(Happy Lantern Festival, everyone!)
(Happy Lantern Festival, everyone!)
(A bowl of round, sweet rice dumplings for everyone, filled with happiness and joy, wrapped in lasting cheer, steeped in reunion, and slowly simmered over good fortune in a broth of auspicious blessings-all to offer you on this Lantern Festival. May every reader enjoy happiness and good health throughout their life!)
"Pah! What rotten luck!" Once Ma Weiqi saw clearly what was inside the chamber, he spat and cursed.
The chamber was bathed in a crimson glow. Its ceiling stood thirty or forty feet high, only a little higher than the door, and its length and width were about the same. The source of the red light was a huge furnace right in the center of the chamber, with a stone bed on either side and nothing else. Judging by its appearance, this was clearly a chamber dedicated to artifact refining. No wonder Ma Weiqi was so disappointed.
"Senior Brother Ma!" Li Xiaoya's shout suddenly came from afar. He called excitedly, "Hurry over! We found a Teleportation Formation that leads out! Come on!"
"All right, I'm coming!" Ma Weiqi hastily replied. With that, he moved to dash toward Li Xiaoya.
"Haha! That's right, Senior Brother Ma! Once we divide up everything, let's leave!" Li Xiangxiang's excited voice came from afar as well.
Wait! At those words, Ma Weiqi's heart suddenly lurched. All the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures they had gathered on Ancient Demon Mountain were still in his Storage Pouch. He stopped in his tracks, wavering.
"What's wrong? Hurry over, Senior Brother Ma!" Dong Gu Nü's voice drifted over from the distance, sounding somewhat impatient.
"Hmph! Li Xiaoya, your day of reckoning has come!" Ma Weiqi suddenly snorted and muttered. His expression grew frighteningly dark, his eyes brimming with fierce killing