The girl in front of her had her head lowered—Yuan Yuanyuan thought she might be crying. It was the first time Yuan had met someone who cried faster than she did, and for some reason… that made her feel a little sheepish.Compared to that, her own inexplicable tears earlier didn’t seem like such a big…

Yuan Yuanyuan drifted between sleep and wakefulness. She vaguely knew she was dreaming… but since nothing too scary had happened in the dream so far, she just kept her eyes shut and didn’t bother trying to wake up. She dreamed of a small corridor… The edges of the dream were misty and hazy, yet oddly,…

Yuan Yuanyuan lay on her bed flipping through the comic over and over, trying to recall when that scene had supposedly taken place. For moments where she smiled or spaced out, it wouldn’t be surprising if she forgot. But crying? With all due self-deprecation, Yuan Yuanyuan would like to point out: the last time she…

Yuan Yuanyuan kept reading with a growing sense of anticipation in her heart. She used to read a lot of shounen battle manga… her favorite parts were always when the main character smacked people down in epic face-slapping moments. Even though Monster Journal’s main character was technically Fan Ning, in Yuan Yuanyuan’s eyes, Yuan was…

When the first meeting ended, Yuan Yuanyuan downed the tea in front of her in one gulp and stood up from her seat. On the human side, a few staff came over to clean the table; on the monster side, a flood of little demons rushed in to help the big demons tidy up their…

It had only been two days since the monsters arrived at Nanchun Restaurant, and already they’d left a deep impression on the humans. Just days earlier, the temperature in the surrounding mountains had begun to warm—but after the monsters showed up, the entire mountain turned icy and snow-covered again almost overnight. Liu An sat on…

“Red Sand Well… what’s that supposed to be?” The nearby girls, who’d been eavesdropping for a while, still couldn’t quite make it out. They wanted to keep listening, but the two middle-aged men suddenly stopped talking and didn’t continue. The first day, both the monsters and humans didn’t make any moves—most people were resting. Yuan…

That night, Yuan Yuanyuan pulled an all-nighter cultivating, lying in her newly assigned room. It was much more comfortable—significantly better than the one upstairs. This new room had air conditioning, a TV, and even a computer. Lying on the bed, Yuan was stunned to discover—seriously?—there was even working Wi-Fi… At first, she sprawled out on…

After finishing her meal, Yuan Yuanyuan sat blankly in her chair. People around her were gradually finishing their meals as well. The balding man surnamed Tang and the lady surnamed Li both stood up and addressed the crowd with a few more remarks—probably a cue to begin leaving. Yuan Yuanyuan stood up and joined the…

The monsters and the human delegation—Taoist sect representatives—were all seated in neat rows. Loose cultivators and ability users from various tribes were seated off to the side. Military personnel ringed the venue from outside, and many of the weaker loose cultivators had been blocked from entering. Only the more powerful ones were allowed inside with…