Ms. Bai stood in the air. The throne fell apart. Instantly, the bones and skulls just attached to her body. Some of them formed a jagged dragon body, some of them joined together and became the bone tail much longer than the body, and some grew out of the hair and turned into a beautiful chignon like a crown. Yet, most of the remaining bones were attached to the body and the four limbs like a suit of bone armor.
A pure black crescent and a pure white crescent were hanging above her shoulders. The two crescents drew a terminator in the middle of her enchanting face.
Now, Ms. Bai looked like the being in myth, which was somewhere between a beautiful woman and an ancient mythical creature.
“Hades...”
Ning Qinshui succeeded in putting together the fragments of his soul and looked up. Only by one glance, he couldn’t help kowtowing on his knees.
The other officials of hell all bowed together.
Ms. Bai didn
The huge pillar pierced through the sky and the earth, which was quite magnificent. When it collapsed, the scene was also very beautiful, as if in the glowing glass, countless flickering light strings suddenly split and exploded. The almost perfect images also crashed thereafter.The domino effect was enormous. Almost within an instant, the pillar toppled over slowly and hit the second pillar.The collision of the two pillars didn’t make any sound, except that the crushing of the images just took over the whole darkness like an explosion.At first, Ms. Bai thought her eyes deceived her. Not until the pillar inclined to a certain degree did she realize something was wrong. Her heart endowed with divinity was suddenly swayed so she shouted, “No!”The whole godly state of Fengdu was restless amidst her cry.The outcome of her effort over the past years just vanished into thin air within a short while.
Zhao Xiang’er lowered her head and puckered her lips for a while, saying grumpily, “I can walk myself. I don’t need your help... Hey, what are you doing?”Ning Changjiu bent down, put his hands over her hand gripping the sword and prised her fingers from the sword handle. Zhao Xiang’er said nothing. After she resisted a bit, her sword was snatched by him and placed back into the sheath.Zhao Xiang’er adjusted the scattered hair and clenched the slit clothes before her chest. Yet, her outfit was already tight. After it was torn apart, it was somewhat ripped open. Besides, Zhao Xiang’er was exhausted so it was quite painstaking for her to cover the exposed part.She bit the lower lip, her dark eyes shimmering with tears. She didn’t have extra spiritual power to ease the handprint on her face and could still feel the heavy pain in her left cheek, which greatly discredited her dignity. Moreover, this insensible man was standing before her, w
Ning Changjiu heaved a sigh and said, “Please ask then.”Zhao Xiang’er looked at him with a poker face, saying, “First, why were you sleeping with Ning Xiaoling on the ground? What did you do to her? Why did she wrap herself up with the quilt and seem afraid?”Ning Changjiu was stunned.The first question was already not easy for him.He answered with a question, “She felt cold so I wrapped her up with the quilt. Clearly, she was warm and happy. Why do you say she was afraid?”Zhao Xiang’er asked with a frown, “Why did you put your hands and feet on her?”“What?” Ning Changjiu only felt a headache and couldn’t think of anything. He said, “Last night, I took care of you and then passed out due to exhaustion. How can I know what happened?”Zhao Xiang’er didn’t question his answer, “Okay. You carried me back last night?”Ning Changjiu nodded his head.Zhao Xiang’e
The room was quiet again. Zhao Xiang’er was leaning against his chest. Seeing her pretty face, he felt a bit angry. He pulled her arms away from him, put her on the bed and pinched her face as punishment. Then, he tucked her in and ran out.Ning Xiaoling, lifting a hunk of beef, didn’t run far away. She was sitting on the stair with her chin rested on her hand sulkily.Ning Changjiu sat by her and took a glance at the beef, saying with a chuckle, “I didn’t know you had gone hunting.”Ning Xiaoling answered, “Yeah, neither did I expect that you were hunting in the room.”Ning Changjiu comforted her smilingly and explained the ins and outs of the matter to her. Ning Xiaoling listened to him suspiciously and stared at him with distrust.Ning Changjiu heaved a sigh and said, “You don’t even trust me?”Ning Xiaoling answered, “Yes, but Xiang’er is so pretty and you are in the green. I...”Ni
In the yard of the old house, it was messy on the snowfield. The crystalline snow was reflected by the moonlight just like the red grassland at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter.After dressing himself up in a suit of clean clothes, Ning Changjiu stood a few meters away from Zhao Xiang’er. Both of them were unarmed. They would fight bare-handed.Ning Xiaoling brought a chair over and sat under the eaves of the yard, watching over the red umbrella and the swords. She rubbed her hands and clasped them before her chest. She was no more disappointed about not being able to see them conduct joint cultivation. Instead, she was full of expectations upon seeing them confront each other.Ning Changjiu said with clasped hands, “Miss Zhao, no need to show mercy for me.”Zhao Xiang’er rubbed her wrists and couldn’t refrain from laughing when she heard that, “Rest assured.”She had long wanted to kick his ass.
Linhe City was enshrouded in the darkness all the time. In the bleak darkness, occasionally, Yellow Spring surged and caused the wind of aura, which blew above the city drily and gloomily, seeming to wash something. The scarlet moon seemed to have shone for thousands of years and the snow among the slots of the roofing tiles had formed piles of ice. The crystals within the ice reflected the moonlight and never melted in the cold world.In an old house, the door damaged by worms was pushed open and a crying boy ran out. He fell to the ground quickly, his face full of bloodstains. He wiped his face and there was still hard rice at the corners of his mouth.In the room, a woman slowly stuck out her head and wanted to call the boy back but she couldn’t make any sound. With her long hair scattered, she held a handful of yellow raw rice, her skeleton-like face buried in the long face. It was difficult to tell whether she was a human or a ghost.
After the boy called her “Madam”, the darkness seemed to be stagnant. It was quiet before the gate. After a while, Ning Changjiu coughed.He pretended to cough a few times to ease the embarrassing situation. He bent down to pat the boy’s head and said with a smile, “You are such a polite boy.”Zhao Xiang’er became sterner. She grabbed Ning Changjiu’s back neck and dragged him aside.The boy was not sure whether he had addressed her in a right way or not. Yet, this madam didn’t seem happy. She looked so fierce... Oh right, he should have called her “Your Ladyship”.The boy realized his mistake. Looking at the pretty girl’s cold face, he felt coldness in his limbs. He wanted to make up for his mistake but upon thinking that his mother had told him that he who talked much would err much, he was dithering over whether he should say it.Seeing the scene, the chatelain snorted inwardly. He thought that a kid was too i
In the yard, the two of them confronted each other. Zhao Xiang’er threw a peachwood sword at him. Ning Changjiu asked with a frown, “I only asked you to practice fist techniques with me.”Zhao Xiang’er asked, “You want to switch it to an iron one?”Ning Changjiu could only compromise, “What sword method are you going to practice today?”Zhao Xiang’er answered, “I don’t know sword moves. There is no sword method.”Ning Changjiu said, “You don’t need to have sword moves after you wield the sword for a long time, you will have your familiar moves. These moves are moves anyway.”Zhao Xiang’er thought for a while and said with a nod, “You’ve got a point indeed.”She agreed with Ning Changjiu but she didn’t slow down striking her sword. The peachwood sword swept across the dark frozen earth. As she leaped swiftly, she thrust at Ning Changjiu’s chest with the sword. Ning Changjiu parried the strike with a