Chapter 105: A Reunion Once More

“You fellows are in luck. The Tianlin Airship Company of Chongming City is holding a grand promotion. Any cultivator who travels by airship during these three days will pay only half the usual number of spirit stones. What is more, whenever three people ride together, they may bring one additional passenger free of charge.”

Mu Ningzhu’s eyes lit up. “Such generous terms? Are there any conditions?”

Cultivators never believed in good fortune that fell from the heavens.

The shopkeeper readily replied, “A discount this generous naturally comes with a prerequisite—”

Su Hong merely gestured with a smile. “Ask the boss.”

Xiao Shaohua pressed a hand to his forehead, apparently never having imagined that this was how his colleagues saw him. A faint, rather helpless smile hung upon his face.

With a sharp crack, a teacup shattered before Eunuch Fang’s toes, making him shudder. Noble Consort Liang stared with bulging eyes, a dark and dangerous fury brewing in their depths. Her hand was clenched tightly around the armrest of the couch, and the whitened knuckles revealed how fiercely she was suppressing her anger.

By rights, Chenliu had not been lost, and those who had burned to death were all soldiers of Dong Zhuo’s army. Liu Ye ought to have been happy. Yet now, alongside his anger, there was unexpectedly a faint trace of sorrow in his heart.

His greatest mistake had been failing to turn himself completely into a wooden man, abandoning forever the attempt to possess thoughts of his own. Like his neighbors, like his former colleagues, like all those ordinary people lost in “grain”… If he had become such a person, what meaning would his life have held?

Wang Chongyang was momentarily stunned. This Number One Machine spoke with no regard for propriety and possessed a glib tongue, yet he had managed to coax Meryl into a thoroughly cheerful mood.

He did not know what twists of fate had led to this, nor what unfulfilled desires lay between them. But when two people in love were given no time to confess their feelings before being forced to face separation by death, then all that talk of seeing one another one last time was nothing but meaningless rubbish. How could one not regret it? How could one possibly not regret it?

Seeing how truly apprehensive Xing Conglian sounded, Lin Chen, held around the waist by him, could only speak half-jokingly.

Zhang Ren received the order relayed by Xu Shu. He nodded toward Liu Ye in the distance, then ordered the soldiers beside the firewood to set it alight.

Sometimes people were simply like that. In their subconscious, they had already decided upon the path they believed was theirs. Even if they walked part of the way according to someone else’s wishes, some measure of discomfort would still remain in their hearts.

Cao Zhihua led Wang Chongyang across the disorderly hall and straight to a doorway, where he knocked.

Once the inside of the temple had lit up, a sound came from before it. An arrow shot swiftly toward Ren Yanying.

“General Lin is a man of unyielding integrity. How could I use his corpse to purchase my own glory?” Wei Changge said.

“Yes. Although I don’t know what he did to the instruments, the doctors’ tests showed that he was a mental patient. That is why they issued him a certificate for acute brief psychotic disorder. But at least I know one thing: this fellow is absolutely not insane!” Yu Yali said.

The arrival of this joyful news delighted Su Hongyun and Linghu Xiuhua beyond measure. Hua Yumeng no longer had to attend to the affairs of the Hall of Yama; instead, she was kept at home every day to be waited upon.

The Desire-Rainbow Crimson Bat glanced at the vitality bomb and curled its lip. It raised a hand, intending to knock the bomb away, but just as its hand touched the vitality bomb—

At that moment, he was not the only one who felt an urge to curse his father in the face of such bizarre training. The other thirty trainees felt exactly the same.

The Delong faction was deeply entrenched, with roots spread far and wide; it was not something one could provoke lightly. Chen Qiaoshan knew that what he was doing was dangerous, and that even his personal safety might be threatened. But high risks brought high returns. At present, he had no other choice but to take the gamble.

Even so, the other party remained the Empire’s governor of Bayern and, in name, the ruler of the whole of Bayern, backed by the majesty of the Desalion royal family… Even though Charlotte Turin wished she could tear him limb from limb, she still had no choice but to maintain a show of respect and hospitality.