Chapter 196

"Heh."

A light laugh came from Yu Miaomiao's mouth, immediately followed by a harsh, sharp grinding of teeth.

Before lighting the lamp and traveling along the river, her mother had taught her to be careful of those people with good brains.

She had always listened to her mother's words. Anyone she thought had a better brain than her, as long as she could catch an opportunity, she would kill them if she could.

In her view, as long as all the smart people were killed, she would relatively become smarter and smarter.

After all, improving oneself is difficult, while reducing opponents is easy.

The youth in the guesthouse who was the same age as her gave her this feeling of wanting to kill him, but he just wouldn't step out of the formation even one step, making her unable to find an opportunity at all.

The one in front of her also had a very good brain.

Yu Miaomiao: "You people who like to calculate are truly disgusting. Why can't you just fight uprightly!"

Zhao Yi: "..."

Zhao Yi didn't know how to respond for a moment.

No, wasn't it you who used schemes and tricks to control the purple sable and the bird earlier?

You can't just because your calculation failed and you were calculated against, feel that you are still clean and upright, right?

"Your jade fragment has been sent back there again, right?"

Yu Miaomiao turned her head and looked at the village in the distance. The guesthouse's house could only be seen as a very small and blurry black dot at this time.

Zhao Yi: "Hmm."

Yu Miaomiao's gaze turned cold: "Then you can go..."

Zhao Yi immediately shouted: "I have always been framed and slandered. I suspect there is a mastermind using some kind of secret technique to make that corpse Qi follow me, causing me to be constantly hunted by righteous people.

Actually, I am innocent. Look, I don't have that evil object in my hand; that was a fake!"

While escaping, he was carving jade. Beside his ears, there was the chatter of the Mountain Woman clearly and implicitly telling him to abandon his companions. He really wasn't easy.

Yu Miaomiao: "You have carried corpse Qi for so long, and so many people have seen it. Now you use a secret technique to hide your aura, and you naively think you can escape sanctions? You must know that the net of heaven is vast, and nothing escapes it."

Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment. How could this girl's brain be confused for a while and clear for a while?

"A-Yuan, slaughter him!"

A-Yuan nodded heavily and swung his fist toward Zhao Yi.

If this punch landed, Zhao Yi, who was already soft as boneless, would fear he would immediately become "body like catkins" in the literal sense.

Zhao Yi closed his eyes and shouted in his heart:

Kid surnamed Li, even if it's just for the sake of the fact that I twice chickened out and didn't dare to bet and didn't make a move to kill you, you should save me, right!

"Boom!"

Air waves rolled, and Zhao Yi was flipped over. But when he was in the air, he checked his physical condition. All arms and legs were intact; he was just blown away.

A leather whip bound Zhao Yi's body and caught him steadily.

Yin Meng placed him by her feet and simply checked his physical condition. It was simply unimaginably terrible.

What was even more unimaginable was that he could actually still be alive.

Through his chest, which was almost half-open, one could even see a damaged and blackened heart, still beating arduously. Every beat seemed to be a final struggle.

Zhao Yi breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you."

Along with the huge joy, a strong regret also surged.

That kid surnamed Li sent someone to save me!

Damn it, now it can be 100% confirmed that that kid surnamed Li wasn't pretending before, but that everyone was seriously injured and unconscious!

Otherwise, there was no emotional connection between him and that kid surnamed Li at all.

Ahead, Runsheng crossed his arms and blocked A-Yuan's punch.

The other party just wanted to kill a person who was extremely weak and didn't use full strength at all, but even this simple and casual punch made Runsheng feel strong pressure.

A smile appeared on A-Yuan's face. He was also curious about this guy who had received his punch.

He raised his fist again. This time, he wanted to be a bit more serious.

But just at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared beside him, and a sharp trident stabbed directly at his neck.

A-Yuan changed the punch that should have been swung toward Runsheng to a slap toward his side.

"Bang!"

After flicking the trident away, A-Yuan also took advantage of the situation and kicked toward Runsheng.

All of this was completed in a flash.

Runsheng pressed down with the Yellow River shovel and braced against this kick from the other party.

The originally flicked-away trident seemed to appear again in a non-physical way, launching a second attack.

A-Yuan stepped on the ground with one leg and slid backward quickly, opening up the distance.

It was completely possible to continue fighting, and it was quite interesting, but the young lady didn't inform him that she allowed him to be injured.

The area where the two sides had briefly fought earlier had the fields sunken. Both sides' centers of gravity were very stable, and every exchange was a competition of centers of gravity. The one injured the most was the earth.

The Bai He Tongzi's vertical pupils flickered, spitting out one word:

"Demon!"

Immediately after, the Bai He Tongzi also looked at Yu Miaomiao, who was standing not far away.

This young girl also had a big problem!

The Tongzi spread his left hand, and the trident that had been flicked away earlier flew back into his hand. His right hand continued to hold a trident condensed by spell means.

He spread his legs, pressed his center of gravity down, indicating his serious attitude.

Runsheng waved the Yellow River shovel in his hand and held it in front of his chest. The basin of noodles he had just finished eating before coming out added a lot of confidence to him.

Yes, only after truly fighting could one perceive each other's strength.

This thin, tall man in front of him seemed to contain some kind of extremely terrifying power in his body.

Yu Miaomiao's eyelashes flipped lightly. Her pupils flowed with amber-like luster in the dark night, staring at a place diagonally ahead like cat eyes.

That area of the black curtain twisted, and Tan Wenbin's figure appeared.

He had been sneaking around using the ability of his two godchildren.

Since he had already been seen through, there was no need to hide anymore. After coming out, Tan Wenbin also greeted Zhao Yi:

"Brother Zhao, fortunately, we didn't arrive a step too late."

Zhao Yi also returned a warm smile to Tan Wenbin.

Actually, Zhao Yi knew very clearly that this wasn't filming a TV series, so where would there be so many critical moments and saving people under the blade?

These guys must have arrived long ago, but they were hiding and didn't come out earlier.

They should have wanted to use the hands of the Yu family to kill his two subordinates, so that after entering the banquet, he would completely become a lone person, making it convenient to manipulate and cooperate.

It was just that this girl didn't kill his subordinates first, but wanted to kill him first, which forced them to appear immediately.

Yu Miaomiao asked: "What about him?"

Tan Wenbin pointed toward the guesthouse direction and smiled: "Girl, my Brother Xiaoyuan asked me to bring you a sentence: time is running out."

Yu Miaomiao heard this, as if she remembered something, her eyes widening.

Tan Wenbin's eyes also widened together: What, you really don't know?

He really couldn't understand. Even if you think you are very strong, you at least have to hold the qualification you should get in your hands before wasting time wandering around here blindly.

Did you really forget this part?

Tan Wenbin finally realized why his own Brother Xiaoyuan said several times at home that he couldn't deduce her behavioral logic.

Because people, it seems, really have no logic.

Tan Wenbin continued: "Brother Xiaoyuan said, he has two jade fragments in his hands. If you want them, girl, you have to hurry up and break the formation. He is waiting there quietly.

Of course, before you break the formation, girl, you have to solve us few first. We will try our best to strive to drag out a little more time for Brother Xiaoyuan."

After speaking, Tan Wenbin began to pinch hand seals, preparing to use the Ghost Control Technique. The voices of the two children sounded in the dark night, singing the nursery rhymes Tan Wenbin had taught them.

It was just that this nursery rhyme, in the current environment, was eerie.

Runsheng opened fifteen Qi gates on his body, adding a whistle to the night wind.

The Bai He Tongzi flipped his hands, and the original trident turned into two talisman needles, the tips pressing against his opera costume, ready to be inserted at any time.

The opponent was very powerful, but it wasn't to the point of having to risk his life right from the start. Fighting slowly and consuming slowly, and then revealing his trump cards one by one depending on the situation, wasn't impossible.

But the problem was, they had just recuperated from their injuries and weren't in their peak state. Furthermore, seeing that the first round was about to end and they were about to enter the banquet, consuming their state in a life-and-death fight right now was truly unwise. God knows what kind of difficult obstacles they would face after entering the banquet.

But Tan Wenbin had rich experience in fighting and brawling at school, so he knew that if you want to avoid a fight, you have to put on a posture of risking your life right from the start!

A-Yuan slowly straightened his body, and a series of crisp bone sounds came from his body. Very quickly, he, who was already very tall, became even taller.

He was looking forward to it, and also excited. His gaze had been falling on Runsheng.

Because only this one was truly using his own strength, while the others were all strange skills.

Yu Miaomiao turned her head and glanced at A-Yuan: "Squat down!"

A-Yuan's aura paused. The young lady didn't intend to fight.

He was very regretful. It was a pity; it should have been a hearty opportunity to enjoy.

Yu Miaomiao climbed onto A-Yuan's back, pinched the skin on his neck with her fingers, and twisted hard. A-Yuan grimaced in pain, and then ran toward a direction.

That direction was exactly where the first jade fragment was currently located.

The distance wasn't close, but as long as one ran fast enough, it wasn't considered far.

Tan Wenbin took out a cigarette case, lit a cigarette for himself, and after a long inhalation, exhaled it long.

Honestly, even setting aside that young girl, just that thin, tall man had already given him pressure far exceeding Xu Yijin that night.

Xu Yijin had decent personal strength and rich means, but many of her means had no room to be displayed under the strong assault of Runsheng and A-You.

But this one was different. Tan Wenbin suspected that he had the ability to have a head-on collision with Runsheng, who had all his Qi gates open.

Fortunately, although that young girl's brain had some problems, at least she could calculate a simple time calculation problem.

Under the premise that time no longer allowed it, she naturally wouldn't choose the hard-to-chew formation again. After all, with the strength of her and the one under her, forcefully killing their way into the first jade fragment competition would have a higher success rate.

"Take the wounded away, we are going back."

Tan Wenbin personally carried Zhao Yi.

"Hiss..." Zhao Yi was frozen to the point of gasping. "Change someone to carry me, change someone..."

Just that moment earlier, Zhao Yi almost had a cardiac arrest from the cold.

Tan Wenbin: "Is Young Master Zhao's body actually this delicate?"

Zhao Yi glanced at Binbin unhappily: "Are you not planning to date in the future?"

"I have an object."

"You kid are not authentic, fraudulent marriage."

"After recuperating for two more days, my body won't be cold."

This was the residual sequelae of the last time he used the Ghost Control Technique, plus he had just done a set of preparatory movements.

Zhao Yi: "After this ends, give me an address, and I'll send you more of my family's Rehmannia pills, letting Old Tian make the highest quality ones, the kind that only the older generation in my family is qualified to eat."

"Exquisite, come, Young Master Zhao, let me carry you again."

"Don't, go away!"

When everyone returned to the guesthouse, Li Zhuiyuan was in his room, attempting to continue sealing this second jade fragment.

He failed.

This thing, after completely erupting, was very difficult to block back. Moreover, in the already messy residual seal, there were more auras of Gu techniques and life-and-death seams.

Li Zhuiyuan would rather manipulate the formation to have a fight with those who came to the door than continue to bury his head in researching this thing. The smell when his great-grandfather's family shoveled manure and applied fertilizer was even fresher than this.

Outside the room came Tan Wenbin's voice:

"Brother Xiaoyuan, we are back. Shall I bring Young Master Zhao to you for a look?"

"Don't look, just put them all on the terrace."

Tan Wenbin immediately understood Brother Xiaoyuan's meaning and instructed others to carry Zhao Yi and his two subordinates all onto the terrace.

Xu Ming was okay. Although his body couldn't move, at least his consciousness was clear.

He only needed to recuperate, and with the cooperation of medicine, even if his strength could only recover two or three percent, at least he could be of some use when entering.

As for Sun Yan, after being bitten back by the pet she raised, she had fallen into a deep coma.

Even if she could wake up in time, Zhao Yi didn't plan to take her to enter the banquet anymore.

If that Yu family girl finally snatched the first jade fragment and also entered the banquet, then taking Sun Yan in would be equivalent to bringing a helper for them in disguise.

Looking at his subordinates, then looking at the subordinates of that kid surnamed Li, Zhao Yi sensed the gap.

But this gap wasn't reflected in the level of "finding subordinates." The subordinates he found didn't have bad foundations, but Li was more willing to cultivate them and more willing to share merit with them to help them grow step by step.

Merit is something mysterious, but if the lamp-lighter is truly willing to help them, after every wave, the subordinates can naturally share more.

Yin Meng helped Zhao Yi and the others clean their wounds and change into new clothes. Lin Shu, who had rich experience in face-painting, was asked to apply makeup for them.

Last time, everyone had to deliberately appear very frail, with the purpose of smoothly handing over the jade fragments in their hands.

This time, everyone had to appear very strong and healthy.

"Hiss." Tan Wenbin smacked his lips and said to Lin Shu, "A-You, apply the makeup heavily. There's no need to deliberately reflect your makeup skills. It's not asking you to paint it so it looks like you didn't wear makeup!"

"Oh, okay!"

Lin Shu was very obedient and immediately followed Brother Bin's instructions to apply heavy makeup.

Very quickly, the styling was completed.

The soft-as-boneless Zhao Yi sat on a chair, Xu Ming, whose whole body couldn't move, was tied to the railing, and Sun Yan, who was in a coma, was arranged with both hands around Zhao Yi's neck, sticking to the chair Zhao Yi was sitting on, lowering her head, as if she were affectionately acting like a spoiled child.

Even that bird that had been twisted to death by Brother Xiaoyuan had its corpse reused, standing on Sun Yan's shoulder like a specimen, but it took quite a bit of glue.

Zhao Yi and Xu Ming, who should have been in a withered and seriously injured state with more breath going out than coming in, became handsome and dashing under Lin Shu's makeup!

Tan Wenbin nodded with satisfaction and patted A-You's shoulder: "It can be seen that you kid didn't watch 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' less during winter and summer vacations."

Lin Shu: "I like 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils' more."

"Alright, you all choose your positions well, don't overlap. I'll go down and notify Brother Xiaoyuan."

Tan Wenbin went downstairs.

Zhao Yi looked at Sun Yan, who was very close to him, with some helplessness and opened his mouth: "My subordinates and I don't have that kind of relationship."

Lin Shu said to Zhao Yi: "I heard that your family once proposed marriage to Grandma Liu..."

Zhao Yi, who was originally weak, was so scared that he immediately widened his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense, destroying the relationship between me and Brother Zhuiyuan!"

Lin Shu smiled at him with ill intent.

But who was Zhao Yi? He just narrowed his eyes slightly and immediately retorted:

"Look at how happy you are. Did you kid also do inappropriate things in terms of feelings, missing someone you shouldn't have?"

Hearing this, Lin Shu felt a chill in his tailbone, and his whole person stood straight.

Zhao Yi continued: "Oh, the main person is also here, and the main person doesn't know yet.

Let me guess, who could it be?

The two people you are truly afraid of here are not surnamed Li, so that means surnamed..."

Lin Shu: "I warn you, don't talk nonsense, destroying the relationship between me and Brother Bin!"

Zhao Yi: "Then help me change her posture, tie Sun Yan and the dead bird that is still shedding feathers on her to Xu Ming's side, and let them perform 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'."

"This styling, Brother Bin has already accepted..."

"Tan Wenbin, I want to tell you a huge secret!"

Lin Shu immediately went to change positions.

Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin walked up together. In the wooden box in his hand were two jade fragments.

The corpse Qi of one of them could no longer be suppressed and began to drift upward, already enough to attract attention from all sides.

In fact, the changes in the Feng Shui weather around indicated that people had already begun to approach here.

But in terms of proportion, there weren't as many as imagined. That was probably because many people had witnessed the formation here that night, and after discovering that the corpse Qi location was here again, after weighing the two, many people preferred to go compete for the other jade fragment.

But even so, the base was there after all, and there were still quite a few people who came, but no one was a fool enough to be the first to break the formation.

Li Zhuiyuan looked down at the two jade fragments in the wooden box and found that cracks were gradually appearing on them, presenting a trend of calcification.

This meant that it had already entered the countdown.

Li Zhuiyuan even wanted to research how to accelerate this process, but on second thought, if there was a deviation due to his own intervention, causing the two invitation letters in hand to have problems, that would be too much of a loss.

It didn't matter. For the last bit of time, waiting is waiting.

Tan Wenbin looked at Xu Ming and Sun Yan, who were tied together at the railing and proudly facing the wind, and asked:

"Why did you change positions?"

Lin Shu: "Because..."

Zhao Yi: "Look, Xu Ming is missing an arm, plus that bird, isn't it the most standard 'Return of the Condor Heroes'?"

Hearing this, Tan Wenbin nodded: "It is indeed."

Immediately after, Tan Wenbin asked again: "I seemed to hear you calling me downstairs just now."

Zhao Yi smiled: "My family has an ancestral secret method suitable for controlling and restraining spiritual objects on the body. I can teach it to you, so that you can better control them and reduce the invasion of ghost Qi on your body."

Tan Wenbin shrugged: "Forget it, there's no need for this. I don't need to control and restrain them; the two children are very obedient."

"But, your body..."

"It won't be long before the two children can go to be reincarnated."

"You are really willing." Zhao Yi could see that the two grievance-infants were fed fat and moist, not knowing how much merit they had shared and how much opportunity they had gained.

"This is something I promised their mother."

Tan Wenbin was too lazy to waste any more words on this matter and walked over to adjust the posture and standing positions of Runsheng and Yin Meng.

"Runsheng, you stand in the middle. When needed later, you open a few Qi gates and fan some wind, blowing everyone's hair and clothes up. Remember not to open too many Qi gates; if the wind is too big, it's easy to blow things into a mess.

Mengmeng, you put out more empty cans, and also take the seasoning cans from Fatty Fat Jin Ge's kitchen.

Stack them as high as possible. Put some real things in the top few cans, the kind of poison powder with low toxicity. You watch and sprinkle a little to create a gray atmosphere. Don't sprinkle too much, sprinkle toward the sky, don't sprinkle toward people."

As for Lin Shu, he didn't need instructions. He directly painted a full makeup of Guan Jiang Shou for himself, even wearing the fang set, looking truly imposing.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, Fatty Fat Jin Ge and his family have already rested."

According to the old rules, the front room where Fatty Fat Jin Ge's family lived was isolated separately, so they couldn't hear the movement outside.

"Hmm." Li Zhuiyuan paused, a look of pain appearing on his face.

However, before Li Zhuiyuan could speak, Tan Wenbin said first: "Once things become uncontrollable, I will go to lift the front room formation and send them out. Oh no, it's me mixing in with his family and escaping."

The look of pain on Li Zhuiyuan's face disappeared.

The corpse Qi erupting from the jade fragments was like a pillar, and the people gathered outside the guesthouse were also getting more and more numerous. Some people were already eager to try, and soon someone would start attempting to break the formation, then triggering a leading effect.

Li Zhuiyuan handed a jade fragment to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi opened his mouth with a raw and hoarse voice: "Thank you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It should be, should thank."

Zhao Yi: "After entering the banquet, I will listen to your arrangements. I only need to survive this wave to save my life. I can help you strive for greater benefits."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Hmm."

Even brothers must settle accounts clearly, not to mention that they were still in a relationship of wanting to break each other's limbs.

This wave had a large scale. Just the number of people who died because of competing for the jade fragments was already many.

South of the Clouds, Li Zhuiyuan suspected that the place to go to attend the banquet was very likely one of the nine great secret realms.

The bigger the wind and waves, the bigger the return.

In Li Zhuiyuan's mind surfaced that black-robed zombie that appeared in A-Li's dream. It should have been waiting for a long time, right?

The cracks in the two jade fragments accelerated, and powdery substances constantly fell off.

Almost there.

At this time, at the competition place of the first jade fragment, that one from the Yu family should be fighting very vigorously, right?

And here, he was still in a calm state.

Being able to bluff for a while is a while. If he retains a bit more state here, after entering the banquet, he can have a bit more composure.

Someone is going to break the formation, and the others are also preparing to follow.

Li Zhuiyuan spread his palm, and the formation

Tan Wenbin took a step back and let out a whistle.

The two children obediently began to cry; his hair floated upward, his hands spread slightly toward his surroundings, and he stood on his tiptoes.

Combined with the sound effects, the eerie ghostly Qi, the pale face coated in powder, and the excessively vivid red lips, it really felt like a Ghost King had descended.

Runsheng, standing in the center, opened his Qi gates; not only did his entire aura swell, but it also brought with it gusts of wind that stirred the entire terrace.

Yin Meng scattered the least toxic powder, which Runsheng intentionally blew upward, as if releasing "purple dry ice."

Sun Yan and Xu Ming stood leaning against the railing; Sun Yan was unconscious and knew nothing.

Xu Ming turned his head with difficulty, looked at the woman beside him, then at the dead bird nearby, and his empty sleeve fluttered in the air.

Zhao Yi bit the tip of his tongue, forcibly squeezing out a bit more potential, and shouted:

"I've run with you for so long, I'm tired and I'm sick of it. Come on, let's have a real fight, blade to blade, and settle this properly!

With my ancestor Zhao Wuyang as my witness, I, Zhao Yi, swear here that I will fight to the death tonight, and I won't stop until I die!"

This oath was truly not made in error; he no longer had the strength or the conditions to run anymore.

Moreover, if the most critical situation occurred, the one surnamed Li could run, but he certainly wouldn't take him along when he did.

The effect of bluffing existed, but it couldn't last.

After all, the people present were not fools; everyone could see that pitch-black pillar of corpse Qi.

Fear was fear, but in the end, they still had to do what they had to do.

"Crack... crack... crack..."

The sound of the jade cracking was already clearly audible; at this rate, only a little while remained.

Even at its worst, his formation could certainly hold out until the jade underwent its complete transformation by concentrating all its defense.

As of now, the qualification for this first round could be considered completely secure.

However, if conflict could be avoided, it should be avoided; saving a little bit was better than nothing.

Li Zhuiyuan stepped forward and surveyed his surroundings.

This scene of being surrounded was very much like the encroaching white mist he had encountered in A Li's dreams in the past.

Admittedly, not everyone gathered here was someone of no consequence, but that didn't stop the youth from shifting the state he had been in there to here.

Even in bluffing, there were differences.

Li Zhuiyuan's voice, amplified by the formation's effect, rang out as he spoke loudly to the surroundings:

"The jade can be lost, but the ten people who strike first to break the formation will definitely be taken to the grave with you!"

For a moment, the scene went quiet.

However, they did not retreat, nor could they retreat.

But it would take some time to pass messages to each other and agree to strike simultaneously.

And that bit of time was enough.

"Pop!" "Pop!"

The two pieces of jade shattered completely, turning into a pile of powder, from which a wisp of yellow luster spilled out.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and grabbed it, as did Zhao Yi, who was sitting on the chair.

After the yellow light entered their hands, a mark appeared on both their palms simultaneously; this should be the banquet invitation in the true sense.

At the same time, the pillar of corpse Qi above their heads dissipated, the dark clouds above retreated, and the bright moonlight spilled down.

All around, sounds of regret, angry curses, and helplessness could be heard.

Everyone understood that the corpse Qi in the jade was a ruse; Jiang Shui had deliberately allowed everyone to fight and scramble here, but once this ruse was taken away, the original set of rules returned.

First, there was nothing left to fight over; second, killing wantonly now would incur karma; third, those who failed to obtain the jade had to consider the next wave that was urgently approaching.

One had to know that Zhao Yi had almost lost his life in the next wave because Li Zhuiyuan had eaten up the wave that was supposed to be his.

Some cursed and turned away, some offered congratulations before retreating, and most chose to leave quickly without a word.

A sudden start, a bloody and cruel process, and an absurd ending.

Looking at this scene, a fleeting sense of desolation rose in Li Zhuiyuan's heart.

After the lamp is lit and before you concede, your fate is actually no longer in your own hands; wherever Jiang Shui pushes you, you must go.

This is the true meaning of: "In the Jianghu, one is not master of one's own fate."

Unfortunately, this complex and high-level emotion that had finally appeared came and went quickly, and he hadn't even had time to savor it.

Li Zhuiyuan examined the mark on his palm, walked up to Zhao Yi, and said:

"That wasn't easy."

Zhao Yi's face twitched; he felt the youth was showing off to him, but it didn't look like it—the youth's exclamation seemed sincere.

However, this only made him feel more stifled and unbalanced!

Zhao Yi's complexion began to flush, and wisps of white smoke rose from his head; he looked very hot.

Li Zhuiyuan was terrified that he would be angered to death in his current state, which would waste a precious spot he had already obtained, so he could only say again:

"Alright, it wasn't easy for you."

Zhao Yi tilted his head, not knowing if it was because he had exhausted all his strength to reach this point or if he had been dealt another heavy blow by this extremely perfunctory comfort.

In any case, he passed out.

Lin Shu wiped the paint off his face, looked left and right, and asked, "Is it over? What do we do next?"

Runsheng:

"Eat the feast."

(End of chapter)