"Could this lady over here be Ms. Maria...?" Yula looked past Aoko Aozaki and spotted a familiar figure. His expression showed considerable surprise, but he quickly regained his composure. "I had heard that you were dead, but it seems the rumor was false."
"The rumor was true. I did indeed die once," Maria said. "But this outsider before you brought me back from the depths of nightmare, so I now work for her."
"I see... In the soul world, where the soul origin resided, strands of soul power were drawn out. The soul origin twisted, instinctively trying to reclaim the soul power that had been stripped away.
Xiao Qiang was secretly delighted. Even if Chen Lan's words were lies, they at least showed that Zhao Qingyan did not object to having dinner with him. In other words, she had not truly been angry with him.
They called him a big boss, said he was rich, but what was the result? He didn't even have as much money on him as a college student. What could be more utterly ironic than that?
As he spoke, a flash of bloody light flickered across Xie Yue's hand. The next moment, the blood mass was wrapped in the crimson glow and vanished into Xie Yue's mouth, swallowed by him. Having consumed it, Xie Yue did not dare relax in the slightest. He sat cross-legged in midair, apparently entering a cultivation state at that very moment.
But now, Chen Keyi could only play it by ear. She had little experience with this sort of thing, but she was still the top boss of Qingyun Group. She would not lose her composure so easily. She would simply do whatever Gao Longzang told her to do.
The path of cultivation was arduous and treacherous. To climb to