath, not daring to make the slightest sound.

At that moment, Chen Ying turned her gaze toward Wu Yuan. Apart from the guards keeping watch through the night, Wu Yuan was the only one who had remained outside. Whether he had noticed Qian Dong’s departure depended entirely on him.

“Because that was its fate in the film: to be stabbed to death, then cut apart.” Fang Zhu gave a sinister laugh.

Because of the epidemic, delivering takeout had become far more difficult than before. There were fewer orders, lower pay per order, and, most importantly, far too many people competing for delivery work.

Fang Shiqing dared to accept the breakfast they had brought for two reasons. First, the county soldiers had been hungry for half the night, and the county office had not finished preparing the meal. Second, she had no intention of eating for free; she would pay them the proper price.

The journey took them over endless mountains and rivers. Fortunately, maritime transport was flowing smoothly by then. They first traveled by sea from Guangzhou to Suzhou, then changed ships in Suzhou and headed north along the canals. After that, they abandoned the boat for carriages. By the time they entered Shanxi, more than two months had already passed.

If Su Zhen’s eyes had not been so discerning that he saw at a glance whose cultivation essence Yi Feishi had absorbed, he would not have told Su Zhen about the future.

Zhu Chongzhu led the bandit vanguard and was the first to appear outside the city gate. There, they saw a torch swaying in the wind beside the entrance. Beneath its pale-yellow glow, two county soldiers guarding the gate were yawning incessantly.

In the past, when Qin Fengyi was in the capital, her status and position made her, at most, an eccentric rarity. Things were different now. Ever since her true identity had been revealed and Qin Fengyi had become a vassal prince, the way she conducted herself had grown increasingly outrageous and utterly extraordinary.

The Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination was open to scholars from every province, so Li Datian could remain in the capital and take it there. The only drawback was that, because the Shuntian examination imposed no restriction based on native place, far more scholars came to sit for it than elsewhere, making the competition exceptionally fierce.