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"What else can we do?"
Hearing the familiar voice, the group perked up and quickly looked towards the door, where they saw Lin Jiu'an walk in.
"Brother? You're back!"
Coral Palace's beautiful eyes lit up, and her little face flushed.
If there weren't other people around, she would have loved to throw herself into Lin Jiu'an's arms and tell him all the grievances she had suffered during this time.
Seeing Coral Palace Xin Hai's excited expression upon seeing her lover, Ying suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. She suppressed her equally happy expression, pouted, put her hands on her hips, and stared at Lin Jiu An with a death stare.
Paimon promptly stepped in as Ying's mouth double, floating beside her and joining her in putting her hands on her hips.
"So you finally decided to come back?!"
"Sorry, the idea was a bit tricky, that's why I got back late."
You look a little tired.
Ying noticed Lin Jiu'an's obviously tired expression and stopped being angry. She asked with concern, "Why don't you go and rest first? Xin Hai, Bei Dou, and I are here. We can hold on for a few days without any major problems."
Lin Jiu'an yawned and waved his hand, saying, "We'll talk about it later."
He was indeed very tired.
He fought Balzeb for so long in the mental space.
Most of the time, she was the one who was suppressing the world, and at the same time, she had to endure the mental pain while fighting on two fronts, wielding her sword and talking at the same time. She also had to be fully focused on the battle while paying attention to Balzeb's expression to observe her emotional changes.
Lin Jiu'an was feeling dizzy and just wanted to lie down and get a good night's sleep.
He never imagined that Balzeb's will would be so "tough".
If Balzeb still had the same mindset as in her previous life when she was verbally abused by Ying and Yae no Miko, Lin Jiu'an was confident that he could talk her out of her wits within a few days.
But perhaps it was because I had already been kissed once in my previous life.
Balzeb's 'resistance' to lip-slapping has significantly increased in this life, making it much more difficult for him.
"Let's talk about the situation first."
Lin Jiu'an plopped down in the chair.
"Now..."
Coral Palace Xin Hai stood aside and began to explain to him.
However, looking at the map and the dazzling array of complex red dots, lines, and annotations on it, and listening to Coral Palace Xin Hai lecturing like a teacher, Lin Jiu'an soon began to feel sleepy.
"Brother?"
When Lin Jiu'an came to his senses, he saw Coral Palace Xin Hai looking at him with concern.
"Why don't you go and get some sleep, elder brother?"
"No need, let's talk first."
Lin Jiu'an waved his hand, but still thought Ken was amazing.
Looking at the soft waist of Coral Palace Heart Sea, he reached out and pulled Coral Palace Heart Sea into his arms.
Coral Palace Heart Sea was caught off guard and cried out "Ah!"
Feeling Lin Jiu'an's warm embrace, Coral Palace Xin Hai Xin relaxed and subconsciously hugged him back. However, she quickly realized that this was not in the bedroom but in the living room, and in front of other people.
"Brother, elder brother?"
Especially when her best friend Ying gave her a death stare that seemed to say, "I never expected you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to betray me!", the somewhat thin-skinned Coral Palace Xin Hai felt a little dizzy.
Let's get straight to the point.
Holding the soft, delicate body of Coral Palace, Lin Jiu'an felt a bit more energetic.
"How is it now? When I came here, I saw quite a few troops from the Heavenly Territory Magistrate outside the Coral Palace?"
"Is such that..."
Coral Palace Xin Hai could only suppress her embarrassment and explain the situation to Lin Jiu An.
It was essentially a complete rout.
In order to preserve their strength and avoid being defeated one by one, they had to retreat to the Coral Palace, relying on the terrain of the Coral Palace and the huge coral outside to resist the Heavenly Lord's army, which numbered more than ten times their size.
Lin Jiu'an concluded, "So that means there are no of our soldiers outside? And the other side doesn't seem to have any intention of attacking for the time being?"
"That's right, they probably intend to surround us without attacking until we run out of food."
"That's it."
Princess Lin Jiu'an stood up, holding Coral Palace Heart Sea.
"Never mind them for now, just sleep with me..."
Just as Lin Jiu'an was about to go to the bedroom to use the Coral Palace Heart Sea as a pillow to take a nap, he was stunned to see Beidou standing there.
"Why are you here?"
"It's like this, elder brother. Haiqi Island has limited military strength, and I thought that every extra person would be more effective, so I took the liberty of releasing her..."
Before Coral Palace Heart Sea could finish speaking, Ying suddenly interrupted, "I did it."
Lin Jiu'an turned his head and saw Ying staring at him with her little face puffed up, looking exactly like a resentful woman who had been abandoned.
Lin Jiu'an was also a little embarrassed.
I was so sleepy that I forgot Ying was there too.
He knew he had gone too far by treating her like a servant, but there was nothing he could do; he could only blame Ying for being so useful.
Before Lin Jiu'an could say anything, Coral Palace Xin Hai hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Thanks to Ying and Beidou, I've been able to hold on until now. Beidou was ambushed and injured while saving me a while ago, and almost died."
"Injuried?"
Lin Jiu'an looked at Bei Dou and then noticed that her right shoulder, leg, and right chest were all wrapped in gauze.
The drowsiness on Lin Jiu'an's face disappeared.
He walked up to Beidou, raised his hand, and placed it on Beidou's clothes.
next moment.
The gauze on Beidou's wound and all the clothes on his body were shaken into dust by the wind element, revealing his naked body covered in wounds, especially the wound on his chest, which was only a few centimeters away from piercing his heart.
"what are you doing?!"
Seeing Lin Jiu'an examining and touching her wound with great interest, Bei Dou became furious.
"Even after all I'm like this, you still want..."
"Who did it?"
Beidou was stunned. For some reason, she suddenly felt that Lin Jiu'an's smile was a little terrifying. Perhaps it was because she had been 'trained' by him for a long time. Beidou was speechless for a moment.
“Kujo Kamaji,” Sango Mikoto answered for her.
"So it was him, no wonder."
Lin Jiu'an chuckled and clicked his tongue, stroking his chin as he examined Beidou's wounds with great interest.
"Doesn't he know she's my dog?"
Beidou suddenly felt immense pressure for no apparent reason and was unable to speak. Only Coral Palace Heart Sea managed to say with difficulty, "Perhaps..."
"never mind."
Lin Jiu'an waved his hand and walked outside.
"I've been busy for so long, I'm hungry and thirsty. Prepare some food and make me some tea. I'll be back in a bit."
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Outside the Coral Palace.
At the entrance of the Tianling military camp, several soldiers on night duty were chatting while holding their spears.
"Why won't the higher-ups let us attack?"
"My cousin said that the higher-ups think Coral Palace is too difficult to attack, and they plan to wait until the food inside runs out before attacking it."
"I see!"
"Speaking of which, will you recruit a vanguard unit when the attack begins?"
"That's for sure. My cousin told me that they're going to pick out good guys from various military units to be the vanguard when they charge in."
The soldier said smugly, "I've already signed up, and my cousin promised to save me a spot."
“This is so cool.”
"I've heard that the priestesses of the Coral Palace are all incredibly beautiful, with fair and delicate skin. They are priestesses, after all. Normally, you don't even have the chance to glance at them, let alone speak to them."
"Then you can go in first and do whatever you want, right?"
"Of course. My cousin said that as long as we can break in, apart from Coral Palace Heart Sea and those few big shots, we can do whatever we want with the other priestesses."
Upon hearing this, the other soldiers' eyes lit up with envy, and they began to flatter the man and beg for a spot.
The soldier accepted all offers without hesitation, and after receiving a wave of benefits, he patted his chest and assured the soldier that the money would be his.
Just as these people were chatting about their blissful moments after storming the Coral Palace, a soldier suddenly shouted.
"Who?!"
Why are you shouting so loudly? Trying to scare me to death?
"Why are you so startled? There's no one there!"
"No, there's someone there. I just saw what looked like a figure over there."
The soldier pointed nervously toward the Coral Palace.
The group looked for a while but could only see a dark mass; they couldn't hear a single cat meow, let alone a human figure.
"I'm not saying this to be rude, but you're such a coward."
"Still thinking about adding an advance force? Go back and wash up and go to sleep."
Just as a group of people were laughing at him.
suddenly.
Footsteps came from the darkness.
The laughter of the crowd stopped abruptly, and they turned their heads in surprise and doubt. They saw a young man with black hair and black eyes, holding a purple katana, yawning and slowly walking out of the darkness.
"Feel sorry."
"I was so sleepy that I couldn't help but space out for a while."
The young man rubbed his face, then shook the "Dream Together" in his hand.
Who wants to be the first to die?
Chapter Nineteen: Carnage in the Army (5k)
None of the soldiers were brainless idiots.
Having fought alongside the army for so long and being here to keep watch at night, it's impossible for him to be completely oblivious.
The Coral Palace has been besieged for so long that the surrounding people have either died or fled.
This was in the middle of the night.
The person in front of me doesn't seem like someone who's lost, based on their words and actions.
Add to that this young man, wielding a formidable-looking purple blade, not to mention his appearance and demeanor, which surpassed even those of the family scions they occasionally encountered in the army.
"what do you..."
The group exchanged glances, and the leader finally managed to say something, albeit reluctantly.
Then I heard a 'plop' sound.
Then, he felt something flowing out of his body from his chest, and he lost a lot of strength. He looked down and saw blood gushing out continuously.
The other soldiers saw it clearly.
The man wielding the purple knife instantly covered a distance of over ten meters and appeared before them, killing their men.