Volume 1, Chapter 39: Let Us Adopt a Child

I replied, "All right."

By the time Shen Yixiao arrived, it was pitch black. He looked flustered, and his first move was to ask if I had changed the dressing.

Mount Huqi, once a place of towering peaks and lush greenery, had been reduced to a flat expanse. To call it a plain would be inaccurate, though, as a massive, dark, and bottomless abyss yawned in the center of the wasteland.

Jiayu had a premonition that whether or not he could slay this alpha ape monster would become the pivotal moment in his mission to change the fate of humanity.

Yan Yan often wondered: if she had known on the very first day she met Shen Xi—the second day of her arrival at the University of Melbourne—that Shen Xi was a lesbian, would they have still become close friends?

After all, the Ice Dragon was the guardian of the Ice City's heritage; for tens of thousands of years, it had served the city faithfully, if not always with glory, then certainly with toil.

A piercing bird cry rang out, and the surrounding space suddenly shifted, transporting them back to the original world.

Silver bells chimed melodiously, as if echoing across time and space, when she appeared before the crowd in a red, phoenix-embroidered cheongsam, exuding a bewitching charm.

"I just don't know where to go, what to eat, what to drink, or what to do, so I'm bored," Jiao Zhifei answered honestly.

Somewhat displeased, she shot a fierce glare at the Jinx, picked up her glass, and gulped down the juice in one go.

At this moment, Tiancheng Polytechnic University had only three starters left on the court. Although their stamina was running low, they still had two substitutes—Geng Haoshi and Chen Yu—who were relatively fresh.

With a signal transmission rate of several hundred terabytes per second, only an Evolver could withstand the surge; for an ordinary person, the only consequence of touching it would be for their brain to explode.

A flicker of anger crossed Zhou Huahan's face. Although Xu Huadong was trying to smooth things over, the mockery in his words was plain for all to hear.

The energy was like a spring compressed to its limit, suddenly rebounding to unleash a massive shockwave. The force of the impact instantly vaporized every living thing within a dozen yards of Han Xiao and Zhao Wuwei. Countless translucent, water-like ripples shimmered in the void.

Having been back in the country for barely half a year, the thought of leaving her homeland again for abroad filled Shen Wanbai with melancholy.

The dinner was simple, yet it was filled with warmth, and the atmosphere between them was exceptionally harmonious.

"Just wait, it will surprise you even more once it's ready to eat later," Song Lingxue said with a mysterious smile. She instructed Mrs. Liu to place the two wooden buckets in a cool corner against the wall, add some cold water from the vat, and chill the two basins of black jelly. It was a pity there were no refrigerators here, or she could have made shaved ice.

On the other side, Zhou Tongwang and Xu Hai led the dozens of cultivators who had luckily survived into the forest, though they traveled in a different direction than Qian Bin—one to the south and one to the north, far apart from each other.

Song Lingxue woke up before dawn the next day. She was surprised that she had fallen asleep without any pressure, sleeping soundly through the night without a single dream.

But as far as he knew, there was no one in Feifeng County with a cultivation level above the Golden Core stage. Aside from his late idol, Master Qinghua, he truly couldn't think of anyone capable of such a feat.

Fine, it was like playing the lute to a cow. Mi Wugu finally realized that even if he explained the cultivation realms in detail, this old woman would still find a way to make it sound incomprehensible.

Under Meng You's persistent questioning, Meng Ke dutifully strangled the excitement in his heart before it could take root.

Christmas was approaching, but the Rockets had to play a Christmas Day game against the Lakers, requiring them to travel to Los Angeles for an away match.