Volume 1, Chapter 25: The Mohist Automaton and the Eldest Princess of the Heavenly Phoenix

“You little brat, haven’t you been charged with rebellion? How are you still wandering around everywhere? Wasn’t Father Emperor supposed to have placed you under house arrest?”

Dressed in white robes and armor, Ye Luoheng said with a bright smile, her heroic bearing undiminished. With a flick of the silver spear in her hand, she pointed it at Gu Songzhi.

Everyone in the Half-Moon Palace was burning with impatience, but Old Fifth Mo did not so much as look back. He simply kept walking farther and farther away.

The moment these people drew near Jiang Yan, invisible fists and kicks sent them flying one after another. They crashed to the ground and fainted on the spot.

Dayang, however, was somewhat inferior. He was already exhausted and gasping angrily; clearly, his stamina was still far from sufficient.

In the days that followed, Huangfu Yuan sent Fu Yunsheng and the others to search for every rare treasure of heaven and earth that might help seal it.

From the moment You Yu heard the news, she had scarcely spoken. After sending Qin Yuyan away, she stared down below, lost in thought.

“A baby? I never considered that.” His parents, however, were pressing him hard, hoping he would marry and have children as soon as possible.

Jiang Xun reported to the factory leaders everything he had been doing recently, repeatedly assuring them that all the materials he used were factory scrap and therefore could not be considered an appropriation of collective property.

Originally, Yun Yao had thought that she left the Moon-Burning Forest on the thirteenth day and entered the Enlightenment Mountains.

Chu Ge immediately inspected the results and discovered that what had been extracted from the Dark Poison Boy was neither the Essence of Plant Poisoning nor the perfected hidden-weapon technique, Rain of Flying Daggers, but the perfected movement art, Crane-Leaping Skill.

Yet when they thought of everything that had happened over the past two days since Yun Yao’s return, they felt that this was not strange at all.

“Bang, bang, bang…” A sudden burst of gunfire made Zhou Lin halt. When he looked over, the soldiers stationed there were already hurrying to their posts. It seemed that something had changed inside, and they were all on full alert.

As they sped along, Ling Yun could see lights flickering on one after another in the buildings they passed. Clearly, the earth-shaking explosions had roused the sleeping residents.

Scientists had once said that, given sufficient conditions for survival, earthworms could actually grow enormous. In that light, the saying did have some truth to it. Life without restraint could develop into something truly terrifying.

“Farewell, brother…” Whenever they passed a construction site, the laborers would set out offerings and perform roadside rites for the dead. The funeral procession had no choice but to stop again and again, and Zhao Cheng would bow in salute together with the bereaved family.

Zhang Hao did not know that the reason the Death Emperor was behaving this way today was entirely because he feared the Endless Staff in Zhang Hao’s possession, as well as the holy aura radiating from the Ninefold World-Purifying Lotus emanating from his body.

“My lord, you’ve had too much to drink. You should rest.” After Zhao Cheng finished his string of rhyming remarks, the expressions of everyone in the hall changed repeatedly, leaving He Qufei rather embarrassed. Yet in this day and age, who could survive in officialdom without engaging in a little “chicken stealing and dog snatching”? He hurriedly tried to persuade him.

“No way! The self-defense force has been mobilized too? Isn’t that a bit excessive?” Wei Zi habitually rubbed his nose and stared at Old Black in disbelief.

“Set up an altar?” Captain Zhang’s words reminded Zhou Lin of something else. He had once studied the practice of establishing such altars, which were used to influence the fields and radio waves at a fixed location. Their principle was much like that of an echo altar, allowing sound waves to reverberate there instead of dispersing easily.

There were no insects, nor any traces of wild animals… And within this tranquil forest, four corpses hung just as silently from the towering canopy.

At the same time, the warriors of the other new tribes were not left idle. I sent most of them out to search for exceptionally tough timber to use in making bowstaves.