Chapter Twenty-Four: The Scene of Death

Friday afternoon at three o’clock, the rain that had stretched on for days finally came to an end.

The sky cleared, and golden sunlight bathed the earth. All things and all living beings seemed to come alive again.

After leaving Yuan Yi’s home, Yin Nian and Yuan Yin went their separate ways.

Yuan Yin went to see her third younger brother, while Yin Nian went to the police station.

A young police officer received Yin Nian. He was the one handling the early investigation into Yuan Yi’s case.

But when Yin Nian told him about the clue from the call records, the officer said they had already checked the records. It was the same number Yin Nian had found, and they had already traced that number to its owner. Yet that person insisted he had never used it.

“How could this be...”

I quickly stepped back and looked more closely, only to feel my body slowly stiffen, a bone-deep chill seeping into me inch by inch.

At that moment, in the main hall of Ten Thousand Swords Gate, Luo Yunmiao had just dozed off for a while. When he woke and glanced at the sky, he was about to go pick up Lu Li, when a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Qin Hui’s first palm strike landed on the light curtain. It was then absorbed, and through a resonance-like effect, the force of the blow was multiplied countless times and hurled back at Qin Hui.

Ye Shuangshuang relied on instinct to dodge to the right, then kicked at the man’s waist.

Just as Ye Shuangshuang was considering whether to hire a few more employees for the travel agency, two familiar faces walked in through the door.

The commotion naturally alerted the other two who were still deep in thought. Kai Yin and Luna exchanged a glance and looked toward Liu Bang, only to see him take two steps forward, then stop, and start clawing at a slightly raised mound of earth. To their astonishment, he actually dug out the upper half of a living man.

I broke out in a cold sweat, trembling all over, wondering where on earth I would run if he really rose from the dead.

This imprint of life, born from nothing, was unlike the way ordinary saints and great emperors could summon a thought to make heaven’s laws respond and create living beings.

Yuan Chu took out a black stone ring. It had been taken from the phoenix after its defeat. Back then, the phoenix had used it to create a fog and seal off an entire city, allowing people in but never out.

Of course, those “supreme gods” were self-styled. In Bai Yijian’s eyes, they were nothing more than nine peak main gods, rule-born beings with combat strength comparable to an early-stage Great Luo.

As they spoke, someone could no longer hold back their sorrow and burst into tears first. Then came a second, then a third. In the end, the original singing and laughter were gone, and Vanessa had no choice but to end the bonfire party early.

Though the Central Asian man was terrified, he still rushed forward, hoping to save the brown-haired white man. He had already realized that this mission to abduct Ling Yunfeng was surely a failure. The best outcome now was simply to live and make it back to the United States.

Though it seemed like kindness, it was in fact humiliation. Bai Shaohao did not refuse, but went along with him to Wind and Cloud Tower. If he refused to go, it would truly look as though he were fleeing with his tail between his legs.

Gu Ning led the others out of Nameless Cave. Once no one remained inside, he drew a deep breath, and in an instant Nameless Cave became a sea of fire. Before long, the cave mouth could no longer be distinguished, and once the wind and sand swept past, what difference was there at all from any other dune?

Linghu Su swept his gaze to both sides and happened to meet Gu Qianhu’s smiling face. He seemed entirely certain that Linghu Su would choose him. And indeed, since he was going to offend someone no matter what, he might as well choose Gu Qianhu; besides, Linghu Su himself did not like An Hong.

Reynolds thumped his chest and said, “Of course. Otherwise I wouldn’t dare recommend it to you, Mr. Liander. It’s a family secret recipe, so it has never been passed on to outsiders. If our family had not fallen on hard times during the war and I had not ended up in Akarin, I would never have brought it out to earn my living. Alas...” He even let out a long, practiced sigh.

Seeing that Su Hongmu was clearly not moving an inch, the old man said no more. The fury in his heart made him want nothing more than to pull back his hands at once and slaughter everyone in the tent, but even so, though he might have eased the hatred in his heart, he forced himself to endure it.