Eighty-Four: Violet Smoke

At this moment, Qin Ziyan was no longer restless. Instead, she waited patiently beside the campfire.

She did not know when he would return.

But she was willing to wait for him.

Time passed slowly. The night grew deeper, the bitter wind howled, and the leaves rustled in the trees.

A shadowy figure crept quietly up to the fire.

Qin Ziyan opened her eyes warily.

In the darkness, she could not make out the newcomer’s face, but she could sense the person’s presence.

As the rhinoceros-horn beast was met head-on by a surge of sword force, razor-sharp and fierce, its massive body suddenly jolted and dropped sharply downward, evading the strike. Yet it had not expected Qin Yuan to have already predicted its movements; a blade of sword light had long been waiting there.

“Senior Li, we have very bad news for you. A colossal serpent of the fifth rank suddenly appeared at the gate,” Hua Xuanlin said helplessly. They wanted to run too, but the problem was that the monster that had suddenly emerged was covered in hard scales; when they hacked at it with swords, the recoil made their hands ache to the bone.

Under the moonlit night, he said no more. With a quiet smile, he slowly gazed at the blazing sun before him. A faint breeze passed by, billowing his long robe, yet his right arm had already been severed, lending him an air of loneliness.

“I do things without caring how other people feel. I’ll give you two choices: first, tell me honestly what the key to time and space is; second, help me test whether the realgar powder I just bought is any good!” Lin Haihai smiled as she watched Bai Zi’s face suddenly turn livid.

When Qin Yuan suddenly changed color, Ling’er hurried after him and stepped into that chaotic world together with him.

Beside them, the Golden Toad quickly cut in, “Yes, yes, we’ll go with Big Brother!” As he spoke, he glanced at the Fire Condensing Wind beside him, who remained expressionless.

Ye Luyun was a little moved. Then he suddenly thought of the dagger he had hidden away and said, “There’s a dagger in my boot shaft. Take it for self-defense.”

Qin Yuan reached Moonlit Night’s side, but he did not know how to save him. By then Moonlit Night’s consciousness had already grown hazy, and countless grievances had shattered his once-firm heart to pieces. In the boundless world before him, innumerable frightened eyes stared at him with resentment, as though demanding a life in payment.

The others exchanged looks, and Ding Dan praised, “Your luck is truly amazing. All of our brothers died at the hands of the demon vines and demon flowers. They were far too terrifying.”

Back then, even when everyone was eating instant noodles, the group would still have to buy the fat one an extra bowl, just to ensure that their team’s top laner could deliver the steadiness the match required.

The authority figure immediately took off his glasses, looking utterly bewildered. The general stared at him for a full minute before making a check mark on the dossier. Then it was the next person’s turn.

At this moment, Ye Tian was already standing outside Du Changsheng’s office in the Central China Division of the Esports Association.

Radiance flowed like water, pure and gentle. By its light, Luo Hao unexpectedly discovered that there were a few carvings on these water-like walls. They were all weapons and implements: a cauldron, a staff, a tower, a battle spear, a sword, and so on.

Of course, that was only wishful thinking. For ordinary people to come here would be nothing short of seeking death; the environment here was not suitable for human habitation at all.

This outcome filled him with excitement. Suddenly, he spotted a vast expanse of something ahead. At first it was unclear, but later he realized it was no ordinary object at all: it was a gigantic axe, and by rough estimate it was at least ten thousand zhang in size.

The principle was much like those shameless celebrities: even negative news could be used by them for endless hype, because no matter what, it could still raise their fame to some extent.

Wang Meng followed the direction of Liu Wen’s finger and only then noticed that Mu Qingqing, without him knowing when, had already fallen asleep on the sofa, her face full of exhaustion.

But now was not the time to feel guilty about that. What Gong Yan truly worried about were the practical difficulties he was about to face.