Chapter 42

Such an opportunity was once in a millennium. Cai You, Inspector Li, and General Qian—the three Xiantian masters of Zhending Prefecture—had gathered in one place. This was precisely the moment for Ying Quan to make his move.

Zhang Zhongjian did not dodge or evade. He employed the internal energy technique of the mud-ox entering the sea. The wine in the bowl was drawn toward his mouth like a silver thread, swallowed with a whale-like gulp. Immediately afterward, snapping his index and middle fingers together, he flicked the wine bowl away, directly facing Li Jing, and abruptly spat out a stream of water, turning the wine he had just swallowed into a hidden weapon aimed at Li Jing.

Gu Dayong had originally been an official of the Brocade Guard, and was later transferred to the Eastern Depot as a Chief Inquisitor of Punishments. In terms of rank, he was second only to the Grand Eunuch of the Eastern Depot. Therefore, although holding merely the post of a thousand-man commander, he sat right beside Liu Qiao, even closer to the center than Xu Xianchun.

Could those crude methods of her elder sisters really hatch a Pokémon egg? Senju expressed great astonishment.

A flash of cold light swept past. A head filled with terror and swollen cheeks flew into the air, landing at Jiang Wangyue’s feet, staring up at him with an expression of hatred and malice.

Even though he appeared to have the upper hand, Thor still shrank his body, looking for a way to burrow into the ground and make his escape.

"Alright, stop looking, it's my phone ringing!" Abadi Everfa said with a gloomy expression as he looked at the crowd. Then he took out his phone and glanced at it.

"Now's our chance!" The shout of Solitary Howling Frost in the Woods rang out. Every single Necromancer player in the adventure group cast Corpse Explosion at the exact same time. The sound of the explosions was deafening, and the bodies of monsters flew wildly across the sky. Only the formidable vitality of Epic-grade monsters could have created such a bizarre spectacle before them.

"Please invite the Duke of Qi'an into the hall to speak." Watching the retreating figure of Xin Yi as he followed Pei Yun out of the council chamber, Yang Guang instructed Li Jing thoughtfully.

Shortly after, a series of cracking and snapping sounds echoed. Ying Quan knew instinctively that the person who had entered was smashing the vessels on the offering table.

An impulsive fool, she waited to watch the joke unfold, while her stepsister beside her wore a pair of eyes filled with chilling malice.

The entire imperial court belonged to the Emperor. Even if the Emperor wished to deal with an official, he still needed a legitimate pretext. As a crown prince who had yet to ascend the throne, where on earth did he get the authority to dispose of the Emperor's court ministers? No matter how one looked at it, the Crown Prince had no reason to deliberately frame Ding Zi with a fabricated charge.

He was constantly weighing the options in his mind: which was more important to him—the nuclear weapon development program and the two hundred and ten billion US dollars, or the lives of his wife and son?

However, earlier Xuan Mingzi had seen that the dragon pearl beneath the fire dragon's neck remained completely undamaged. It seemed it was not something forged from divine spirit, but rather had lost its restraint when the fire dragon's primordial spirit shattered, transforming into a pool of blood that fell into the blazing veins of earthly spiritual fire below.

The two legal advisors were named Yu Decheng and Zhang Sye. Their names sounded steady enough, but they were extremely slick and smooth-spoken, rattling off endless sets of phrases. At that moment, beauties serving wine had also taken seats beside each of them, and Yu Decheng frequently raised his cup, finding all sorts of excuses to toast Xia Han.

"Just wait. Before you make a move, this Demon King will pick you off one by one. When that time comes, I will have you kneel before me and kowtow!" The dark red-haired man revealed a ferocious smile.

However, the energy of the energy snake had already reached the realm of a Tier Five Great Perfection. How could it be resisted so easily?

"The men I sent just now successfully retrieved what the boss wanted, but an accident happened along the way, and the item was snatched back by that guy named Qin Long!" Benson said thus.

Mo Chenhai didn't say a word as he stepped forward, took her hand, led her straight out of the house, and headed directly toward the flower garden behind.

Imperial Physician Yu did not press the matter further. He stepped out of the bedroom and asked Chisu to bring out all the prepared medicines, explaining their medicinal properties and methods of administration one by one. Wen Yu stayed by the bedside to keep watch, while Mother Zhang, harboring her own thoughts, took the opportunity of boiling tea to go out and listen to what Imperial Physician Yu and the others were discussing.

Furthermore, with the addition of Yao Yiyi, a Tier Two powerhouse, Yi Fengleng was eager to give the enemy a massive surprise.

Liang Chen fiercely pointed at Tu Youming, and then pointed at Qian Miaomiao. Yet when Liang Chen looked toward Qian Miaomiao, a smile hung on her face while an indescribable look of guilt quietly flashed across it. She turned away very awkwardly, deliberately avoiding Liang Chen's direct gaze.

Deep within the tunnel, thick smoke had already filled the air. Someone had blown up and collapsed that section, making it completely impassable.

The leadership at headquarters still cherished him greatly and approved his request without hesitation. It was both a desire to temporarily remove him from a right-and-wrong-filled place and a hope that he would gain further seasoning through experience.

As Chu Feng's strength grew increasingly formidable, his various talents gradually came to light. His standing in Elder Fu's heart rose continuously as well.

"What's going on? Where is Dalong? Where is Dalong? You listen to me..." Sun Yuanzheng's brow was knitted into a deep knot resembling the character for "river." He tried his utmost to maintain the composure of an outstanding commander who remains unflustered in the face of major crises, but upon hearing the word "ambushed," anxiety still inevitably gripped him.

With a full head of silver hair and a white robe dotted with red plum blossoms, Shen Yifeng paused for a moment, then continued walking up the stone steps. Looking at that retreating figure, he showed not the slightest bit of regard for Xu Xiake.

Chu Feng's performance metrics barely met the standard, and that was only the result of Bookkeeper Cheng exhausting every possible means and exerting full effort to suppress him.

Along the city exit road where the mist was gradually clearing, Li Tianxia caught sight of the sesame cake shop on his left hand. He thought to himself that if a man who eats cakes manages to eat his way into the seventh stage of martial arts—the Mortal Transformation realm—and win over that woman Ye Liuxian of Western Shu, even if he ate his way to looking like Maitreya Buddha, what of it?

None of the people in the room had expected Sun Qing to act this way; every single one of them felt the change in him.

Soil fertility, water sources, pest infestations, soil compaction, the difficulty of root absorption, soil pH imbalance... and so on and so forth. Every single difficulty implied an enormous amount of labor. Moreover, even if one managed to overcome most of these hardships, the harvest from newly cleared plots of land would remain quite limited for years, or even decades.

"I heard that the reinforcements from the Hidden Mist Village are about to arrive. As the local hosts, how can we not welcome them properly?" Yun Kong leaned against the door frame and said softly.

"Heizi, go search over there. If there's no one, we'll wrap it up." After thoroughly stripping Peter of all his valuables, the men spoke to the bandit who was searching the grass.