Deadlock

The golden snake crawled out of Immortal Master Jingzhen's mouth, biting a wriggling five-colored little bug. The multicolored bug struggled desperately. Though it had clearly left Jingzhen's body, it still seemed tightly connected to him, the pain making Jingzhen twist and writhe on the stretcher in exactly the same way as the bug struggled and squirmed.

Zhang Xiaojin thrust out two fingers together and chanted an incantation: "Clad in five-colored robes, known to men but unknown to itself; swiftly proclaim the precious decree, silently shed the rosy raiment..."

The bug let out a miserable shriek and turned into a small puddle. The convoy's leader was Bassarov of Hekou Town, and he was now also the commander of the Bay Giant Shield Crossbowmen Regiment.

At the nearby artillery firing range, Sixes found Minotaur Zhuang, who was training a new group of kobold musketeers.

Unless He Meimei, the richest woman in the southwest, was his biological mother—but this He Meimei seemed not to be married yet, and there had been no rumors of her having an illegitimate child.

The pool was over three zhang in diameter. Thick water mist drifted over its surface, while underground water vaguely surged up from within, making gurgling sounds.

Yu Youwei watched Li Sheng, wanting to see how he would handle it. Yet Li Sheng actually began looking around, his gaze not even lingering on the beaten child.

Though Yin Lan was not a cat forever fretting over gains and losses, after spending every day with an "alien," she had gradually come to understand Lu Yao's uniqueness and mysterious origins.

When those ministers who had sent off the bandits marching to war returned to their respective residences, they heard news of the emperor's summons.

Liu Pengfei's figure instantly became an afterimage. Gripping the Spirit Spear in his