Trading Water for Crystal Cores

The wind rose and the clouds surged; rocks tumbled and rolled with a deafening roar.

Tens of thousands of tons of riverbed soil poured down like a flood of mountains and seas, and the hurricane smoothed over the hollows between the ranges.

Only after three full days of hard labor was the immense undertaking completed.

Between the boundless mountains, one saw only rises and no dips, like a fortress built of hills and forests, astounding all manner of beasts.

Squirrels, white-spot deer, foxes, and the other small creatures huddled together, staring at the newly raised ground.

A wave of energy, thousands of zhang high, burst forth and shot straight toward the Dark Ancestral Lord. In his haste, the Dark Ancestral Lord could only throw up all his strength to withstand it.

"And you too, down you go," Ming Yanwei said, seizing Baggins, who was hiding beside Yang Xin, and hurling him into the lake.

Fu Yanhan laughed at her teasing, agreed with a smile, then got up from this side and lay down on the other.

She had the habit of keeping her phone on silent, and usually did not even turn on vibration, so whether she answered calls or not was entirely a matter of luck.

Yang Xin spared no one, not even that treacherous Mizuki, and in a fit of utter madness he even brought Kakashi, Nohara Rin, and Uchiha Obito under his own command.

Now you see how important I am, don’t you? The things you can think of, I started preparing for long ago.

Once he had made up his mind, he packed his belongings and set off without the slightest hesitation toward the Savage Bull Mountains.

It is no exaggeration to say that if spiritual power truly caused changes in the physical constants, it could very well mean the collapse of the entire universe, or even bring about a new cosmic explosion or a complete reboot.

Qinglian pouted. "Ruoxi, you two are really a perfect pair. The princess sends her love, and the maid works herself to death!" With that, she stormed out again in a huff.

She poured herself a glass of red wine, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and gazed at the countless lights outside, drinking it down in gulp after gulp as though it cost nothing.

"Still, these jade spirit peaches are truly delicious," Qin Fan said, licking his lips. "They leave a fragrance on the tongue and an aftertaste that lingers endlessly."

"Understood, understood. Not a single word can be changed. But beneath heaven, can this 'reason' at least be written a little differently?"

A mansion with five courtyards and five gates was not all that different in scale from the residences of princes seen on television. A place like that, if put in later times, would cost no less than two billion to buy—perhaps even more.

More than two hundred photographs, beginning in the airplane cabin and continuing by car all the way to the grasslands here: photos of her sleeping, photos of her dozing off... Most of all, though, there were pictures of her on the grasslands, along with candid shots taken during their play.

Qian Yi took out a silver needle and pricked the child at the philtrum, the Bubbling Spring point, the Crook at the Pool point, and the Lesser Merchant point, squeezing out a few drops of blood. The blood was black as ink and stank like rotten salted fish. Qian Yi leaned in to smell it, then kneaded several points on the child’s back in turn. To everyone’s surprise, the child gradually quieted and slowly fell asleep.

While Sima Yi was away from Hu Zhao’s academy, Zhou Sheng gathered several burly thugs and lay in wait along the route Sima Yi was sure to take, intending to ambush and kill him. Hu Zhao had always valued Sima Yi highly, even regarding him as the heir to his own legacy.

It would be best if Hu Zhun’s Shan’er could eat Rui Xiang alive, sparing her the annoyance of his constant lingering before her eyes.

Yue Qize woke to consciousness. Scenes like this played out several times a day, and each time the pain was magnified tenfold, stabbing deep into his very bones.

Xiao Nan, however, bought a finely crafted jade box and placed the pearl he had just purchased inside it.

What she wanted was far away, beyond the reach of anything she would ever touch in Jingkou Village. So the moment she grew old enough to understand, she began dreaming of going somewhere bigger, and after much choosing, she entered the He residence.

"Divine warding!" the foreign man shouted coldly. Countless orange lights burst from his body, and all at once the ground surged with waves of earth. A colossal wall several hundred zhang high rose in an instant, separating Lin Mo from him as though they had been divided into two different realms.

The boss he followed was no lesser figure than Brother Qiang. For him to strike him in front of so many people was simply going too far.