Trafford Buyers Club

Chapter 2643
Tantai Anping knew that his life was hanging by a thread, if he was not careful, the supremely sharp Nuo Gong sword would pierce his head.

She is a woman, so she knows how terrifying it can be for a woman to go crazy.

"Instead of asking me what I did..." Tantai said calmly, "It's better to ask yourself, what did you do... At least, after my operation, everyone can survive."

It was quiet behind him...but the breath of death has not weakened much, and the Nuo Gong sword is still pressing against the back of Tantai Great Immortal's head.

"You are at the end of the crossbow, and Lin Feng obviously can't fight right now, how many times can you expect him to open and explode?" Tantai calmly said again: "Do you know why a person can escape from death? That is because He is consuming his own blessings greatly... The current Lin Feng's blessings are almost negative, if he continues to overdraw like this, even if he dies here immediately, he won't be able to make it, are you really going to drive him out of his wits?"

"He is Duke Nuo. In this world, how can his profound blessings be beyond the imagination of ordinary people?"

"Then what about those guys?" Tantai turned around suddenly, "What about those corpses buried in the deep pits of the ice cave? Are they also blessed? Are they not [Nuo Gong]?" ?”

"How do you know..."

Tantai Jingjing interrupted Linger's next words with a wave of his hand, and said directly: "At least now, no matter what, Hu Mei won't... At least she is reluctant to hurt Lin Feng. However, if he is not the real [Nuo Gong], then he will not It's easy to say."

The Nuo Gong sword naturally hung down, and Ling'er's face became even paler.

As the saying goes, go all out and rest... Obviously she is in a state of decline at this time, and it is quite bad.

Tan Taiping calmly threw out a bottle at this time, "Take some, although I don't know if these rejuvenation medicines will work for you, it's better than nothing. To deal with Hu Mei, I'd rather run away road."

"But you..." Ling'er frowned, and glanced at the weird disc in Tantai's hand.

Her intuition told her that Hu Mei's sudden change was precisely because of Yuanpan's secret actions... She had an instinctive feeling of dread.

"This thing can't hit people." Tantai said calmly and indifferently: "In my hands, at most it can be used to get beaten, and if I don't do it well, I will be killed by the backlash."

Having said that, this [Book of Heaven] is indeed a heaven-defying auxiliary magic...it is so heaven-defying that it can even rewrite the trajectory of a person's life.

Even so, her casual touch on Hu Mei's life trajectory almost killed her—but the effect of losing weight unexpectedly made Immortal Tantai ecstatic.

However, in a short period of time, Immortal Tantai may not be able to carry out similar operations... The cost is too high.

At this time, Ling'er did not swallow Tantai's wound medicine, but threw it back casually, shook her head and said: "This thing is useless to me."

As she spoke, Ling'er took out the bell she was wearing next to her body and unscrewed it directly. It seemed that there was something hidden in the bell.

"This is..." Tantai Pingping's eyes were startled at this moment, and he couldn't help showing disbelief, "So... so?"

Ling'er sighed and said, "This is already the last."

Seeing that Immortal Tantai was pondering for a while at this moment, he took out a box from the storage items, "I also have some of these things, so I'll give them to you."

Ling'er was startled.

Tantai said calmly and indifferently: "When you owe me a favor, don't think that you won't have to exchange it if you die... I'm a fortune teller, if you don't pay it back, I'll look for your next life, the next life."

"You're not bad." Ling'er chuckled, "Fortune teller, can you find him, Mr. Nuo... No, Lin Feng."

"We can only rely on it." Tantai heaved a sigh of relief, and then solemnly took out a rotten branch that seemed to be bitten by termites...

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As if... as if returning to that resplendent and resplendent room.

It's just that there are not so many graceful maids this time, but the beautiful and graceful queen is here - Hu Mei.

Xiao Lin SIR didn't dare to move at this moment, didn't dare to move at all, even though this woman who seemed to have ninety percent of all the charms in the world was lying in his arms like a cat.

It stands to reason that as a fresh-blooded person...a person who has been single for more than [-] years, he will have some reactions, but what Kobayashi SIR can react at this moment is...the tail?
Is the end of the tail hardened?

It's such a time, and you can still think wildly, Sir Xiaolin suddenly felt that in fact, he was still himself, not the god-like Nuo Gong.

"Mr. Nuo." Hu Mei called softly.

"Yes... yes!" SIR Xiaolin was sweating instantly, but he could only pretend to be a snake, "I am here!"

"What's wrong with you, why are you sweating so much?"

I saw Hu Mei took out the handkerchief at this time, but gently wiped her face for him, her eyes were soft and affectionate... Xiaolin Sir confirmed her eyes, this is only the heroine in TV dramas. eyes.

"Then...well, if I'm not the Duke Nuo you're looking for..."

"Then I'll kill you and then commit suicide." Hu Mei's face turned cold for a moment, her murderous intent was fierce.

SIR Xiaolin was afraid of the restriction, and crawled down like an ant in sweat... Could it be that Hu Mei is sick or something?
But Hu Mei smiled, stretched out her hand and patted his forehead, "What naughty things did you say? I frightened you. How could you not be a Nuo Gong... You are not a Nuo Gong, and the Nuo mother-in-law would not want to be with you." You have given birth to Hua Xu's son. If it wasn't for Sister Hei Yu who injected a ray of hatred, maybe the fire in the flame of love would really be born."

"I... I have many things that are messy and chaotic." SIR Xiaolin could only whisper.

Hu Mei said: "Don't be afraid, you just woke up, memory disorder is very normal, and it will get better after a while... I finally waited for you, this time I will not let go, forever, I will stay with you around."

——Great Immortal Tantai, what have you done...

SIR Kobayashi had an idea: "What if Mr. Vega finds him?"

"Mr. Vega?" Hu Mei frowned, and then suddenly said: "Are you talking about the master? Don't worry, the master is fighting against a strong enemy at this time. Although I don't know the origin of the mysterious girl, but I can fight with the master." God helped me to resist! Wait a minute, we will take away the [Different Heavenly Mechanism] left by the True Ancestor, and hide in the time and space where the master can't find it... Then, no one will be able to separate us."

"[Different secret]?" Xiao Lin SIR was startled.

Hu Mei nodded and said: "The treasure left by the true ancestor in the Waxi Ancestral Temple is an artifact that can truly change the sky and change the fate. We, the five-color messengers, were ordered to guard the ancestral temple. In addition to looking for the master's primordial spirit, there is another purpose, which is to guard the [Different Heaven's Secret]...Nuo Gong, you have been asleep for too long, have you forgotten the [Different Heaven's Secret]?"

"I...my head hurts a little." SIR Xiaolin covered his head with one hand at this time, showing a hint of pain, trying to hide it - but, the "unusual secret" in Hu Mei's mouth is probably the ancestor that Mr. Weijia is thinking about. The baby of the temple.

He thought so, but suddenly felt a softness wrapping himself.

The fragrance that poured into his heart made him seem to have forgotten the slightest moment... Hu Mei hugged him into her arms, gently kneaded his head, and said softly: "If you can't remember it, don't think about it... better?"

Kobayashi SIR only felt that this soft voice was like wind, the wind that could blow into the heart.

He suddenly understood Ma SIR's famous saying.

——Who can resist such a big scene!

"It's much better." He took a deep breath, as if he was reluctant to part with him, but after all he left this kind of gentle utopia, "Let's go and get the [Different Heavenly Secret] now... how long will it take?"

"Have you forgotten my ability?" Hu Mei chuckled lightly.

She waved her hand slowly, and her sleeves passed by like clouds, but the magnificent room in Xiao Lin's eyes seemed to disappear in a flash, replaced by an ancient hall in the dark.

"It's the easiest for me to come to the inner hall." Hu Mei leaned on Sir Xiao Lin's side, and said softly, "It would take a lot of effort for the elder sisters to come here."

Convenience is convenience, but there is no time left for himself to think. SIR Xiaolin is neither happy nor unhappy at this time, and can only see one step at a time.

"This... is this still in the desert?" SIR Kobayashi asked suddenly.

Hu Mei said: "In the chaotic starry sky, there is only a piece of desolate land, which used to be the battlefield between Hua Xu and the sky demon, and was exiled to the chaos with the death of the master. This piece of chaotic starry sky, only this piece of land, can be built. "

He thought of the wordless wooden monuments wrapped in cloth strips he had seen on the road, and the wandering souls of the Huaxu ancestors who could only be seen at night, and he couldn't help but feel an indescribable sadness in his heart... It turned out that this desolation The land of the land was once a battlefield.

At this moment, the earth trembled suddenly... the ancient hall shook even more.

"what's going on?"

"It's the master!" Hu Mei's expression froze at this moment, "I never thought that the girl with the sword could force the master to such an extent. Although the master has lost his body, there are very few people in the world who can do this Few...Mr. Nuo, we have to get the [Different Heavenly Secret] as soon as possible, this battlefield will probably be shattered in a short time."

"Okay...Okay!" SIR Xiaolin shuddered, subconsciously said: "The main thing is to go in and get the things away... There are no other traps or the like?"

Hu Mei said solemnly: "I have never opened this hall... But I can't care about it now. How can I say that you are the Duke of Nuo, and you are also of Hua Xu's blood!"

As she said that, Hu Mei pulled up Sir Xiaolin, and flew towards the huge gate of the ancient hall.

However, at this moment, Hu Mei seemed to have bumped into something invisible, and her body was bounced away... SIR Xiaolin looked with all his eyes, and saw that there seemed to be a ray in the air. The water curtain was shaking constantly due to the impact... like jelly.

Hu Mei landed on the ground, but her face was gloomy, she stared at the invisible water curtain, and said coldly: "[Red Tide]...you? You came in too?"

At the main entrance of the ancient hall, there was only a water shadow writhing, and a red light shadow slowly walking out... There was no appearance, the most striking thing was only the two eye-like lights on the chaotic face.

"You all came in, I stayed outside and didn't know what to do, so I just came in." The red light and shadow said slowly: "Sister Hu Mei, the ancestor said that unless it is the real son of Huaxu, otherwise You can’t open the hall and take out the [Different Heaven’s Secret].”

Hu Mei snorted coldly: "The birth of Huaxu's son was destroyed by Sister Heiyu, there is no Huaxu's son! Nuo Gong is also of Huaxu's blood, and he is now Huaxu's son! [Red Tide], get out of the way, read in these years I won't do anything with you because of your affection!"

"The true ancestor's order is above all else." [Hong Chao] shook his head.

"Nuwa is our master!" Hu Mei sneered suddenly.

[Red Tide] said indifferently: "The master once said that I must obey the instructions of the true ancestor in the future... The true ancestor said that only the son of Huaxu can take the [Different Heavenly Secret]."

"I'm sorry, [Red Tide]." Hu Mei said murderously, raising her hand and throwing out a space-cut vortex.

In the vortex of space, [Red Tide]'s body was instantly cut into thousands of pieces, it was extremely fragile... However, the strange thing is that those broken bodies fell to the ground, immediately They gathered together again and returned to their original appearance again.

There was a flash of white light on Hu Mei's body, revealing nine long white tails... Wearing a coat that looked like a fox demon, she jumped forward.

But the envoy named [Red Tide] directly exploded his body at this time, turning into a mist of water covering the surroundings.

"Sister Hu Mei, you know, I'm not good at fighting, but I'm good at hiding. As long as you can't touch my real body, even if you have the ability to space, you can't send me away...don't fight."

"I must take [Different Heaven's Secret]! No one can stop me from leaving with Nuo Gong!"

"Sister Hu Mei, is he really Lord Nuo?"

"Even the Nuo woman will never leave him, he is not, who is! Don't talk nonsense!"

"Then...then what if the Nuo Po you see is actually not the real Nuo Po?"

"Don't mess with my mind!"

"I understand." A faint sigh sounded: "People will only believe what they see, but even we, as messengers of five colors, are actually the same."

"Damn!" Hu Mei shouted violently.

In an instant, with her as the center, a terrifying spatial vortex with a diameter of more than [-] meters began to form... [-] meters was just its starting point, and this terrifying vortex was still expanding crazily.

This is obviously not a conventional force.

"Unexpectedly, did you achieve this level..." Only the voice of [Hong Chao] could be heard faintly: "Love, what kind of feeling is it like?"

In the crazily expanding space vortex, the sound of [Red Tide] gradually disappeared... The water mist covering the surroundings seemed to have been cut into atoms by countless space sharp blades.

At this time, with Hu Mei as the center point, a large pit of hundreds of meters appeared in front of SIR Xiao Lin - everything disappeared, only Hu Mei stood in the air.

But she fell down instantly.

Sir Xiao Lin was startled, hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth, leaped high, and caught Hu Mei... This graceful woman seemed extremely tired at this moment.

"You... are you okay?"

"Quick... open the hall quickly." Hu Mei said weakly, "[Red Tide] is very difficult to kill... we can only take advantage of it before it recovers... Duke Nuo... Hurry up."

——This woman is sincerely for [myself]...

Sir Xiaolin's heart trembled, he couldn't bear this unreserved gaze, because he knew that all of this was just some kind of coquettish operation by Immortal Tantai.

——Lin Feng, you are just a ten thousand year old single dog, don't take it seriously!

——The person she really loves is not you!

——You can't afford such a relationship...

"Okay, I'll help you get the [Different Heaven's Secret]." SIR Xiaolin took a deep breath at this moment: "You want it so much..."

Gritting his teeth, Xiao Lin SIR hugged Hu Mei horizontally, and rushed to the main entrance of the main hall without saying a word... He carefully placed Hu Mei beside him, then poured all his strength into his hands, and pushed towards the gate.

However, SIR Xiaolin exhausted all his strength, but he couldn't push the giant gate at all - even with his back against the gate, he still couldn't shake it!

As soon as the breath was released, SIR Kobayashi sat down panting heavily.

He looked at Hu Mei's gaze, felt numb for a while, and said with a wry smile: "I feel...does it really take the real son of Hua Xu to be qualified?"

"How could this be? You are Nuo Gong, and you are also pure blood of Huaxu. Why can't you...why..." She looked at it in a daze, and then pulled herself together, "It doesn't matter, I'll think about it again , it may be because of you that you came to wake up...it must be because of this, it must be, don't be discouraged, I will find a way."

"I'm not Nuo Gong." Xiao Lin SIR said quietly at this time, "Have you ever thought about it, maybe I'm just a [image]... Do you know me? You don't know me at all, you don't know my past, no Know everything about me."

"No, you are!" Hu Mei said like crazy, "If you don't tell, why is Nuo Po looking for you! If you don't tell, why is the Nuo Gong sword on you... If you don't tell, how can you Explode the power to compete with the master for a moment! Do you dare to say that these are all fake!"

Lin Feng smiled wryly, "I only know that you said you love me... But I don't even have a little memory of you, even if I really want to convince myself, I just passively accept all of this. But as soon as I think of such a relationship It's such an unreal time... You know, how much I wish I was just a scumbag at this moment, so I don't have to worry about anything."

"You...you don't like me anymore?" Hu Mei trembled.

"You say yes, so be it." Kobayashi SIR sighed, "It's not that I don't like it, but I'm afraid I don't have the qualifications to pretend to be someone else... Maybe you should wake up."

"You don't like me anymore, you don't like me anymore..." Hu Mei's eyes were lost, she murmured and laughed, "Nuo Gong doesn't like me anymore, I don't want me anymore... I don't want this kind of world anymore, I don't love it anymore .”

At the main entrance of the main hall, a vortex with a size of two to three meters quietly appeared.

At the juncture of life and death, Sir Xiao Lin opened his mouth and looked at Hu Mei's incomparably beautiful eyes, his heart trembled... Even if he just wanted to say something nice at this moment?

"I... am not Nuo Gong."

"Destroy." Hu Mei's eyes were empty, and the vortex fell instantly.

Kobayashi SIR couldn't avoid it, but at this moment, his heart was peaceful... It was as calm as if he was standing in a waveless pool.

He suddenly [saw] the reflection in the pool.

In the reflection, it was the... guy who gave him the Nuo Gong sword.

--I'm not you.

The reflection instantly shattered.

Already powerless to resist, he waited for death at this moment... with only a little regret in his heart.

Suddenly, a piercing sound sounded.

……

Amidst the whistling sound of piercing the air, a cold light came, which directly scattered the falling vortex... The cold light finally nailed to the gate, it was an ancient dagger.

"Nuo Gong Sword?!" Lin Feng subconsciously looked at the place where the cold light came from, and saw two figures coming quickly through the air. He was surprised and delighted, "Great Immortal! And... Ling'er..."

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The emaciated Tantai Great Immortal looked at this moment, her complexion still lacked much blood... She really looked like a walking skeleton.

I saw Great Immortal Tantai pouted at this moment, "You are so useless, your wife gave it to you, and you still can't get up! Isn't such a good body greedy?"

"You did a good job!" Kobayashi SIR stared at him indignantly.

Great Immortal Tantai didn't care about him, Hu Mei hadn't solved it yet - but Ling'er had already made a move first, waving her hand and brushing out a colorful divine light, directly imprisoning Hu Mei.

"Nuo woman!" Hu Mei was filled with grief and indignation, her eyes filled with hatred, "It must be you...it must be you who washed away Nuo Gong's friendship with me! It's you!!"

"It's really noisy." Ling'er snorted softly, and immediately sealed Hu Mei's mouth, and then stared at Tantai Immortal with hatred, and said slightly angrily: "You did a good deed!"

Immortal Tantai shrugged his shoulders at this time, and said irresponsibly: "At least you two are not well now."

Sir Xiaolin hurriedly said: "Miss Tantai, do you have a way to get out of here? I just heard from Hu Mei that this place will soon be broken... It seems to be because of her master fighting against a powerful one! What is it all about?" Immortals fighting!"

"Maybe he really is a god." Tantai Daxian chuckled lightly, "What's in it?"

"Well...it seems to be a treasure in the ancestral temple." Sir Xiaolin glanced at Hu Mei, then at Ling'er, and said bravely: "Miss Tantai, you must listen to the story of people making money and birds dying for food. Let's go! Let's retreat quickly!"

"It's all here." Tantai snorted calmly, "Don't you even take a look?"

Saying that, Tantai Pingping pushed towards the door without saying anything... But no matter how much power she exerted, she couldn't shake the door at all.

"It seems that you can't use brute force with this thing." Tantai calmly said seriously.

"You can't open it even with cleverness." Ling'er said abruptly.

"Tear down the stage?" Daxian was instantly dissatisfied.

However, Ling'er suddenly stretched out her hand to press the door, and pushed it lightly... The huge door opened slowly with a gap.

Tantai Jingping couldn't help blinking his eyes and said: "It's interesting."

Xiao Lin SIR blurted out: "Ling'er, so you are the son of Hua Xu!"

"The son of Huaxu hasn't been born yet." Ling'er said quietly, and looked at Sir Xiaolin sadly, "The so-called son of Huaxu can only be opened, but it's just a lie... This door only recognizes Huaxu. It's just the soul of the Xu clan."

Hu Mei, who was imprisoned, seemed to have calmed down a little, but at this moment she was still staring at Ling'er relentlessly.

Great Immortal Tantai thought for a while and said, "You...why are you so clear?"

Ling'er said indifferently: "I know, it's because the first person to go in is me... [Different Heaven's Secret], I also used it."

With that said, Ling'er pushed the door wider, and then walked straight into it.

Her voice came from inside, but she said to SIR Kobayashi, "You...don't you want to know the truth? If you really want to know, then come with me...but maybe, I will eat you. "

SIR Kobayashi couldn't help but shudder... Is this food, is it democratic?
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Like two meteors, falling to the ground—a huge sandstorm broke out in this desolate world.

The light of the famous sword in the east is dim, and the girl's clothes are like fragments, and she is in a panic.

To the west, [Vega] has hundreds of sword marks on his body, bleeding profusely, and there are even places where the bones are almost visible.

A thousand meters away, the girl looked at the figure to the west, and once again brought up [Xuanyuan Xiayu] with all her strength... It's just that the famous sword seemed to be whining at this time, trembling endlessly, obviously it was some kind of limit.

"If you don't use [Star Sand] to practice again, maybe this time..."

The girl groaned silently, only to see the scary guy in the west slowly approaching
Fighting this kind of old-age legend... Even if only the will of the primordial spirit is left, it is like killing a nightmare boss, and the girl can't help but feel powerless for a while.

She knew that Nu Wa must have been a top-notch powerhouse in the old era of void... But is the gap between the old and new eras really that big?
Fuxi [Throne] really played a high-end game...

"Even if you don't have a god position, you can fight me to this extent. As a Sanxian, you are proud enough." [Vega] jumped forward, and it was obvious that he was exhausted, but at the same time he obviously still had the strength to fight.

After all, [Vega] punched out directly, no longer talking about tricks, the instinctive wildness seems to be the most real fist.

But the moment the fist was swung, that steel-like arm was shattered inch by inch... With this fist swung, [Vega]'s entire arm was annihilated and disappeared.

"It seems that the body you descended into is already useless." The girl laughed miserably at this moment.

[Vega] After the arm was annihilated, dense cracks appeared all over his body, as if a glass statue that had been reassembled was broken.

"It's enough to kill you!"

"I hope you can still speak like this soon." The girl suddenly let out a sigh of relief, and then spread her palms, and there was a black whirlpool in the palm... In the whirlpool, there was an ominous aura spreading.

Feeling this ominous air, [Vega]'s expression changed slightly!
In an instant, a terrifying head rushed out of the vortex... followed by more than a dozen pairs of weird claws, frantically trying to tear the vortex apart!

"Devil?!"

"This thing is called Yuanmo." The girl said indifferently: "When you kill too much in your spare time, you will get tired of it, and you will catch a few to raise...It is very useful to clean up the garbage. As I said, entering the void is very important for the original soul. To put it bluntly, it's pure courting death... These guys have been hungry for a long time!"

Hiss-!
In an instant, dozens...hundreds, like a torrent of torrents, pieces of Void Essence Demon escaped from the girl's palm.

"There is also a Yuanzu Yuanmo..."

Facing these hundreds of void primordial demons... foreign demon gods, [he] would have no fear in normal times, but at this time the body of advent has collapsed. , Unintentionally it is a huge consumption.

"Damn..."

[Vega] At this time, instead of advancing, retreat... quickly retreat.

[He] needs a carrier, a powerful carrier that can carry [it] the will of the mother of all things!

At this moment, the girl could only watch those primordial demons who had gone crazy chasing after each other crazily... The attraction of the original soul to the primordial demons was obviously greater than that of herself as a void powerhouse.

At this time, she was planted headlong in the sand... In fact, she was already at the end of her strength.

"Your...you are here."

The girl said something suddenly and softly.

It's just that in the empty desert, it is unusually quiet.

The girl said indifferently: "I won't let you marry me anymore, so why should you hide from me... I asked you for the [Book of Heaven], but I also dealt with Nuwa. The deal with you has been completed... I don't know if you can satisfy."

The desert was still unusually quiet, except for a gleam of light... The girl only felt that her tiredness was fading away.

The girl sat cross-legged into meditation, and before she entered into meditation, she suddenly chuckled, "It's a shame that you can't get your promise from you."

The gleam suddenly disappeared.

The girl didn't care, and began to heal herself.

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SIR Kobayashi went in without hesitation.

Naturally, Great Immortal Tantai would not miss it either.

The two stepped into the main hall almost one after the other... In the main hall, thousands of oil lamps were lit in rows.

In the ancient hall, it is very empty. There is only one high platform, on which there is a golden lotus flower statue... A square box the size of a basketball is floating above the lotus stone statue.

At this time, Ling'er had already boarded the high platform, and was silently waiting for the arrival of the two...Lin Feng.

Lin Feng subconsciously looked at Tantai as calm as if he got a hint of encouragement from the eyes of the Great Immortal, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed.

"Old Lin, I can't change it again. If you still can't get along with this girl, you can kill yourself on the spot."

What are you talking about...

Sir Xiaolin opened his mouth, but still hesitantly boarded the high platform... He looked at Ling'er, hesitant to speak.

At this moment, Ling'er suddenly reached out and took out the square box on the lotus stone statue, "Actually, the [Different Heavenly Secret] you are looking for has long since disappeared... This box is empty."

The two spoke almost in unison, their eyes widened, "What?"

Ling'er slowly opened the square box, "When I used it...for the last time, it was..."

"Wait, isn't there something here?" SIR Kobayashi subconsciously pointed at the square box, "Is there something?"

"One..." Immortal Tantai also said in amazement at this time: "Wooden fish? Is this the legendary treasure that reverses yin and yang and can regenerate time?"

"How could it be..." But seeing Ling'er looking at the wooden fish in the square box at this time, she was also in a daze... After a long time, Ling'er breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that that person came here once. over here..."

"Who?" Tantai calmly asked subconsciously.

Ling'er gritted her teeth and said, "A damned monk!"

(End of this chapter)