Because she hadn't slept at all the night before and hadn't returned until morning, and because the noisy Huashan disciples who usually filled the house had all gone with Yue Buqun to attend the martial arts tournament, leaving the garden unusually quiet, Annie had slept wonderfully. She'd slept from the hour of the Dragon in the morning until the end of the hour of the Monkey, and only woke when it was nearly the hour of the Rooster and getting dark.
Though she was somewhat dissatisfied with having slept a mere five shichen, she could still have slept a while longer. But when she heard faint commotion coming from the flower hall in front of the garden, she figured that the idiot Yue Lingshan and Uncle Yue had returned from the tournament. After thinking it over, she reluctantly climbed out of bed.
"Ahh..."
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"Mmm..."
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She stretched, rubbed her eyes, and, while no one was around, cast Scourgify on herself and instantly changed into a sky-blue dress. She almost forgot Tibbers, who was lying in the corner of the bed, but then casually hooked him onto the back of her dress and bounced toward the flower hall to see whether Uncle Yue had gotten anywhere at the tournament.
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Ever since she'd heard the principles behind the Life-and-Death Talisman from Xin Zhuiqing and brought it back into the world, Annie the Great Immortal had spent the past two days—especially last night—putting in a tremendous amount of effort to have fun with... I mean, to happily bring more than a hundred sect leaders under her control.
With the support of all those sect leaders, if Uncle Yue and the others still couldn't deal with that Zuo Lengchan and win him the position of martial arts alliance leader, they'd be