Chapter 61: Reluctance

Gu Lingyi finished loading the bullets and, with Huo Qi's assistance, pressed the magazine into the grip of the firearm.

She asked out of routine: "Have you ever played with this before?"

For some inexplicable reason, Huo Qi shook his head without a moment's hesitation. "No."

"No?!"

Inside the parked red Ferrari, Qin Xiao sat in the driver's seat, his listless expression instantly perking up.

He handed his phone to Yu Liang sitting beside him. "He has the nerve to say no! When we used to compete in shooting—"

"Recount!" In a split second, Su Yi pulled that fierce flame back into his own sea of consciousness.

The powerful aura of an esper radiated outward, catching Jane Ya's attention. Yet the surroundings were filled with ordinary people; no one else could manage to calmly notice these subtle shifts in energy.

"Come, come, come. Let me assign the tasks first. Setting up a formation suitable for the Mystic Leaf Vine is no simple matter!" Without waiting for Tang Yu to steer the conversation off track again, Ye Feng produced a stack of white paper, revealing lines of meticulous handwriting inscribed upon it.

As if awakening from a dream, he recalled meeting his master at the Black Dragon Pool, encountering his first immortal cultivator there, and later, in order to save those villagers who had brutally beaten him, he unhesitatingly borrowed his master's power to finally slay that immortal cultivator, though he himself nearly died from the backlash his body could not endure.

The Yin-Yang roulette continued to absorb the phantom shadow of the jade seal, while Lian Sheng did not stop, relentlessly bombarding the space where the jade seal rested with the Five Elements Divine Thunder. Chanting another incantation, a wisp of primordial chaos energy overflowed from the Yin-Yang roulette, swirling around the multi-colored jade seal as a distinctly unique radiance leaked out.

A tremendous explosion instantly shook the heavens. Every sound—screams, roars, shouts, and cries—was utterly drowned out by the overwhelming roar of the blast.

The blue blade aura magnified infinitely in Chen Haoran's eyes. Finally, when it was less than thirty centimeters away, the Nine-Turn Golden Silkworm hidden within Chen Haoran's dantian seemed to sense his crisis. Its milky-white body began to wriggle slowly, and at its jointed segments, rings of golden light radiated a sacred brilliance.

More than a dozen wind blades adorned with cyan veins fluttered around Mingxin. Such terrifying wind blades could typically pierce entirely through the bodies of four or five snow wolves before exhausting all their force.

"Very well. I am a guest here, and I shall follow the local customs in everything!" Lian Sheng said indifferently, slowly removing the red kasaya from his shoulders. Secretly channeling his spiritual power into his palms, he quietly wiped away the name embroidered on the back, then handed it to Lama Qamba. Wu Du did likewise, stripping off his kasaya and tossing it to him.

To their astonishment, the pitch-black substance continuously welling up from the lake water turned out to be a layer of grease. Moreover, this grease was teeming with constantly wriggling things—none other than the parasitic gu worms that had appeared in Laowa Town.

However, aside from directly propelling him to the tenth tier of Immortal Transformation, Ao Qing also yielded a treasure that came as a complete surprise to Liu Yi.

With a loud thud, He Donglai collapsed straight onto the deck, his eyes wide and pupils dilated, frozen in a look of sheer terror, dying with his grievances unavenged.

As a celebrity, Qin Lang possessed an official Weibo account and an official Tieba forum. Although those were managed routinely by his agency team year-round and he never paid them any mind, they nonetheless belonged to him.

The most dazzling star of this gala was Qin Lang alone. If one were to name a couple more, they would undoubtedly be that middle-aged man and Director Jack.

"What normal superior-subordinate relationship? Who knows what the two of you were up to inside the carriage," Annie continued, displeased.

Jiangya Cable Television shared a similar model with Hong Kong Television, both being family-owned enterprises, whereas Hong Kong Cable Television was publicly owned, meaning it faced virtually no pressure at all.

Suddenly, everyone's gaze shifted abruptly toward me. As for myself, having just stared at those crawling bugs inside the corpse-fisher's mouth, my scalp was still tingling fiercely. I hadn't noticed when I first went into the water, but now I realized that the water had been almost completely overrun by those pitch-black creepy-crawlies.