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CHAPTER 146
Twenty minutes had already gone by since he began to carve out the tiny corner of the wall, which he intended to crawl out from.The old stones were indeed hard to carve out without letting the entire building fall apart. Every strike had to be measured. One wrong move, one section weakened too much, and the entire wall could come crashing down on top of him.The result was that the edges were rough since he was cutting circularly along the areas where the mortar was applied. Between stones.Small fragments of stone continued to fall whenever his tool scraped too deeply into the wall. Each time, Theon froze and listened, waiting to hear the ominous groan of shifting stone.Nothing. Only then would he resume.He also had to use special miniature arrays to hold up the sections he had already cut open. Tiny arrays flickered faintly in the darkness, anchoring the weakened stones and preventing them from shifting under their own weight.The process was painfully slow.Sweat poured steadily
CHAPTER 145
Theon's heart was hammering erratically in his chest. But somehow, he managed to stay silent enough that even his breath remained undetectable. His entire body had gone rigid behind the cupboard. He could hear the faintest sounds from the passage outside, the barely audible scrape of footsteps against the floor, followed by a moment of silence. The person walking along the passage stopped briefly before pushing open the door. Theon held his breath. That was when he noticed something. There was a second footstep which he hadn't detected before. His eyes narrowed. Two people? The first footsteps had been so light that he had barely registered them, but now there was another presence moving through the passage. His fingers curled slowly against the floor as he strained his ears. “There’s no one here. I told you he’s still sleeping upstairs.” He heard old man Lu’s familiar voice say. Theon’s brows furrowed. Old man Lu? “Better.” A gruff one answered. The voice was unfamiliar. D
CHAPTER 144
Theon checked the time once again. It was seven in the evening.He had checked around the house thoroughly. Every window now had metal barricades reinforced across it. He could remove them and just leave. However, the mark would leave visible damage on both the wall and the metal bars. Damage that would be difficult to explain, and hard to hide.There also was the monitoring formation upstairs that was supposed to track and record his movements.He had thought carefully, turning over every possibility in his mind, and there was no safe exit out of the building.And time was counting down.“Since they're watching the doors and windows to see when I leave, why don't I just totally avoid both?”The idea was absurd. But that seemed to be the only option left.“You think you can use a teleportation talisman or technique without disrupting the formations?” The system sneered. “Quite naive.”Theon chuckled, his pitch low. “Who said anything about teleportation?”He made his way to the back
CHAPTER 143
Backlands; Theon's New RoomTheon finally settled for the room opposite his previous room.It wasn't ideal. Far from it.However, considering the circumstances, it was still better than remaining in his previous room and waiting for the death formation to finish what it had started.There were drawbacks, though.The most troublesome was the environment itself.He couldn't simply absorb energy from the surroundings since it was basically poison.Currently, in the room, there was a giant tent. The thick silver tent took up most part of the modest room, leaving only a narrow path around its edges. Its leather surface shimmered faintly under the dim light, covered in tiny, almost imperceptible patterns that pulsed whenever the formations outside shifted.All around, there were also thick rugs with special arrays engraved on them to repel the other formations.The rugs overlapped slightly at the edges, creating another defensive layer between Theon and the death formations hidden throughou
CHAPTER 142
By the time Xiao Lingxiao finished going through the details of the investigation, her blood was already boiling with rage.She staggered toward a comfortable chair and collapsed against it. Her fists were clenched so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms.A scowl marred her normally cheerful face, her nostrils flaring slightly as she chewed the inside of her cheeks.“Princess, calm down.”“Picking on him because he had no substantial cultivation, authorities giving their tacit agreement, refusing to hand over Uncle Ren's treasury...” Lingxiao's voice was low, but the anger simmering beneath it was unmistakable. “It's hard to convince others Solvyn had no part in the conspiracy.”Yumei’s eyes widened, and she rushed to her.“Princess, don't say that. The conspiracy is just a rumour. Uncle Ren died in a battle after sealing the portals.”Lingxiao smirked and nodded.“I hope so.”There was no smoke without fire.If such rumours existed within the ruling class, then there must h
CHAPTER 141
Apex Court, Golden PavilionXiao Lingxiao paced the length of her lavish apartment, mind distant and filled with worry. Yumei wasn't back yet.Her footsteps echoed softly across the polished floor, but she barely heard them. Her thoughts were elsewhere, circling around the same two things she had been trying, and failing, to push from her mind.Yumei. Then there was Theon.It had already been an hour.Lingxiao glanced toward the entrance again, her brows knitting together.She didn't know if he'd managed to combat whatever it was that was giving off that kind of heavy aura of evil.The memory of that oppressive aura still lingered in her senses. Even from a distance, it had been enough to make the hairs on her arms rise. She had encountered powerful cultivators before, and she had sensed the presence of sinister techniques and dangerous artifacts, but that particular aura had felt different.Like something that wanted to consume rather than merely destroy.“He's Uncle Ren's son. He ca
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