Chapter 66: Jiuyou Awakens

Morning...

Xiao Yan gently wiped Ning Jiuyou's fingers with a damp cloth, moving from her knuckles down to her arm, and finally covering the back of her hand.

Seeing that her fingernails still maintained a faint grayish-blue hue, though bearing a touch more vitality than the day before, he dipped the cloth in water and stroked her palm, recalling the lively image of Ning Jiuyou once tossing roasted chestnuts with these very hands to tease him, her fingertips still dusted with powdered sugar.

"Today, the little fairy doctor picked some fresh Qiangli-xiang." He immersed the damp cloth back into the bronze basin, reflecting the dark circles under his eyes.

A faint smile hung on Helen's face, a stark contrast to her usual stern demeanor.

Earth-shattering explosions rang out across the wasteland outside the Red Star Fortress base; energy core rays filled both the sky and the ground.

"What are you doing?" Bai Yu instinctively touched his chest. Seeing the pendant in Long Wu's hand, his brow furrowed deeply as he reached out to snatch it back.

Hearing the bewildered voice from inside the house, the middle-aged man let out a long sigh, then placed the large burlap sack he had been carrying on his shoulder down onto the ground.

As overlords who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, Simo's savings surely amounted to more than just the Qingwei Corporation, right?

"What... what the hell?!" Wu Lingtian's pupils constricted, a tumultuous storm raging in his heart. As a city lord, what kind of grand scenes had he not witnessed? Yet this current spectacle truly left him utterly dumbfounded.

In the end, when he stood beneath the half-closed door of the earthen house and looked up, he could clearly see that the plaque was indeed inscribed with the three characters "Jing'an Coffin." However, the character for "Coffin" was in the middle, with "Jing'an" preceding it, which indicated that there should be two more characters following the word "Coffin."

Just as Liu Shuang knocked down his tenth bodyguard, he suddenly sensed a powerful force—the aura of an Esper. Could there be another Esper here? A thought flashed through Liu Shuang's mind.

Zhao Kai had already handed over the last few thousand yuan in his bank account to Zhang Cuihua; how could he possibly have any more money to give him? Although he agreed verbally with every intention of compliance, he took no action whatsoever. After offering a few perfunctory remarks, his demeanor seemed to suggest that Zhang Cuihua would undoubtedly stay the night at their home.

What had previously been shattered by Li Hexian's broken-weapon ability was the sword intent, and what had been absorbed was the sword soul.

Seeing that the exchange meeting could no longer continue, and unable to stop these two young people, the crowd could only wear polite smiles while appreciating the competition between the younger generation.

In truth, Honglian was quite clever; she had chosen the right person by turning to the Empress Dowager. Within the entire Yi King's Palace, the only person whom Shen Che would obey was the Empress Dowager.

There was not a shred of color on Ying Ming's face. Following closely behind Luoli, he grabbed her arm.

"To think you possess such power; it certainly exceeds my expectations." Chuan Tong leaped up from the ground, unconcerned, and walked toward the Ghost Emperor.

"Valley... Valley Master..." A disciple of the Lingxiao Valley walked in tremblingly. The atmosphere was as bizarre as it could possibly be.

"What do you want?" Fuyun Nuan didn't care much about what Hu Mengyu had said to her senior brother, but she was rather curious about what Yu Pianpian was about to say.

Indeed, her skin was as white as snow, and her taut, slender waist seemed almost too frail to span with one hand. A large expanse of snow-white skin was exposed beneath the unzipped zipper, stirring one's imagination, and his voice grew low and hoarse as he spoke.

Lu Chuanquan dropped her off at the doorway, got out of the car along with her, and walked inside without treating himself as an outsider.

Lu Xiaoge's opponent was a tall, thin young man in his early twenties. Facing Lu Xiaoge, he was clearly somewhat nervous.

Gu Xidong had plotted this long ago, and his plane tickets had been purchased well in advance. Once aboard the plane, he took out a travel guide he had prepared from goodness knows where and began reading it, looking every bit like a genuine tourist.

His master was so ruthless, intending to obliterate him directly; at this moment, he was the very embodiment of pure hatred.

Seeing that she was listless and had lost her initial passion, Luo Chiheng decided to quit while he was ahead. After a rapid burst of acceleration, he released her, and a few seconds later, Lin Weiwei fell fast asleep, dead to the world.