Chapter 257: Going Up the Mountain

Before long, Duan Zhengming arrived, and a banquet was held. They drank and chatted until the moon rose above the willow tips.

After the feast dispersed, Zhao Ti called Duan Zhengchun aside to a quiet place and told him the whole story of how Ah Zi had grown up in the Star Sect since childhood, developing her vicious temperament.

Duan Zhengchun considered and said, "Your Highness may rest assured. Since she is my daughter with Star Bamboo, I will certainly discipline her properly and not let her repeat the same mistakes or do anything wicked."

Zhao Ti looked at him for a moment: "The Zhennan King had best keep this firmly in mind."

After pondering for a while but still unable to make head or tail of it, Tian Xuanzi gazed in the direction where the other had vanished, then looked again toward Juyong Town, sighed softly, and said, "It was perhaps better had we never met. Perhaps one day..." Having spoken, he looked once more toward Juyong Town, then vanished using the Shrinking Earth to Inches Cultivation Technique.

Moreover, after the Great Song Dynasty crossed south, the state's finances had reached the brink of bankruptcy, and it could barely issue full salaries. In his first month in Lin'an, he received only one dou of rice, half a chi of cloth, and a single shoe.

It was also after thinking through all this that Courtingtree finally understood why the Qixi Blue Bird had been able to master the Fire of Life — it was truly a fortunate coincidence.

"Mother, my jewelry is gone!" In her panic, she didn't even bother putting on airs and calling her Mother; instead, she used the old familiar form of address.

The broadsword bit straight into the White Walker's arm, sinking several centimeters deep, but still failed to sever it. At that moment Mance couldn't pull it free yet refused to let go. Seeing the White Walker swing its hammer down, Li Lingyi hurriedly abandoned the attack, spun the spear tip, deflected the chain hammer, and immediately yanked Mance back behind him.

Fortunately, Li Mu had previously returned the C. A. T. unit to that group of invaders, so Li Mu once again summoned Saber and had her bring the thing along.

The words were Fuman's, and Yang Yi glanced at him in surprise — damn, the guy hadn't even been able to protect Yang Yi and Grett, and had ended up looking like a pig's head himself; where did he get the nerve to talk about protecting everyone?

As for battle, although the Cotton Bird had only just been born and felt a bit resentful, its bloodline was still brimming with some combative genes, so when it heard this novel term "battle," it was extremely curious.

After entering the game's main quest settings, Li Lingyi found that Kayaba Akihiko was quite straightforward — he said one hundred floors, so there were one hundred floors, with BOSSes on every one. But Li Lingyi found it too troublesome, so he simply compressed all the floors away, leaving only the final one.

Early in the morning, as thin mists drifted and wove among the verdant pines and cypresses of the courtyard, before long a few skylights alighted on the branches, chirping away as if welcoming the rising red sun.

Moreover, with a movement Lota couldn't see clearly, she curled her tail into a ball and tied it into a knot. Using this to protect the vulnerable parts of her body, she slowly retreated, watching Lota while trembling.

"Then just marry her, then. There's no rule that says humans and demons can't be joined. Back then a single pearl made your family rich and prosperous — wouldn't marrying her now be a good thing?" Du Zihuan said, puzzled.

"Life is the greatest miracle in the world." The Mastiff King sighed at this. Even with her own power, she could not glimpse the mysteries of the Blood-Devouring Demonic Physique — she was blocked.

This was the biggest matter of all, after all... after all, the other side possessed technology and strength far surpassing yours; wiping you out would be the work of a moment.

The armor stood over two and a half meters tall, with a perfectly rounded head and no visible seams. Apart from the eyes, which were fitted with slender, black, semi-transparent material that occasionally flashed red, the entire face had no superfluous decoration at all — not even the normal openings for a breathing apparatus.

Dainier answered with a smile, then returned to her seat and paid no more attention to those around her. Lowering her head, she teased Lota with her fingers, scratching under his chin.

From being "brothers" with Lan Ziyou to becoming husband and wife — perhaps the love was naive, but those few months were so deeply etched into the bones. And now from husband and wife back to brothers — it's not something one can simply let go of just because one says so. Never before had her heart been so "in turmoil."