Volume 1, Chapter 38: Bewilderment
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This was going too far. It was plainly extortion and blackmail. Rogue Da was so furious that his teeth chattered, yet he did not dare lose his temper. All he could do was swallow his anger along with his broken teeth.
It was rare for Yuan Chen to take the initiative to thank her. The vexation in Lan Qingcheng’s heart vanished in a smile, and she completely ignored even the honorific with which he addressed her.
Across the entire Thirty-Three Heavens, only the Sword Mound of Ten Thousand Swords Manor possessed an artificial environment capable of producing a mineral vein imbued with sword attributes.
Although the Ghost Puppet Sect specialized in refining puppets, it had never used either the living or the dead as materials. As a result, it enjoyed a good reputation among the various powers. Yuan Chen had once borrowed a battle puppet of one of the Four Divine Beasts from the sect master of the Ghost Puppet Sect. Although he had obtained only the Vermilion Bird battle puppet, he had nevertheless gained a glimpse of the sect’s profound foundations.
Logically speaking, this was the best opportunity to strike at the Nameless One. He was deep in thought, and his attention was no longer fully concentrated.
Several young people moved through the crowds of villagers, spreading the news that the village tyrant who had lorded it over the local community had been arrested by the police and was now a dead tiger, no longer worth fearing. They urged the villagers to take action and voluntarily expose the crimes and evil deeds committed by the tyrant and his criminal wife.
Along with his shock, Qin Beichuan felt a surge of resentment. The Seven-Colored Cloudstone and the Godhood Scroll were both indispensable to ascension, so why had Fang Lin, who merely held the Seven-Colored Cloudstone, been blessed by it and become a god, while the Qin family had not even received a single ray of seven-colored light? This was utterly, damnably unfair.
Now that the urgency had passed, Li Wuyou began to fear the heights again. Using his childhood sweetheart as a foothold, he lowered himself considerably before finally letting out a quiet sigh of relief.
The two of them were not discussing anything together. Ji Wuyan had sent the Shadow over because he needed the other man to do something for him, ensuring that nothing could go wrong.
As Wu Yuhuan spoke, she placed five pieces of food into Yu Fan’s bowl in succession, giving away nearly half the dishes in front of her.
Moreover, transmigrators were generally people blessed with astonishing luck. After all, if someone with insufficient fortune were to transmigrate, they would have been torn to shreds by spatial storms. How could they possibly have crossed over successfully?
This sort of floating was obviously less nimble than moving with two legs, but in an environment of sheer rock walls—and with the handicap of having lost both legs—it was still barely workable.
“All right, let’s go!” After checking carefully and making sure he had not left anything behind, Shen Yibin patted the back of the Fireproof King and headed toward the city at an unhurried pace.
He had once followed the Fourth Hokage across the world and tasted every delicacy under heaven, but he had never eaten buns as delicious as these.
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Everyone’s eyes nearly fell out of their heads. No one had expected Shen Yibin to improve each time. According to the previous calculations, the force of his punch this time had already reached 1.76 times his body weight. With formal training, exceeding twice his body weight would be a piece of cake—hardly a problem at all.
They gathered in small groups, some clasping their hands and bowing in greeting, others beaming as they chatted animatedly. The scene was extraordinarily lively.
“Your Majesty, could you stay tonight?” Li Xiuning gazed at Liu Bian with anticipation and longing.
Good grief, had it overworked itself? Its appearance reminded Shen Yibin of Xu Ye waking up after a night of debauchery; its movements and expression were practically identical.
Ye Fan shook his head. Although he had always been together with Ye Jie, he knew very little about him. He knew nothing of the man’s origins or inheritance. The only thing he did know was that Ye Jie seemed to cultivate the Western Emperor Scripture as well—a fact he had sensed only because he himself cultivated the same scripture.
“Damn it, after doing so much work, this is all we get to eat? Does the foreman have no humanity?” Although they knew it was all staged for the camera, every netizen who saw it was indignant.
He was not certain whether Shi Yongguo would agree, because according to his method, the casualty rate would increase dramatically.
“Big sister, are you missing Mother?” a timid child’s voice whispered softly beside her.
Empress Jiang looked up in astonishment. A tall man stood in front of her, taking the punch head-on in her place.
The two sides continued arguing, and then Prime Minister Turtle suddenly sensed a powerful wind rise within Fusu’s dream. It blew him straight out.
Su Youling gazed at his reflection in the bronze mirror and smiled faintly. He walked directly over, opened the door to the bathing chamber, and then swiftly shut it tight behind him.
Among the several city lords whose strength matched his own, only Mu Chaoyang, lord of Chaoyang City, stubbornly opposed him. At the critical moment, however, Zhou Tian of Thousand-Leaf City and Granny Yinhong of Flower-Folding City suddenly and unequivocally threw their support behind the Seventh He, crushing Mu Chaoyang’s momentum.
“It’s like this. Didn’t I just say that I signed a contract? So I took a thousand strings of cash and bought a mountain. Yes, that’s exactly what happened.” Ling An repeated himself, nodding with great satisfaction.
At most, it was only the size of a fist, yet it had already defied fate and transformed her talent and potential beyond recognition.
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All she had to do was keep walking forward, and she could leave the northwest, return to the capital, go back to Yunze City, or travel to anywhere else she wished.
“I never imagined the infighting within Purple Feather Textiles would be this serious. There’s no need to take it to heart at all. If things continue like this, the company will collapse on its own within a few years!” Pan Mingyi was an exceptionally perceptive man. He had some acquaintance with Xu Bing, and by combining that with the current state of Purple Feather Textiles, it was not difficult for him to reconstruct the whole story.
Leilei was already laughing so hard that he had collapsed over the table. Hearing the argument in the conference room, Lingling also came over to watch the spectacle, curiously sizing up the tall, thin Gao Qi, whose hair was as disheveled as a haystack.
In fact, because the Northern Pacification Office had appeared, the villagers had heard the thunderous crash but were afraid of bringing trouble upon themselves, so no one had come to investigate. The only person who hurried over was Auntie Zhou, who had just finished feeding the chickens and ducks at home and was about to take a bath and change her clothes.
With the submarine’s assistance, He Yong avoided the pirates several times and finally reached the waters of the Huaxia Kingdom safe and sound a day later.
“First move: Phoenix Fireline.” The enormous phantom of a phoenix opened its mouth and spat out a beam of flame.
As He Yong directed the hovering vehicle to evade the encircling men and prevent them from surrounding it, he also searched for a way to escape.
Qin Mengyan gave Qin Hao a cool glance without saying a word. Qin Hao coughed awkwardly twice, then took Qin Mengyan’s arm and led her outside.
The instant the barrier shattered, the vast energy within my body seemed to find an outlet. It rushed straight toward my dantian, where it gathered into a vortex of magic power.
Little did he know that after his figure vanished through the entrance to the third checkpoint, the “Big Rock” swayed slightly, revealing a face as dark as ink.
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