Volume 1, Chapter 34: If I Fall Into His Hands, I Am Doomed

Granny Zhang was so frightened by Song Xianwan that she involuntarily took two steps back.

“I could never mistake her. You are absolutely not my young mistress!”

Now that she stood there, she was caught in an impossible predicament.

Remembering the madam’s instructions, Granny Zhang grew even bolder. “You there—have you enjoyed the wealth and glory of the marquis’s residence so much that you refuse to leave?”

“Mother Liao, conduct the examination.”

Song Xianwan could not be bothered to argue with Granny Zhang any longer.

With exquisite skill, he guided the force of everyone’s swordplay toward another exit. It was the culmination of supreme martial prowess and intelligence.

As the great doors slowly swung open, a glittering and magnificent crystal palace came into view. Crystal lamps, crystal curtains, crystal furniture and ornaments—it was splendid and breathtakingly beautiful.

Jiang Xiao’s plan was to take advantage of the fact that they could not leave at that moment and depart ahead of them. Otherwise, if the people from the Sacred Hall of Reincarnation got out first and used some special method to search for him, he did not know whether they would be able to track him down.

Just as the onlookers were almost certain of Carl’s fate, his heart remained utterly calm. An iron will kept him from losing heart or collapsing beneath the pressure of fourfold force, while his icy rationality allowed him to control the rhythm of the force’s contraction with perfect precision.

Now that he had a proper look, the hall was exceedingly spacious. Tapestries hung along all four walls, embroidered with the ancient myths of Aixi: the sun god Horus, crowned with an eagle, parting the vast blue sea and raising the sun high as he welcomed the earth mother Medilis rising from the depths of the ocean.

But the sea of flowers had now vanished. Someone must have taken it away, and the fact that Niu Bi and Dong Laishun had seen that man enter the place was probably related to it.

After leaving the world of reincarnation, Ye Zheng prepared a little food and was about to go to sleep. Then he remembered that there were still matters to attend to and took out the image communicator. After a moment’s thought, he entered a connection code. A blurred figure appeared on the communicator, making it impossible to see the other person clearly.

He acted the moment the thought arose. With a single movement of his mind, everything across the entire space of Earth appeared within his field of vision. He soon found Yu Linger’s whereabouts: she was in his mother’s house.

Now what? The constables from the magistrate’s office had come to arrest the head of the household. What if he was taken away, tortured, and actually confessed?

Next came the welcoming of guests. One after another, they arrived, filling every outdoor seat specially prepared for the wedding.

“Miss Brightmoon, circumstances leave me no choice. This old monk must offend you!”

The Mad Monk swept Coral into his arms and bounded away in several leaps, vanishing from the chaotic scene in an instant.

Unfortunately, this effect of achieving twice the result with half the effort was completely useless to Xuan Yuan Yeyan and Danqing.

“We came back the day before yesterday. She hasn’t gone to see you?”

Long Sichu knew perfectly well that their last departure from Bing City had been for Rong Shaoqing, and that their return to Bing City this time was also for Rong Shaoqing.

“Ding Jiuxi, you’d better not go too far. She is your second elder sister, after all.”

Ding Ruoxue truly could not bear to watch any longer. They had not come here to chat at all; they had come purely to make themselves unwelcome.

Hearing that voice, I woke from my memories. What was wrong with me? Why had I been so fond of recalling the past lately? I was only seventeen, still young, yet I behaved like an old man, forever reminiscing about things that had already happened.

Following the principle of striking while the enemy was weak, Xuan Yuan Yeyan naturally had no intention of giving it a chance to recover. Raising her sword high, she prepared to deliver the final, fatal blow.

After hearing what he said, she was delighted, and promptly forgot everything she had said moments earlier.

That would have been fine had he not mentioned it. But the moment he did, Rong Jinxiu’s thoughts, which she had finally managed to suppress, fell into complete disarray once more. Even the hand with which she held Ding Jiuxi’s began to tremble unnaturally.

She was a little boy-crazy and would become flustered whenever she faced Song Chengxi, but she had not forgotten the mission in her heart. Was she truly using Song Chengxi? If not, then why had she been unable to answer when Xu Yunxi asked her that question that day?