Chapter 44: Xu Tanxi is splashed with water by her foster mother

A significant amount of water entered her eyes, and a sharp, stinging sensation instantly flooded her entire eye sockets, forcing Xu Tanxi to close her eyes shut.

The tea streamed down her cheeks, dripping onto the back of her hand. She was completely stunned, her mind a blank slate.

After a brief moment of silence, her rapid breathing finally steadied, and Xu Tanxi slowly opened her eyes.

Jiang Yilian wore a dark, worried expression, her tone laden with heavy reproach.

"Was it that eldest daughter of the Meng family who led you astray? I told you long ago not to spend all your time—"

This was a war of attrition over time, a contest of strength. Only by absorbing more ghostly energy could we achieve victory.

Three days ago, Lin Tao left the underground black-market fighting arena. As a form of relaxation, Luo Tian granted Lin Tao a few days off.

Seeing Lu Wei stop to observe, the vendor raised his head slightly and asked softly. Because a shattered magical treasure could no longer be repaired, the vendor directly referred to the fragments of the short saber as mere raw materials.

Later on, Pangu supported the newly separated heaven and earth; Pangu grew by one foot each day, and the liquid grew by one zhang. Along with Pangu's growth, the heaven and earth gradually separated.

These steps were identical to executing ordinary techniques. However, the subsequent actions were far more crucial. Previously, when the spiritual power bead absorbed ghostly energy, all the energy within the bead was concentrated together.

The four of them were just contemplating whether to go inside and take a look when they saw Qin Ting walking out from within. The four wanted to speak, but after catching a glance at Qin Ting's expression, they swallowed the words "eldest brother's wife" back down.

"Thank you, Senior Qiu, for bestowing upon me four Soul-奪 red threads all at once!" Lu Wei said with a malicious grin. With a fierce strike from his spiritual sense red thread, Qiu Yuandao's wandering soul instantly shattered, ultimately meeting the fate of complete annihilation.

With a dull thud, his skull split open like a watermelon cleaved by a knife, dividing vertically into two halves from the bridge of the nose, sending red and white matter flying in all directions.

Lu Wei maintained an impassive expression, putting on a pretense to play along. After brushing past them, he could not help but sneer inwardly. It seemed that the target for Liu Gui's Joyous Union Pill was most likely Ye Zi and Ling Yun'er. Never had he expected that two such shrewd and ruthless individuals would also fall prey to someone else's schemes.

Serving him, could this be considered taking the initiative? In any case, since she had taken the initiative to serve him, he surely wouldn't refuse.

Tai Shiwei wore a bewildered expression; any normal person would be nearly driven mad with joy upon acquiring an extra martial soul! How could anyone possibly resent having too many martial souls?

Having made up his mind, Li You immediately rose and left the garden, then entered a quiet chamber and began circulating the incantation of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts, refining his inner Qi over and over again until it became incomparably pure, far surpassing its former power in potency.

Only then did Lin Huiru heave a sigh of relief. As long as she hadn't done anything like snoring, grinding her teeth, passing gas, or talking in her sleep, it wasn't too humiliating.

This was the special characteristic of his martial soul—it could be forged in advance and preserved for a certain period of time.

At the same time, Wen Zhong, as a third-generation disciple of the Intercepting Teaching, was also one of the pivotal figures who triggered the great war between the Elucidating Teaching and the Intercepting Teaching.

Rou Huai truly had not expected that someone would break into her room bright and early in the morning, and a stranger at that.

Although the foreman at the construction site felt a bit regretful that he wouldn't be coming, he was equally delighted upon hearing that he had taken on an interior decoration job.

"Who are you?" The masked man looked at Yan Aohao, then glanced left and right, seemingly searching for an opportunity.

In the afternoon, Baili Qing had even come to her room, urging her to eat something, but she had no appetite whatsoever and simply climbed up onto the rooftop, overlooking the surrounding scenery from a lofty vantage point.

"Madam, this person borrowed a total of ten taels of silver, divided into twelve installments, but now only claims she cannot afford to repay it. This second person borrowed fifteen taels without any collateral, and hasn't repaid a single cent of the twenty-four installments either." Baizhu was driven to distraction by this.

"Hmph, you really think you're somebody." After the Heavenly Demon's Chaotic Dance dissipated, a sneer echoed from the shadows.

Although Li Xue'er could not be awakened at present, Ye Tian was not worried; Li Xue'er's soul was healing at every moment, and it was merely a matter of time.