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Chapter Forty-Two: The Immortal in Wine

    

fully embodied in the series of attacks just now."One penny short, one's stomach growls.""Having no two ounces of silver, trapped between advancing and retreating.""Three pennies short, caught between...till here."“Where were we” it asked.Jiang Wang bowed and said, "Regarding the clues about the Chapter of Nine Phoenixes, I am waiting for your instructions."He wasn't lying, so he said it confidently....