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371. Love and Death

Ying Lin stood on her tiptoes, curious. Li Xiang sliced the blood off her sword and dashed to Hui’s side.

Chen Xigui held Ya Ai by her throat. He grew rapidly, while Ya Ai shriveled further...

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370. Runes and Qi

A spark of white light appeared at the end of the long, dark tunnel. Hui charged for it, reaching out. Come on! Just a little further!

A last rune rose up, larger than all the runes ...

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369. A Many-Faceted Battle

Across the room, Lu Xubo startled. He looked up at Li Xiang and Wang Xiu clashing. “Li Xiang—!”

Ying Lin grabbed him by his collar and held him in place. She frowned at him. “Li Xiang...

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368. Healing Strike

Chen Xigui led Ya Ai along, the two exchanging polite conversation and occasionally giggling at whatever they talked about. The guards glared at Hui and the others, all but cracking their knuckles....

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367. Manor of Living

“Let’s begin.”

“Not here. In my manor. Somewhere that’s safer, for both of us,” Chen Xigui replied.

Ya Ai stiffened. “Could you not do anything to me within your manor? I ...

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366. Honor Guard

A strange sect elder sat in Ya Ai’s room beside Ya Ai, not Hong Haitao but someone new. The two sat close together, conversing quietly. Ya Ai nodded, covering her smile with a sleeve, while the e...

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365. Arrival

The city loomed up before them. Hui swallowed, checking his stock of talismans again. He peeked at the city from the ship’s rail, then went through his talismans one more time. There, there, ...

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364. Love and Truth

Li Xiang nodded. She gestured as she explained. “I can’t afford to risk weakening myself with childbirth with the battle with All-Heavens on the horizon, but afterward, we can attempt reproduct...

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363. Considering

Hong Haitao and Ya Ai exchanged a look. Silent communication passed between them. Hong Haitao’s frown deepened, but Ya Ai shook her head. Hong Haitao lowered his eyes first.

Ya Ai straighte...

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362. The Case of Lu Xubo

Yellow petals blanketed the boat’s deck and rained down from the sky. Cultivators ran around, kicking up petals left and right. Lu Xubo glared imposingly down from on high. Petals poured out of h...

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361. Evidence Arrives

Ya Ai sighed. She shook her head. “It’s a stabilization technique. If I don’t do it every day, my condition deteriorates more rapidly. I know it looks… unconventional, but it’s entirely p...

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360. Midday Drama

Hui dusted off his robes and stepped out of the forge, his new bell tinkling at his hip. As he walked, he carefully wound his qi away from the bell, mindful not to accidentally feed the spell. ...

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359. Bell

Hui drew about half of the molten metal out of the small bucket all at once. His brows furrowed, and he focused. The metal swirled in midair, obeying his urges. He shaped the rough form of a bell a...

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358. Forging

Hui looked around the room, nodding to himself. Well, that’s an anvil… and that’s a forge, a furnace, right? That’s a bucket, and over there, uhm, a fan? Is that a rake? And a hammer! H...

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357. Beloved One

“We mean none of you any harm,” Hui pledged.

Li Xiang muttered something under her breath. Hui glanced at her. A little longer, just a little longer!

In any case, that ...

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356. The Plan

Hui fled at top speed, robes ragged and bloody. Li Xiang carried a pathetic Ying Lin behind him, all of them huddling together as they flew. Hui looked over his shoulder, then grit his teeth and ju...

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355. To Your Beloved

“Then, it’s decided,” Li Xiang said, standing.

What’s decided? When did we have a meeting? Wasn’t it just everyone somehow finding me intimidating for the first time in my life,...

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354. Seven Colors

Lu Xubo returned, but this time, five sword lights followed him in every color of the rainbow. He burst through her window in a flurry of flower petals. Five others materialized behind him, three w...

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353. Plan For A Wedding

“His beloved is arriving soon. We need to be prepared,” Li Xiang said. She led the way to a simple, clean house at the edge of town. Although nothing stood out about it except its cleanliness, ...

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352. Falsities

Li Xiang raised her hand and pointed.

Far in the distance stood another village, but so far that Hui couldn’t make out any of the details. He squinted, focusing on the village. Li Xiang...

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351. Reunion With Truth

Wang Xiu and Li Xiang battled back and forth. Both seemed familiar with the other, prepared for each other’s attacks and counterattacks. Although Wang Xiu had a stage on Li Xiang, Hui wouldn’t ...

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350. Set a Star(bound)

The uninjured cultivator laughed. “What a fool. To think, he dared to rush into our battle without the skill or power to back it up! Only death could await him before my might!”

“That...

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349. To Catch a Star(bound)

“Now, there’s an easy way and a hard way to find her,” Wang Xiu announced as they flew.

“Enlighten us, Elder Sister,” Hui said, bowing.

She glanced at him from the corner of h...

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348. Clone vs Clones

Night fell. Wang Xiu chose a broad, flat plains and dropped out of the sky, gesturing as she fell to catch her blade in her hand. She looked back up at the sky and gestured for Hui to come at her.<...

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347. A Short Disagreement

Hui put a hand on his chin. Hmm… but if he isn’t really twelve and that dark hallway isn’t his porn stash, then…

Well, it’s probably the prison, isn’t it? Or the tort...

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346. Incorrect

Taken off-guard, the City Lord blinked. “She’s Wang Xiu, the notorious outlaw. I need her exterminated before my beloved arrives next week.”

“There isn’t anyone else? Someone else y...

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345. To Find Her

Hui walked along the road, thoughtful. Li Xiang is hiding… well, it makes sense. All Heavens Sect should be after her as much as it’s after me. In that case, how will I find her? I’m good...

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344. Looking For A Friend

A chill flew down Hui’s spine. Glancing over his shoulder, Hui rubbed his neck. He saw nothing but the street behind him, full of ordinary cultivators going about their business. I feel like ...

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343. Journey to the West

Unable to focus enough to meditate or relax enough to sleep, Hui wandered around his house, pulling random things out of his node and stuffing them back. Spirit stones… gold… dried-up bits of h...

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342. A House For A Small Cultivator

Ying Lin spun around happily as they left the clothing store, all her master’s teasing forgotten. She wore a fine green-and-pink robe, the top pink and the bottom green, the two fading to white i...

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