Fellow Disciples Reunited
"Heavens above!"
"Earth below!"
"What a miserable life I have!"
"Casting a spell is this dangerous? How am I supposed to cooperate with it!"
Zhang Xuezhou's shouting in the morning light jolted the drowsy palace guards awake. One by one, they gathered around to watch the commotion.
The crown prince pulled aside the carriage curtain, then quickly let it fall again.
"Come, come, have a few pieces of beef and calm down!"
Sima Xiangru warmly beckoned Zhang Xuezhou over, acting as a mediator between him and Dong Zhongshu.
"I want three pieces!"
After howling for quite a while, Zhang Xuezhou saw that no one was offering compensation or cleaning up the mess. He could only shut his mouth in disappointment.
Things weren't too bad.
Compared with the many possibilities he had considered before, a shattered Spirit-Communicating Jade was an acceptable outcome.
Zhang Xuezhou lacked the ability to keep the Spirit-Communicating Jade in his possession, and it would have been difficult for him to bring it safely back to the holy land.
For him, methods that sought quick results might actually have been better.
There would inevitably be waste, but that was far better than losing his life.
What interested Zhang Xuezhou was that someone had actually forced his cultivation up to the Blood Penetration Realm.
The Law Power in his body was no longer confined to circulating within his acupoints, but had fused with his blood. This had undoubtedly given a tremendous boost to the power driving his spellcasting.
Each realm was a different heaven. There was a reason those at higher realms could beat down those at lower realms with a ninety percent chance of victory.
If he cast another spell, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the effect of his Law Power would surely be considerably stronger.
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