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Nightfall Part 13

The moon dipped lower over the trees while Lawrence took one of his sharp turns of self-analysis. Most men live in a haze, but Lawrence was naturally a clear thinker, and he had neither a warm heart nor a sentimental temperament to blind him. Cleve was safe: but with his Rabelaisian candour and cultivated want of scruple Lawrence reflected that Cleve had been anything but safe at Bingley. Whence the change? From Isabel Stafford! Lawrence shrugged his shoulders: he was accustomed to examine himself in a dry light of curiosity, and no vice or weakness shocked him, but here was pure folly.

What was he doing at Wanhope? "I'm contracting attachments," he reflected, unbuttoning his silk jacket to feel the night air cool on his chest, a characteristic action: wind, sunshine, a wandering scent, the freshness of dew, all the small sensuous pleasures that most men neglect, Lawrence would go out of his way to procure. "I'm breaking my rule." Long ago he had resolved never to let himself get fond of any one again, because in this world of chance and change, at the mercy of a blindly striking power, the game is not worth the candle: one suffers too much.

As for Miss Stafford, one need not be a professed stole to draw the line at a little country girl, pious to insipidity and simple to the brink of silliness. Here Lawrence, not being one of those who deny facts when they are unwelcome, caught himself up: she was not insipid and her power over him was undeniable. Twice within forty-eight hours she had defeated his will, and what was stranger was that each time he had surrendered eagerly, feeling for the moment as though it didn't matter what he said or did before Isabel.--It was at this point of his analysis that Lawrence began to take fright. "You rascal," he said to himself, "so that's why you're off Mrs. Cleve, is it? What is it you want--to marry the child? You would be sick to death of her in six weeks--and haven't you had enough of giving hostages to Fortune?"

Hostages to fortune: that pregnant phrase frightens men who fear nothing else in heaven or earth. But not one of Hyde's friends knew that he had ever given fortune a hostage. He was not reserved as a rule: indeed he was always willing to argue creed and code with a frankness rare in the self-conscious English race: he was never shy and there was little in him that was distinctively English. But he was too subtle and inconsistent for the average homogeneous Englishman, and not even the comrades of trench and tent knew much about his private life. Lawrence was one of those products of a high civilization which have in them pretty strong affinities with barbarism,--but always with a difference. The noble savage tortures his enemy out of hate or revenge: Lawrence, more sophisticated in brutality, was capable of doing it by way of a psychological experiment. The savage takes a short cut from desire to possession: Lawrence though his blood ran hot curbed it from caution, because in modern life women are a burden and a drag.

This was the trained and tempered Lawrence Hyde, a personage of great good humour and numitigable egoism. This was the companion of easy morals with whom Lawrence was on familiar terms. But on that first white night at Wanhope Lawrence grew dimly aware of the upheaval of deeper forces, as if his youth were stirring in its grave. When Laura Clowes smiled at him with her gallant bearing: when Bernard gripped his hand in wishing him good night: when Val in the middle of the psychological experiment pierced him with his grave tired eyes, all sorts of feelings long dormant and believed to be dead came to life in Lawrence: pity, and affection, and remorse and shame. "Hang the fellow!" Lawrence reflected. "He's too like his sister. And Isabel? She is a child." Whose voice was it that answered, "This is the woman I have been waiting for all my life?"

And then, turning at bay, he came to a sufficiently cynical conclusion. "No nonsense!" he said to himself. "Your trouble is that she's twenty and you're six and thirty, which is a dangerous age. But you don't want to marry her, and there's no middle course. Fruit defendu, mon ami: hands off! If you can't be sensible you'll have to shift out of Wanhope and compromise on Mrs. Cleve."

The rain held off, and after breakfast--a cheery meal at which Bernard for the first time for many months appeared dressed and in a good temper--Lawrence fulfilled the main duty of a guest by going for a walk.

He came by footbridge and field path into the High Street, where he was immediately buttonholed by the vicar. Lawrence had a fixed idea that all priests were hypocrites: they must be, since as educated men they could not well believe the fables they were paid to teach! But it was hard to associate hypocrisy with Mr.

Stafford, whose fond ambition it was to nail Lawrence Hyde to lecture on his Chinese travels before the Bible Class. "Oh, nothing religious," he explained, holding his victim firmly by the coat as Lawrence edged away. "Only half an hour's story-telling to put a few new ideas into their heads--as if you were talking to a young brother of your own. I'm always trying to get them to emigrate, but they need a great deal of shoving." Lawrence said they could not emigrate to China, and, further, that he didn't regard them as brothers. "How narrow you are, some of you University men!" sighed Mr. Stafford.

"What a concept of society! But," brightening, "you're not so bad as you're painted. Come, come! a fifth-of-August recruit can't very well deny that we're all brothers in arms?" Before Lawrence escaped he was not sure that he hadn't pledged himself to an address on "Fringes of the Empire," with special reference to the C.U.M.C.A.

It was too sunny to fish, but the trout lured him, and from the cross-roads by the stone bridge he struck into a footpath that led upstream into the hills, behind whose green spurs Chilmark before long was out of sight. Here it was lonely country.

Sometimes on a headland the sun flashed white over a knot of labourers, scything the hay where no machine could go: sometimes a shepherd's cote gleamed far off above the pale wattlings of a fold: but as he wound on--and on into the Plain there was no sign of man in all the hot landscape, and no motion but the bicker of the stream over its stony bed, and the hum of insect life busy on its millions of dark and tiny vibrant wings. Not a breath of wind stirred among these grassy valleys, and Lawrence, feeling warm, had sat down by a pool under a sapling birchtree, when he heard a step on the path. It was Isabel Stafford.

He had hardly seen her again overnight, for Val had carried his young sister away before ten o'clock. He waited for her in the rare shadow of the birchtree, a tall powerful figure in a white drill suit of the tropics, his fair skin and black eyes shaded by a wide Panama hat. Isabel as she drew near was vexed to find herself blushing. She was a little shy of Captain Hyde, a little averse to meet his sparkling eyes.

"Isn't it hot?" she said, frankly wiping her face with a large handkerchief. "This is a favourite pool of mine, I often sit here when I come this way. I never saw such beautiful dragonflies, did you? They must be nearly as big as hummingbirds."

Over the brown mirror of the pool a troop of great dragonflies were ceaselessly darting to and fro, their metallic wings making a faint whirr as they looped in blinding mazes through the air that glowed blue with their splendour. "Very beautiful," said Lawrence.

"Are you out for a walk? I'm on my way to Wancote." Here panic fell on Isabel, the panic that lies in wait for young girls: if he were to think she thought he ought to offer to escort her!

"I'm late, I must go on now. Good-bye!"

Lawrence stood looking down at her, impassive, almost sombre, but for the hot glow in his eyes. His caution had gone overboard.

"Mayn't I come too?"

"Oh. . . ."

"Do let me."

"If you--if you like."

The valley narrowed as it receded, the upland air began to sparkle with a myriad prismatic needles that glittered from the wings of flies and beetles, and from dewdrops on patches of turf still as grey as hoarfrost in the shadow on the edge of a wood, and from wayside hollies whose leaf-points were all starred in silver. The blue bow overhead was stainless, not a cloud in it nor a mist: azure, azure, and unfathomable, like the heart of man, or the justice of God.--Isabel was not shy now but alert and radiant, as if she had caught a sparkle from the air: and expansive, as women are when they are sure of pleasing. "'For the jaded man of the world at her side, the young girl's rustic freshness was her chief charm. She was so different from the beautiful but heartless mondaines he had known in Town. No diamonds glittered round her slender throat, and her hands, though small and well-shaped, were tanned by the summer sun. But for the jaded-man-of-the-world, weary of sparkling epigram or caustic repartee, her simple chatter held a fascination of its own.' I don't believe," reflected Isabel, coming down mentally to plain prose, "he'd mind if I talked to him about the dinner or last week's washing bill."

She did not in fact enter on any such intimate topic, but conversed sedately about parish politics and the beauties of the Plain. "This is a very lonely part," she said, "there are scarcely any houses. I'm taking the magazine to one of Major Clowes' shepherds. It's rather interesting going there. He's mad."

"Mad!"

"As a March hare. He's perfectly harmless of course, and an excellent shepherd. In lambing time he looks after the ewes like a mother, Val says his flock hardly ever lose a lamb. But he's a thrilling person to district-visit. Last time I went he had the Prince of Wales staying with him."

"Why on earth don't they put him in an asylum?"

"Do you know much about country villages?" Isabel enquired. "I thought not. They never put any one in an asylum till after he's got into trouble, and not always then if he doesn't want to go: just as they never build a bridge over a level crossing till one or two people have been killed. We had a woman in Chilmark that was much madder than poor dear Ben is. She took a knife out of her drawer once when I was there and told me she was going to cut her throat with it. She made me feel the edge to see how sharp it was. At last she cut the children's throats instead of her own, and then they put her away, but none of them died and she's out again now. She's supposed to be cured. You see a County asylum doesn't keep people longer than it must because the money comes out of the rates."

"Do you mean to say," Lawrence fastened on the point that struck him most forcibly, "that your father lets you go to such places by yourself?"

"Oh yes: why not? He would think it showed want of faith to prevent me. He's very sensible about things like that," said Isabel without affectation. "There are always typhoid and diphtheria about in the autumn, but Jimmy never fusses. It wouldn't be much use if he did, with him and Val always in and out of infected houses."

"Pure fatalism--" said Lawrence, hitting with his stick at the flowers by their path. "Your brother ought to put his foot down--" Isabel seized his arm.

"Take care!-- There was a bee in it. You really are most careless Captain Hyde! I shan't take you for any more walks if you do that. I dare say it was one of my own bees, and he had the very narrowest escape! And Val wouldn't dream of interfering.

Ben and I are the best of friends. Besides, it's Mrs. Janaway I really go to see, poor dear, she don't ever hear a bit o' news from week's end to week's end. Wouldn't you be glad to see me," her eyes were destitute of challenge but not of humour, "if you lived three miles deep in the Plain, alone with your husband and the Prince of Wales?"

"I should be delighted to see you at any time."

Isabel, not knowing what to do with this speech, let it alone.

"And the dog: I mustn't forget the dog. They have a thoroughbred Great Dane. Mr. Bendish gave Ben the puppy because it was the worst of the litter and they thought it would die: but it didn't die--no animal does that Ben gets hold of--and he's too fond of it now to part with it, though a dog fancier from Amesbury has offered him practically his own price for it."

"I should like to see the Dane."

"Well, you will, if you come with me. There's the cottage."

They had turned a bend and the head of the dale lay before them, a mere dimpling depression between breasts of chalky grass. Set close by the way on a cross-track, which forded the brook by stepping stones and went on over the downs to Amesbury, stood a small, square, tumbledown cottage, its door opening on primeval turf, though behind it a plot of garden enclosed in a quickset hedge provided Mrs. Janaway with cabbages and gooseberries and sour apples and room to hang out the clothes.

"Ben won't be in, but Billy will be looking after Clara. Billy is no good with the sheep, but he's death on tramps. In fact if I weren't here it wouldn't be too safe for you to go to the door.

A Dane can pull any man down: I've heard even Jack Bendish say he wouldn't care to tackle him--"

Even Jack Bendish! Lawrence smiled. He felt the prick of Isabel's blade, it amused him, automatically he reacted to it, she made him want to fight the Dane first and Jack Bendish afterwards--but he retained just too much of the ascendancy of his six and thirty years to gratify her by self-betrayal.

"You're a very brave young lady," he said cheerfully, "but if I were Val--"

He stopped short. From the cottage window, now not twenty yards off, there had come a burst of the most appalling screams he had ever heard in his life, the mechanical screaming of mortal agony.

Isabel went as white as chalk and even Hyde felt the blood turn cold at his heart. Next moment the door was torn open and out of it came a big red-bearded man, dressed in a brown tweed jacket and velveteen trousers tied at the knees, and prancing high in a solemn jig. In one hand he held up an iron stake and in the other a rag of red and black carpet . . . the body of a woman in a black dress, her arms and legs hanging down, her face a scarlet mask that had ceased to scream.

"Keep back, Isabel," said Lawrence: then, running across the turf, "Drop that, Janaway! drop her!" in the hard authoritative voice of the barrack square. With the fitful docility of the mad, Janaway obeyed, and directly he did so Lawrence checked and stood on the defensive, taking a moment to collect his wits--he had need of them: he had to make his head guard his hands. He was a tall powerful man, but so was the shepherd: to offset Hyde's science, Janaway was mad and would be stopped by no punishment short of a knock-out blow: and Lawrence carried only an ordinary walking-stick, while Janaway had hold of an upright from a bit of iron railing, five feet long and barbed like a spear.

"If he whacks me over the head with that or jabs it into my stomach, I'm done," Lawrence thought, and pat to the moment Janaway, his mouth open and his teeth bare, rushed on him and struck at his eyes. Lawrence parried and sprang aside: but his arm was jarred to the elbow. "That was a close call. Ha! my chance now . . ." Like a flash, as Janaway turned, Lawrence ran in to meet him body to body, seized him by the lapels of his coat, pinned down his arms, set one foot against his thigh, and with no great exertion of strength, by the Samurai's trick of falling with one's enemy, heaved him up and shot him clean over his own shoulder: then, as they dropped together, struck with his wrist a paralysing blow at the base of the spine. Janaway's yell of fury was choked into a rattling groan.

Lawrence was up in a twinkling, but the shepherd lay where he had fallen, and Lawrence let him lie: he knew that, so handled, the victim could be counted out of action, perhaps for good and all.

He stood erect, breathing deep. Ben could wait, but what of Mrs.

Ben? He was shocked to find Isabel already at her side on the reddened turf.

Mechanically Lawrence picked up his stick before he went to join her. Clara was huddled up over a pool of blood, her head between her knees: not a pleasant sight for a young girl. But Isabel, though white and trembling, was collected. "I can't feel her heart, I--I'm afraid--"

She broke off. Her glance had travelled beyond Lawrence and her features were stiffening into a mask of fear. "Oh, the dog, the dog!" she pointed past him. "Billy, Billy, down, sir!"

From some eyrie on the hillside the Dane had watched without emotion the legitimate spectacle of his master beating his mistress: in the war of the sexes, a dog is ever on the man's side. But when the tables were turned Billy went to the rescue.

He was coming round the corner of the cottage when Isabel caught sight of him, travelling in great bounds at the pace of a wolf, but silent. Lawrence had but just time to swing Isabel behind him before the Dane leapt for his throat. Lawrence struck him over the head, but the blow glanced: so sudden, so thundering came the impact that Lawrence all but went down under it: and once down. . . .

The great jaws snapped one inch from his cheek, and before the Dane could recover Lawrence had seized him by the throat and fought him off. Then Lawrence set his back against the cottage wall and felt safer. A second blow got home, and spoilt Billy's beauty for ever: it laid open his left eye and the left side of his jaw. Undaunted, the Dane gave himself an angry shake, which spattered Lawrence with blood, and gathered his haunches for a second spring. But by now Lawrence had clubbed his stick and was beating him about the head with its heavy knobbed handle. Swift as the dog was, the man was swifter: they fought eye to eye, the man forestalling every motion of the dog's whipcord frame: Lawrence's blood was up, he would have liked to fight it out bare-handed. They would not have been ill-matched, for when the Dane reared Lawrence overtopped him only by an inch or so, and the weight of the steelclad paws on his breast tore open his clothes and pinned him to the wall. But Lawrence thrashed him off his feet whenever he tried to rise, till at length the lean muzzle sank with a low baffled moan.

Even then there was such fell strength in him that Lawrence dared not spare him, and blow rained on blow.--"Don't kill him," said Isabel. "Put this over his head."

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Chapter 1115 - Unfolding The Sky (III)
Chapter 1114
Chapter 1113
1112 The Fall Of West-Hill II
1111 The Fall Of West-Hill I
Chapter 1110
Chapter 1109
Chapter 1108
Chapter 1107
Chapter 1106
Chapter 1105
Chapter 1104 - A Bowl Of Noodles
Chapter 1103
1102 Born To Be A Pair I
Chapter 1101
Chapter 1100
Chapter 1099
1098 A Mountain Equalling Sky, A Stick Equalling Eyebrows
1097 You See
Chapter 1096
Chapter 1095
1094 By The Lake I
Chapter 1093
1092 Peace Of Mind
1091 Kept Heading North
Chapter 1090
1089 The Banquet III
1088 The Banquet II
Chapter 1087
1086 The Strai
Chapter 1085 - On Both Sides Of The River
Chapter 1084
Chapter 1083 - Human Could Never Predict Heaven's Will
Chapter 1082 - Stone Statues And Chicken Soup
Chapter 1081 - Crushing Rocks On The Chest
Chapter 1080 - Eradicating Buddhism (Part 3)
Chapter 1080
Chapter 1079 - Eradicating Buddhism (Part 2)
Chapter 1079
Chapter 1078 - Eradicating Buddhism (Part 1)
Chapter 1078
Chapter 1077 - Small Town, Butcher's Shop And The Knife
1076 Crossing The Great Swamp, Seeing The River
1075 The Jolly Dashing Wind Through Thousand Miles
1074 A Wisp Of Haoran Qi
Chapter 1073 - Heading for Yangzhou (II)
Chapter 1072 - Heading To Yangzhou (Part 1)
1072 Heading To Yangzhou Part 1
1071 Back To The Verdant Canyon
1070 Talisman, Tree, Bridge And The Person Attached To The Top
Chapter 1069 - Something I Had To Do
Chapter 1068
1067 One In The East, One In The Wes
Chapter 1066
1065 The National Master's Array
1064 I Retrieved What She Had Sent Ou
1063 Back To The City Of Wei
Chapter 1062
Chapter 1061 - Morning Glow, Breeze, Wild Flowers, Grass, And The Arrow
Chapter 1060 - The Dawn Over Here Is Quiet
Chapter 1059 - The Bleeding Setting Sun, And The Ink-Black Deep Ocean
Chapter 1058
1057 The Blade Longed For Blood, And I Longed For Horses
1056 The Joy Of Not Knowing The Resul
1055 Tricks Of The Headmaster And His Disciple, Backed By Chang'an
Chapter 1054 - Her Being Pursued
1053 Countless Pairs Of Hands
1052 The Magnificen
1051 The Arrow Pointed At The World
1050 The Butcher's Shop In The Town
Chapter 1049 - The Blooming Tree By The Corner
Chapter 1048
1047 Down The abyss, By The Lagoon
Chapter 1046 - Looking Up To Sky
Chapter 1045 - The Dreadful Person In The Way
1044 Sages Never Get Lonely
1043 Sacred Flame Roaring, My Body Burning
Chapter 1042 - Farewell In The Yellow Sand
Chapter 1041 - I Want To Look At The Sun
1040 Truly Alive
1039 He Was No Longer One Person
1038 Between Heaven And Earth, There Stood Tang Xiaotang
Chapter 1037 - The White Smoke
1036 Blood Phoenix Shrilling In Peach Mountain III
1035 Blood Phoenix Shrilling On Peach Mountain II
Chapter 1034.1
1034 Wind Roaring
1033 That Winter
1032 There Is Hope II
1031 There Is Hope I
1030 The Childish, The Bright, And The Ordinary II
1029 The Childish, The Bright, And The Ordinary I
1028 The Childish, The Bright, And The Ordinary I
1027 Her Faith
1026 Then Nothing
Chapter 1025
1024 The Talk He Wants With Her II
1023 The Talk He Wants With Her I
Chapter 1022 - God Is Gone, Then What About Haotian?
1021 The Academy's Matter Of Course
1020 The Specter Of The Academy
Chapter 1019 - The Way To Negotiate With The World (II)
1018 The Way To Negotiate With The World II
1017 The Way To Negotiate With The World I
1016 Let's Gamble, On Human Lives II
1015 Let's Gamble, On Human Lives I
Chapter 1014
1013 Who Fights With His Life, And Who Sells The Liquor?
1012 Happy Excursion
1011 The Treachery II
1010 The Treachery I
1009 The Messenger I
1008 Killing In The Autumn Wind And Rain III
1007 Killing In The Autumn Wind And Rain II
1006 Killing In The Autumn Wind And Rain I
1005 Every Human Being Has Compassion
1004 Killing A Virtuous Man
1003 Looking After II
1002 Looking After I
1001 The Revolution Failed
1000 In The Crystal Of Light And Realm Of Darkness, Who Is Watching You?
999 Why Sorry
998 The Sighs
997 A Sigh
996 A Man Died
995 The Last Strike
994 The First Strike
Chapter 993
992 A Young Man In Indigo Gown
991 Someone Lifted The Curtain
990 Haotian's Gift To The Human World II
989 Haotian's Gift To The Human World I
988 The Destination
987 Never Let You Go
986 Spring Breeze Turns into Rain and the Compassionate Ark Liberates All
985 My Love, How Could You Not Understand?
984 Finish The Tea Before You Ask Why
983 A Brand New Work
982 Ning Que And Sangsang Return And The Chessboard Goes Back
Chapter 981
980 Spring Thunder In The Human World, And Holding Flower In The Buddha Land
979 Merciful Ferry And Unreasonable Buddha
978 Cultivating Buddhism Part III
Chapter 977
Chapter 976
975 Cultivating Buddhism Part I
Chapter 974
Chapter 973
Chapter 972
Chapter 971
970 The Bodhisattva
969 Devils and Ghosts at the River Bottom
Chapter 968
967 Slashing Forward
966 Kill At Sigh
965 A Crow Fell on a Pig
964 Killing Buddha and the Old Pickle Jar
963 Poisoned
962 They Open the Black Umbrella But Can't Leave
961 See through the Sky and Phra Pidta
960 Striking You is Because Missing You, So it is Loud
959 The Sky Wants to Strike You
958 Shadow and Bell
957 Who
956 When
955 Return With Fruitful Results
954 Blossoms At Las
953 Hand in Hand
952 Shoulder By Shoulder
951 Rendezvous
950 It is Sword Anyway Part III
949 It is Sword Anyway Part II
948 It Is a Sword Anyway I
947 Man Must be Resolute and Broad-Minded
946 Breaking the Bones
945 A Prairie Fire
Chapter 944
943 Aversion
942 Attachmen
941 The Other End of the Chessboard
940 One Green Pear through Five-Hundred Years
939 White Tower Bursting Out of Clouds
938 Western Land, Ning Que's Bliss
937 Buddha's Palm
936 Enchanted Morning Bell and Return of Light of Buddha
935 The Way Jun Mo cultivates Buddha Dharma
934 Snow Lotus on the Cliff
933 Ugly
932 Beautiful
931 Look at the Sky From the Bottom of a Well
930 Stepping on The Mountain Towards The Bodhi Tree
929 Questioning Heaven in the Morass, Collecting Things Under the Jade Tree
928 In the Human World II
927 In the Human World I
926 Life is A Cultivation
925 On Behalf of Heaven
924 Long Time No See
923 The Mean House
922 The Mean Abbey
921 The Moon Does Wax and Wane, and People Do Suffer Old Age and Illness
920 God Gets Sick Part Ⅲ
919 God Gets Sick Part Ⅱ
918 God Gets Sick Part Ⅰ
917 I Am Not Among All Living Creatures
916 I Think I Am the Sea
915 I Want to See the Sea
914 Untitled
913 Her Image
912 Some Trivial Matters
911 Splash-Ink and Dirty Clouds
910 Cursive on the Cloud
909 Intruding the Palace
908 The Most Despicable Man
907 Those No One Could Understand
906 The Gloom Absorber, the River Crosser and the Marshmallow
905 Overestimating Oneself by the Yellow River
904 Peach Mountain in Havoc after the Snowstorm
903 From the Abyss to the Abbey
902 Into the Abyss Together
Chapter 901
Chapter 900
899 The Days in the Divine Hall of Light Part Ⅱ
898 The Days in the Divine Hall of Light Part I
897 Do You Find This Interesting?
Chapter 896
Chapter 895
894 Those You Could Never Understand
Chapter 893
892 The Feeling
891 Sangsang Has Hurt Me a Thousand Times Part Ⅱ
890 Sangsang Has Hurt Me a Thousand Times Part I
889 Asking the Heaven Part Ⅱ
888 Asking the Heaven Part I
887 Climbing Up the Peach Mountain
886 Messy to Unravel
885 The Yellow River Once Flowed
884 A Step from Jun Mo, an Arrow from the South
Chapter 883
Chapter 882
Chapter 881
Chapter 880
Chapter 879
Chapter 878
Chapter 877
Chapter 876
Chapter 875
Chapter 874
Chapter 873
Chapter 872
Chapter 871
Chapter 870
Chapter 869
Chapter 868
Chapter 867
Chapter 866
Chapter 865
Chapter 864
Chapter 863
Chapter 862
Chapter 861
Chapter 860
Chapter 859
Chapter 858
Chapter 857
Chapter 856
Chapter 855
Chapter 854
Chapter 853
Chapter 852
Chapter 851 - Before the Flowers and Beneath the Moon (Part 2)
Chapter 851
Chapter 850 - Before the Flowers and Beneath the Moon (Part 1)
Chapter 850
Chapter 849
Chapter 848
Chapter 847 - Hatred of Two (Part 2)
Chapter 847
Chapter 846 - Hatred of Two (Part 2)
Chapter 846
Chapter 845 - Hatred of Two (Part 1)
Chapter 845
Chapter 844
Chapter 843
Chapter 842
Chapter 841
Chapter 840
Chapter 839
Chapter 838
Chapter 837
Chapter 836
Chapter 835
Chapter 834
Chapter 833
Chapter 832
Chapter 831
Chapter 830
Chapter 829
Chapter 828
Chapter 827
Chapter 826
Chapter 825
Chapter 824
Chapter 823
Chapter 822
Chapter 821
Chapter 820
Chapter 819
Chapter 818
Chapter 817
Chapter 816
Chapter 815
Chapter 814
Chapter 813
Chapter 812
Chapter 811
Chapter 810
Chapter 809
Chapter 808
Chapter 807
Chapter 806
Chapter 805
Chapter 804
Chapter 803
Chapter 802
Chapter 801
Chapter 800
Chapter 799
Chapter 798
Chapter 797
Chapter 796
Chapter 795
Chapter 794
Chapter 793
Chapter 792 - Unacceptance of the Noble Kingdom (Part 3)
Chapter 792
Chapter 791 - Unacceptance of the Noble Kingdom (Part 2)
Chapter 791
Chapter 790
Chapter 789
Chapter 788
Chapter 787
Chapter 786
Chapter 785
Chapter 784
Chapter 783: Frozen (Part I)
Chapter 782
Chapter 781: Armed with Chang'an to Fight (Part I)
Chapter 780
Chapter 779: Break up with the Past
Chapter 778
Chapter 777: Divine Talisman, Pinprick, and Faded Lotus
Chapter 776: This Road Is Impassable
Chapter 775: Understanding and Defense
Chapter 774: Full Devotion Because of Sadness
Chapter 773
Chapter 772
Chapter 771: Storming into the City
Chapter 770: Chang'an, the Falling Snow
Chapter 769
Chapter 768
Chapter 767
Chapter 766: Water in the Yellow River from Sky
Chapter 765
Chapter 764: Sword Competition in the Verdant Canyon (Part 2)
Chapter 764
Chapter 763: Sword Competition in the Verdant Canyon (Part 1)
Chapter 763
Chapter 762
Chapter 761
Chapter 760
Chapter 759
Chapter 758: Second Brother's Rule (Part I)
Chapter 757
Chapter 756
Chapter 755
Chapter 754
Chapter 753: A Sleepless Night (Part I)
Chapter 752
Chapter 751
Chapter 750: The Best of the Best (Part I)
Chapter 749
Chapter 748: Cage of Ten Thousand Swords
Chapter 747
Chapter 746: The Iron Sword Wants You to Cry
Chapter 745: The Source of Calmness (Part II)
Chapter 744
Chapter 743
Chapter 742: Heavy Sound
Chapter 741: Building Fences and Forging Iron
Chapter 740: An Arrow Shower, Red Lines, and a Sword
Chapter 739: Killing Silence
Chapter 738
Chapter 737
Chapter 736
Chapter 735
Chapter 734
Chapter 733
Chapter 732
Chapter 731
Chapter 730
Chapter 729
Chapter 728
Chapter 727
Chapter 726
Chapter 725
Chapter 724
Chapter 723
Chapter 722
Chapter 721
Chapter 720
Chapter 719
Chapter 718
Chapter 717
Chapter 716
Chapter 715
Chapter 714
Chapter 713
Chapter 712
Chapter 711
Chapter 710
Chapter 709
Chapter 708
Chapter 707
Chapter 706
Chapter 705
Chapter 704
Chapter 703
Chapter 702
Chapter 701
Chapter 700
Chapter 699
Chapter 698
Chapter 697: A New Story (Part 2)
Chapter 697
Chapter 696: A New Story (Part 1)
Chapter 696
Chapter 695
Chapter 694
Chapter 693: Ascension (Part 1)
Chapter 693
Chapter 692
Chapter 691
Chapter 690
Chapter 689
Chapter 688: The Headmaster's Story (Part 2)
Chapter 688
Chapter 687: The Headmaster's Story (Part 1)
Chapter 687
Chapter 686
Chapter 685
Chapter 684
Chapter 683
Chapter 682
Chapter 681
Chapter 680
Chapter 679
Chapter 678
Chapter 677
Chapter 676: Sword of the World (Part 2)
Chapter 676
Chapter 675: Sword of the World (Part 1)
Chapter 675
Chapter 674
Chapter 673
Chapter 672: Dark Dreams (Part 2)
Chapter 672
Chapter 671
Chapter 670
Chapter 669
Chapter 668
Chapter 667
Chapter 666
Chapter 665
Chapter 664
Chapter 663
Chapter 662
Chapter 661
Chapter 660
Chapter 659
Chapter 658
Chapter 657
Chapter 656
Chapter 655
Chapter 654
Chapter 653
Chapter 652
Chapter 651
Chapter 650
Chapter 649
Chapter 648
Chapter 647
Chapter 646
Chapter 645
Chapter 644
Chapter 643
Chapter 642
Chapter 641
Chapter 640
Chapter 639
Chapter 638
Chapter 637
Chapter 636
Chapter 635
Chapter 634
Chapter 633
Chapter 632
Chapter 631
Chapter 630
Chapter 629
Chapter 628
Chapter 627
Chapter 626
Chapter 625
Chapter 624
Chapter 623
Chapter 622
Chapter 621
Chapter 620
Chapter 619
Chapter 618
Chapter 617
Chapter 616
Chapter 615
Chapter 614
Chapter 613
Chapter 612
Chapter 611
Chapter 610
Chapter 609
Chapter 608
Chapter 607
Chapter 606
Chapter 605
Chapter 604
Chapter 603
Chapter 602
Chapter 601
Chapter 600
Chapter 599
Chapter 598
Chapter 597
Chapter 596
Chapter 595
Chapter 594
Chapter 593
Chapter 592
Chapter 591
Chapter 590
Chapter 589
Chapter 588
Chapter 587
Chapter 586
Chapter 585
Chapter 584
Chapter 583
Chapter 582
Chapter 581
Chapter 580
Chapter 579
Chapter 578
Chapter 577
Chapter 576
Chapter 575
Chapter 574
Chapter 573
Chapter 572
Chapter 571
Chapter 570
Chapter 569
Chapter 568
Chapter 567
Chapter 566
Chapter 565
Chapter 564
Chapter 563
Chapter 562
Chapter 561
Chapter 560
Chapter 559
Chapter 558
Chapter 557
Chapter 556
Chapter 555
Chapter 554
Chapter 553
Chapter 552
Chapter 551
Chapter 550
Chapter 549
Chapter 548
Chapter 547
Chapter 546
Chapter 545
Chapter 544
Chapter 543
Chapter 542
Chapter 541
Chapter 540
Chapter 539
Chapter 538
Chapter 537
Chapter 536
Chapter 535
Chapter 534
Chapter 533
Chapter 532
Chapter 531
Chapter 530
Chapter 529
Chapter 528: Frosted Red Maple Leaves, Riders in Black
Chapter 527: The Shabby Temple in Autumn
Chapter 526
Chapter 525
Chapter 524: Can't Leave the Green Hill
Chapter 523: Candy of Life
Chapter 522
Chapter 521: Heaven's Orders and Darkness
Chapter 520: Gray-eyed Cub
Chapter 519
Chapter 518
Chapter 517
Chapter 516: Prophecy of the Broken Beam
Chapter 515
Chapter 514
Chapter 513
Chapter 512
Chapter 511: The Lonesome Mountain
Chapter 510
Chapter 509: Heart's Blood
Chapter 508
Chapter 507: The Black Horse Carriage with A Sunroof
Chapter 506: Disappointed before Parting
Chapter 505: Small Pills
Chapter 504
Chapter 503: Just Because of One More Look at You
Chapter 502
Chapter 501
Chapter 500
Chapter 499
Chapter 498
Chapter 497
Chapter 496: The Story of Spring(III)
Chapter 495: The Story of Spring (II)
Chapter 494
Chapter 493
Chapter 492: Tomb Sweeping
Chapter 491
Chapter 490: The Same World, the Different Thoughts
Chapter 489: Friends from the Same Sect and Enemies in the Winter Forest
Chapter 488: After Your Death
Chapter 487
Chapter 486: Lullaby
Chapter 485
Chapter 484
Chapter 483: The Open Spear
Chapter 482
Chapter 481: The Blood Flag Will Not Fall
Chapter 480: The Meeting of Iron Flowers and Iron Arrows
Chapter 479
Chapter 478
Chapter 477
Chapter 476
Chapter 475: Snowing
Chapter 474
Chapter 473
Chapter 472
Chapter 471: Blood in the Palm; People on the Bridge
Chapter 470
Chapter 469
Chapter 468: Watching the Snow
Chapter 467: Winter Solstice Festival
Chapter 466: Disabusing
Chapter 465
Chapter 464
Chapter 463: Stronger Feeling of Autumn
Chapter 462
Chapter 461
Chapter 460
Chapter 459
Chapter 458: The Fisherman and the Invitation
Chapter 457
Chapter 456
Chapter 455: Retiring and Growing Old
Chapter 454
Chapter 453: Observing the Sword for A Whole Night and Drawing it
Chapter 452: Why Fight with Someone Who Was Not in the Same State as Yours?
Chapter 451
Chapter 450
Chapter 449
Chapter 448
Chapter 447: The Time Would Come for Stars to Fall
Chapter 446
Chapter 445
Chapter 444: The Arrival of A Maiden Taoist Priest Drenched in the Rain.
Chapter 443
Chapter 442
Chapter 441: Holding Umbrella
Chapter 440: Planting Lotus
Chapter 439: Moving Trees
Chapter 438: Sword Thunder
Chapter 437
Chapter 436
Chapter 435: Blasting the Stream
Chapter 434: Torn Armor
Chapter 433: Cutting the Weeds
Chapter 432
Chapter 431
Chapter 430
Chapter 429
Chapter 428
Chapter 427
Chapter 426
Chapter 425
Chapter 424
Chapter 423
Chapter 422
Chapter 421
Chapter 420
Chapter 419
Chapter 418
Chapter 417
Chapter 416
Chapter 415
Chapter 414
Chapter 413
Chapter 412
Chapter 411: Borrowing the Sword (Part 2)
Chapter 411
Chapter 410: Borrowing the Sword (Part 1)
Chapter 410
Chapter 409
Chapter 408
Chapter 407
Chapter 406
Chapter 405: The Academy Is Always Very Polite
Chapter 404: Why Don't You Give in? (Part 2)
Chapter 404
Chapter 403: Why Don't You Give in? (Part 1)
Chapter 403
Chapter 402
Chapter 401
Chapter 400
Chapter 399
Chapter 398
Chapter 397
Chapter 396
Chapter 395
Chapter 394: The Third Book
Chapter 393
Chapter 392
Chapter 391
Chapter 390
Chapter 389
Chapter 388: Jumping Down From the Waterfall and Talking About Beasts
Chapter 387
Chapter 386
Chapter 385
Chapter 384
Chapter 383
Chapter 382
Chapter 381
Chapter 380
Chapter 379
Chapter 378
Chapter 377
Chapter 376
Chapter 375
Chapter 374
Chapter 373
Chapter 372
Chapter 371
Chapter 370
Chapter 369
Chapter 368
Chapter 367
Chapter 366
Chapter 365
Chapter 364
Chapter 363
Chapter 362
Chapter 361
Chapter 360
Chapter 359
Chapter 358
Chapter 357
Chapter 356
Chapter 355
Chapter 354
Chapter 353
Chapter 352
Chapter 351
Chapter 350
Chapter 349
Chapter 348
Chapter 347
Chapter 346
Chapter 345
Chapter 344
Chapter 343
Chapter 342
Chapter 341
Chapter 340
Chapter 339
Chapter 338
Chapter 337
Chapter 336
Chapter 335
Chapter 334
Chapter 333
Chapter 332
Chapter 331
Chapter 330
Chapter 329
Chapter 328
Chapter 327: Depressed yet Zealous
Chapter 326: Everyone Has a Chain on His Neck
Chapter 325
Chapter 324
Chapter 323
Chapter 322
Chapter 321
Chapter 320
Chapter 319
Chapter 318
Chapter 317
Chapter 316
Chapter 315
Chapter 314
Chapter 313
Chapter 312
Chapter 311
Chapter 310
Chapter 309
Chapter 308
Chapter 307
Chapter 306
Chapter 305
Chapter 304
Chapter 303
Chapter 302
Chapter 301
Chapter 300
Chapter 299
Chapter 298
Chapter 297
Chapter 296
Chapter 295
Chapter 294
Chapter 293
Chapter 292
Chapter 291
Chapter 290
Chapter 289
Chapter 288
Chapter 287
Chapter 286
Chapter 285
Chapter 284
Chapter 283
Chapter 282
Chapter 281
Chapter 280
Chapter 279
Chapter 278
Chapter 277
Chapter 276
Chapter 275
Chapter 274
Chapter 273
Chapter 272
Chapter 271
Chapter 270
Chapter 269
Chapter 268
Chapter 267
Chapter 266
Chapter 265
Chapter 264
Chapter 263
Chapter 262
Chapter 261
Chapter 260
Chapter 259
Chapter 258
Chapter 257
Chapter 256
Chapter 255
Chapter 254
Chapter 253
Chapter 252
Chapter 251
Chapter 250
Chapter 249
Chapter 248
Chapter 247
Chapter 246
Chapter 245
Chapter 244
Chapter 243
Chapter 242
Chapter 241
Chapter 240
Chapter 239
Chapter 238
Chapter 237
Chapter 236
Chapter 235
Chapter 234
Chapter 233
Chapter 232
Chapter 231
Chapter 230
Chapter 229
Chapter 228
Chapter 227
Chapter 226
Chapter 225
Chapter 224
Chapter 223
Chapter 222
Chapter 221
Chapter 220
Chapter 219
Chapter 218
Chapter 217
Chapter 216
Chapter 215
Chapter 214
Chapter 213
Chapter 212
Chapter 211
Chapter 210
Chapter 209
Chapter 208
Chapter 207
Chapter 206
Chapter 205
Chapter 204
Chapter 203
Chapter 202
Chapter 201
Chapter 200
Chapter 199
Chapter 198
Chapter 197
Chapter 196
Chapter 195
Chapter 194
Chapter 193
Chapter 192
Chapter 191
Chapter 190
Chapter 189
Chapter 188
Chapter 187
Chapter 186
Chapter 185
Chapter 184
Chapter 183
Chapter 182
Chapter 181
Chapter 180
Chapter 179
Chapter 178
Chapter 177
Chapter 176
Chapter 175
Chapter 174
Chapter 173
Chapter 172
Chapter 171
Chapter 170
Chapter 169
Chapter 168
Chapter 167
Chapter 166
Chapter 165
Chapter 164
Chapter 163
Chapter 162
Chapter 161
Chapter 160
Chapter 159
Chapter 158
Chapter 157
Chapter 156
Chapter 155
Chapter 154
Chapter 153
Chapter 152
Chapter 151
Chapter 150
Chapter 149
Chapter 148
Chapter 147
Chapter 146
Chapter 145
Chapter 144
Chapter 143
Chapter 143
Chapter 142
Chapter 141
Chapter 141
Chapter 140
Chapter 140
Chapter 139
Chapter 138
Chapter 137
Chapter 136
Chapter 135
Chapter 134
Chapter 133
Chapter 132
Chapter 131
Chapter 130
Chapter 129
Chapter 128
Chapter 127
Chapter 126
Chapter 125
Chapter 124
Chapter 123
Chapter 122
Chapter 121
Chapter 120
Chapter 119
Chapter 118
Chapter 117
Chapter 116
Chapter 115
Chapter 114
Chapter 113
Chapter 112
Chapter 111
Chapter 110
Chapter 109
Chapter 108
Chapter 107
Chapter 106
Chapter 105
Chapter 104
Chapter 103
Chapter 102
Chapter 101
Chapter 100
Chapter 99
Chapter 98
Chapter 97
Chapter 96
Chapter 95
Chapter 94
Chapter 93
Chapter 92
Chapter 91
Chapter 90
Chapter 89
Chapter 88
Chapter 87
Chapter 86
Chapter 85
Chapter 84
Chapter 83
Chapter 82
Chapter 81
Chapter 80
Chapter 79
Chapter 78
Chapter 77
Chapter 76
Chapter 75
Chapter 74
Chapter 73
Chapter 72
Chapter 71
Chapter 70
Chapter 69
Chapter 68
Chapter 67
Chapter 66
Chapter 65
Chapter 64
Chapter 63
Chapter 62
Chapter 61
Chapter 60
Chapter 59
Chapter 58
Chapter 57
Chapter 56
Chapter 55
Chapter 54
Chapter 53
Chapter 52
Chapter 51
Chapter 50
Chapter 49
Chapter 48
Chapter 47
Chapter 46
Chapter 45
Chapter 44
Chapter 43
Chapter 42
Chapter 41
Chapter 40
Part 39
Part 38
Part 37
Part 36
Part 35
Part 34
Part 33
Part 32
Part 31
Part 30
Part 29
Part 28
Part 27
Part 26
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Part 16
Part 15
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Part 13
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