Chapter 61: The Marriage Alliance

When Jiang Ning and his entourage hurried to the imperial palace, it was already late at night.

At this moment, the Palace of Earthly Tranquility, where the Emperor resided, was brightly lit...

Looking at the imperial physicians walking back and forth in a flurry, Jiang Ning asked, "How is His Majesty's condition?"

Nurse Liu sighed, her face filled with worry.

...

"Miao, I think there are some things we need to discuss." Lan Shi closely followed Miao Cuihua's footsteps, a cold sneer already playing on his lips.

Everyone burst into laughter. As the most mysterious figure in the Jizhou Militia, Xu Meng had a very busy job; due to security requirements, he rarely went out freely even during his rest time.

"Brother Lin Fan, what are you looking at? Are you looking at me?" Qi Mei's soft voice drifted over once again.

Immediately after, Zhu Wu announced the commencement of the funeral. The crouching-bull cannons roared in salute, followed by an escort of cavalry and three horse-drawn carriages slowly carrying the cenotaphs of the three fallen soldiers.

"Those two were merely following orders yesterday. Pang Wanchun, arrange some men to clear the battlefield in the woods," Chao Gai instructed.

The information they requested was purportedly for a vital project—a project so massive that it could shake the very foundations of a medium-sized nation.

The old man spoke in a cold and detached manner, using a tone as if he were addressing domestic servants. This left Zhu Muyan, the other companion, and Xia Chaoyun—none of whom knew Lin Jing—feeling quite perplexed.

The enemy emerged completely unscathed, while their own side suffered heavy casualties. As the distance between the two sides closed, these ambushers, who only knew how to brawl, feud, and throw their weight around, predictably began to crack under pressure. Yet, they could not entirely be blamed for their incompetence; after all, the disparity in strength was too vast, and this was by no means a fair fight.

Yet Cheng Shanhua was being insincere; she hugged Zhong Tianyi tightly, refusing to let go, her tender hands slipping past his clothes at some point to touch the iron-like skin of his back, while hurried breaths escaped from Zhong Tianyi's mouth.

After a rough tally, there were fifty chests of silver and two chests of gold, all cast into large ingots of fifty taels each. A quick calculation revealed a total of sixty thousand taels of silver and two thousand taels of gold, making for a truly lucrative harvest.

They watched as the gunman who had previously kept his weapon aimed at Zheng Ke suddenly raised his pistol and pulled the trigger at Lilith.

I could not help but feel a chill in my heart. Seizing the moment while the creature struggled to wrench itself free from the wall, I raised my handgun and unleashed a barrage of gunfire upon it.

Hearing this, I frowned. Surviving for a year and a half relying solely on weeds and roots?

The moment the Demon Puppet appeared, the expressions of the three Heavenly Kings changed drastically, assuming that Fang Lin was ready to resort to violence at the slightest disagreement.

If no one is willing to be honest and everyone continues to deceive one another, what meaning remains in the relationships between people?

With their final ban on the red side, Griffin removed Kaisa. Currently, both the top and middle laners for SKT were diving champions; if they were to pick Kaisa to fly in alongside them, the opposing carries would find it nearly impossible to survive.

How could the soul-devouring grass, which hungers to devour anyone, completely ignore a living human? What kind of power was helping Mo Shang?

After listening to the carriage driver's explanation, Duan Jiu felt as though everything was within expectation, yet he still sensed numerous lingering doubts. He knew deeply that this entire campaign must have been orchestrated by someone else, and the outcome was precisely what that person desired—or rather, even the final result had been predetermined by him.

A sound suddenly echoed from the cave. Listening closely, Zhang Quan and the others could identify it as the breathing of a snake. Judging by the resonance of the noise, it had to be a massive serpent—needless to say, the Vampire Snake King had emerged.

"Why are you here?" Shui Shiyun's face was flushed red, as she never expected Fang Wei to return to the school.