Chapter 829: One Hundred and Seventy-Six: Blood Within the Gate

One Hundred and Seventy-Six: Blood Within the Gate

“Xiao Xuan…”

Ouyang Rong opened his mouth to speak but held back; he had wanted to ask if she felt unwell, yet suddenly realized her discomfort might have been caused by his own accidental gesture just now.

He silently withdrew his hand, swallowed the words on his tongue, and hastily changed them:

“Sorry, I bumped into you. I meant to come in and find you, but you didn’t come out…”

Huang Xuan bowed her head, stifling her embarrassment; after he pulled his hand away, her small fingers twitched slightly

“Xiao Xuan…”

Ouyang Rong opened his mouth to speak but held back; he had wanted to ask if she felt unwell, yet suddenly realized her discomfort might have been caused by his own accidental gesture just now.

He silently withdrew his hand, swallowed the words on his tongue, and hastily changed them:

“Sorry, I bumped into you. I meant to come in and find you, but you didn’t come out…”

Huang Xuan bowed her head, stifling her embarrassment; after he pulled his hand away, her small fingers twitched slightly

Gu Lai Xiang’s eyes glistened with tears as she felt Gu Qianjing’s pulse and discovered he had merely fainted from excitement, with no serious issue.

Only when hunting on the mountain, after catching prey, would they reward the hunting dogs with the animal’s internal organs.

The fire before her gradually died out; autumn rain still fell silently, the lone city remained only broken walls and ruined foundations, and she had awakened from her past life, shattering a lifetime of beauty.

She first bowed apologetically to everyone with shy grace, then immediately apologized to Yun Zichen and Yun Mengqian—her demeanor was genuinely sincere.

Too bad this era had no mobile phones; otherwise, filming it and posting it online would have made it go viral.

Chu Yunlian’s heart kept rising and falling, uneasy, yet her face remained calm; a light sweat beaded on her palms, and she could no longer sit still in the carriage.

“Taken by Yi Chuan,” Ruo Li truthfully recounted every detail of last night’s events to Qi Yu.

Only then did everyone snap to awareness, each moving swiftly, their hands clean and precise as they tore the tags from the puppet soldiers.

Chu Yunlian was awakened the next day by being tormented—something kept brushing against her face, and strange murmurs whispered beside her ear; the sound nearly made her sick.

The Luoyang Imperial Palace had indeed harbored ill intent; once the map was completed, the true purpose would be revealed—they would order the Senluo Dao to eliminate all witnesses and permanently erase any threat.

Qing Yao stammered; indeed, her father had praised Hua Tianyi in front of her, but always one compliment followed by ten criticisms—now she truly didn’t know how to respond.

In the hollow, the blood-red lotus robe flapped loudly in the wind, but in an instant, it turned to ash and drifted away, revealing the man’s worn-out black fitted armor.

Dark force contracts power, like air in a cup—constantly condensing until the air within is compressed into a dense mass, allowing more air to enter the cup, then refining the condensed air by continuously swallowing new air, expanding the dark force until it produces three times the strength of an ordinary person.

Aside from the two controllers of the Ziduolan family, each of the other four families had only one controller; the power gap seemed minor, and Yi Yesi estimated that she could defeat them one by one without much trouble.

This planet, being too distant from its star, rotated and revolved at the same speed, so one side always faced inward while the other remained forever outward; it also lay at the outermost edge of the system, with its outer sphere directly aligned with the orbital path of the Twin Stars of Fire and Water.

He knew that even if he charged forward, his Out-of-Body realm strength could not kill Tian Bu Dai—Tian Bu Dai was surrounded by Body Integration and Soul-Partition cultivators; Mu Yu had no chance to act. He no longer hesitated, lightly tapped his toe, and flew toward the cave’s ceiling.

He remembered that when Mu Qingzi screamed, the final few array foundations and array points had briefly glowed, and the entire sealing array had been instantly linked by a cold, You light.

“Rude,” Wang Li muttered again; it was clearly she who had driven Zhong Xian away, yet she acted as if Zhong Xian had ignored her.

“Who are you? Why do you have the right to control me?” Again, that stubborn attitude—Mo Xuan broke free from Xiao Xiao and slammed the door shut.

Hearing the Ministry of Rites official call for the papers to be collected, he jolted awake and exhaled a long breath.

“On the Soul Bridge, I couldn’t sense the outside world, so I had no idea what was happening out there,” Lao Fan continued. “I thought you’d been captured by a peak Immortal Realm cultivator—that was bad enough. But it turned out to be a Divine Realm one—probably a lunatic…” He mumbled on, clearly embarrassed by the slip.