Chapter 49: The Corpse of Jian Tang

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Chen Bozhou pressed one hand against his lips, unable to suppress a fit of coughing.

He looked so frail, as if he were about to cough up his lungs.

Lately, the frequency of his headaches had only increased.

Hearing the commotion outside the door, Jian Tang recognized it as Chen Bozhou's voice almost instantly.

Her spine stiffened abruptly, and she relaxed her resistance against Shen Suinian, allowing him to easily conquer her territory.

Shen Suinian's slender eyes narrowed. Amidst their entangling breaths, he murmured, his thin lips delivering a light, butterfly-kiss-like brush with every word he spoke: "You could tell just like that?"

Indeed, a first love is truly unforgettable.

With that, the young master bit down on her lips in displeasure.

This time, he showed not a shred of mercy...

If the past had once been excessively beautiful, then those bygone days were nothing more than a curse.

To Jian Tang, Chen Bozhou was the romance of all her youth's memories, as well as the verdict passed after the disillusionment of a fairy tale.

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Watching Jian Tang unconsciously murmur another man's name, Shen Suinian lowered his gaze, his dark eyes brooding as his thin lips pressed down onto her delicate lips, invading and plundering every sound she made.

As their teeth and lips became intimately entangled, the moment Jian Tang opened her eyes wide in shock, it shifted into a fierce, bloody bite.

"What is going on? Could it be that nothing was discovered? Did you not see the deity? Or perhaps..." the priest asked anxiously, the feelings of worry, disappointment, and panic evident in every word.

"Hmph! I don't have time to play bureaucratic games. We better work hard and help each other out, otherwise, all of you fucking stay here!" the policeman spoke up impatiently.

"Th-this... running on like this... isn't a solution either... ugh!" Firefly retrieved her last bottle of stamina recovery potion. Running continuously like this didn't just drain her physical strength severely; it was becoming almost too much for her mental endurance as well.

The forces of the Koga ninja clan launched a fierce assault on the southern side of the Iga, striving to buy more time for the Dragon Key and the Mochizuki Sword Ninja.

"What is it?" Ye Hua had no choice but to stop. If she didn't stop, who knew if the other person would lunge forward with a sword?

After taking a few hurried steps away, Li Longfei did not actually leave. Instead, he quietly slipped back to the exterior of Princess Taiping's bedchamber, hid in the dark shadows, and used his supernatural psychic abilities to secretly eavesdrop on the movements inside the room.

"I am definitely not mistaken, you had better obediently come with this humble daoist!" Master Needle Zhang said as he reached out to grab Li Longfei.

"It's all that Chaka Todo. She's so annoying every single day. I don't even know how I offended her, but she always treats me like this," Mi Bai complained to Gu Xiaotong.

"No, the few of us simply cannot escape this illusion array. If we don't eliminate this monster, unless we die and respawn back in the city, absolutely no one can get out!" Ye Hua rejected Huang Ming's suggestion outright.

In the Shadow Forest, upon graduation, trainees could be assigned by the academy to various future paths based on their potential. Those with superior conditions and good luck could remain at the academy for further advanced study. Those with average performance would be dispatched to mortal realms to handle trivial secular affairs.

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Under the escort of the gray-robed wizard, Lin Wei and the others were assigned according to their strength into different rooms enclosed by fences.

Mage-tanks could also be considered a branch among mages. Prior to reaching the Earth Spirit realm, a mage-tank could almost be regarded as the most formidable type of mage.

Yet, at a table in the corner of the hall, two individuals were still eating and drinking as if no one else were around, their expressions entirely indifferent. It was as though they had neither seen nor heard what the youth was pleading for, completely unconcerned with the matter at hand.

The Hell Duke before him looked up at Locke from a half-kneeling position, just as it was about to speak. In that very instant, Locke clearly saw its entire body wrapped in stone once more—sealed away.

He stared at her, his right hand suddenly shooting out to tightly grip her wrist. He held on with such force that it caused her sharp pain.

One must know, Sun Yan setting up empty carriages right in the middle of the street and waiting for various noble families to deliver grain was far too aggressive of a stance. Coupled with the fact that these families were also facing grain shortages, for a time they simply watched one another, yet not a single household took the initiative to deliver food.

Su Youqing glanced sideways out of the corner of her eye at the tense figure of Jiang Chengce, then flipping casually through the menu, the dishes she ordered eerily matched, item for item, the exact dishes Jiang Chengce had mentioned to Mu Manni at the airport. Hearing this made Jiang Chengce feel as though he were sitting on pins and needles, and he even broke out in a cold sweat once again.

Chen Rong was slightly startled, and involuntarily she began to ponder: Could it be that he knows all about my meeting with Ran Min, and what words passed between us?

The moment Xinghe started talking about the grievances and entanglements between himself and Xingyun, he simply could not stop. Saliva flew everywhere from his mouth, and the more he spoke, the angrier he grew, until finally he ended up jumping about and cursing Xingyun out completely.