As agreed beforehand, Watcher Starry Night had the believers sort through everything Velsharoon had left behind, while he and the others entered the Pool of Radiance beneath the mage tower.
The ghoul and the Skeleton King were both flung back by the ring of light and slammed hard into the wall. The Skeleton King even smashed through several stone pillars, sending dust showering down all over his face.
"If I made people comfortable, I wouldn't be a murderer! Just bear with it. Can't you let a murderer like me finish the last stretch of my 'life'?" Yun Yeyao retorted with a hint of mischief, then immediately continued speaking. He was really getting into it now.
With the protection afforded by being a lower-tier Martial Arts family, doing business and the like became much easier. Business taxes were halved, taxes on local produce were halved, and others did not dare resort to excessive force-at least, they did not dare openly seize your property by force.
Yan Gang narrowed his eyes, with no intention of readying his bow and arrows. The Qingzhou Army's helmets and breastplates were over a fen thick, and they also wore iron face masks that left only an inch-wide opening for their eyes, greatly reducing the effectiveness of arrows.
"But I still have to work. Our bar doesn't seem to have any other bartenders, does it?" Alice said.
Yang Guozhong's residence was in Xuanyi Ward, also on an auspicious site in Chang'an. Newly built at the beginning of the year, it had cost two hundred thousand strings of cash. Just last month, Yang Guozhong had spent another hundred thousand strings preparing to receive Li Longji's visit. Of course, the emperor had bestowed the money on him, so he had not needed to pay out of his own pocket.