Chapter 25

“Dead… not possible! Thank you, big brother!” Duan Ziyu saw that Zhang Yuchu was also injured and realized it was because he had rushed over to help him. Otherwise, even with the Golden-haired Lion King’s power, it wouldn’t have been enough to harm Zhang Yuchu.

He instructed the coachman to turn the carriage around and take another route to the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion. Cheng Qing looked at his mother with great confusion. In his heart, his mother was warm-hearted, so why was she unwilling to intervene in this matter?

The smile at first was faint, then it spread like ripples on water, growing deeper and deeper until his chest heaved and trembled, releasing a muffled laugh.

As the carriage gradually disappeared into the night, Wei Mingzhu’s cheeks instinctively turned cool. Zijing was leaving, and she ought to feel happy, but why did her heart feel so heavy? Turning around, she saw a figure standing near the gatehouse, those eyes deep as a dark pool fixed intently on her.

“Lord Ye, since he is your student, he should know you are injured and must not worry about matters outside. You have already stopped the rebels; the royal capital is now safe. All you need to do now is rest well,” Zhaoyang said expressionlessly, sitting on the Grand Tutor’s chair nearby.

“Different from the ghost carriage?” Xiao Lingfeng murmured to himself, shaking his head, deciding not to think about it for now.

When he came running over to persuade him, his impassioned and eloquent expression surely didn’t consider the hardship of secretly following behind.

People often lie, but why are some lies easily seen through while others are believed? It is because the liar mixes truth with falsehood, three parts truth to seven parts falsehood, making it difficult to discern reality.

Jun Wuxie’s lips slightly flattened, his icy eyes scanning the emperor’s sweat-drenched face.

Han Guang’s pace paused for a moment in the light, waving away those who wanted to follow before entering the inner chamber alone.

For thousands of years, the cohesion and centripetal force accumulated by the Guiyuan Divine Sect have far surpassed any other sect.

Young Master Long looked up to see the referee stepping onto the arena. The next event would be the referee publicly announcing the start of the match.

In that instant, Zhou Lishui was stunned; she hadn’t expected the Mysterious Spirit Evil Lord to be eliminated by herself like that. “Old thing, you died so easily—doesn’t that make it too cheap for you?”

Damn it, Yan Yan was already so pitiful, yet these beasts still bullied her. Anyone encountering such cruelty would surely lose their mind.

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Lin Jing’s eyes were tightly shut as he lay on the old wooden bed, his shirt pulled aside to reveal the right shoulder, pierced and bleeding.

“Our matter… has been exposed…” Gu Zhiqiu uttered words that made Chen Wanrou gasp in alarm.

The bald man stopped less than three meters in front of Nie Rong, then advanced with heavy steps.

Seeing the bull charging, Qin Lingxue hurriedly halted. Her dark face was set, her blood-red eyes swept the scene for a moment, then a burst of true energy flew from her palm and struck the bull’s forehead.

With a single step forward, Zhang Yu’s gaze locked onto two separated Bloodthirsty Earth Demon Vines. His fists roared simultaneously like twin iron hammers, heavily striking the vines. One punch almost shattered one vine into a pile of rotten wood.

Clearly, a world with a diameter of one thousand kilometers still fell far short of the limit this protoplasmic core could endure.

If someone sneaked in to replace it after I left the shrine, I was standing right at the shrine’s entrance giving a speech—with my current martial skill, even a dog trying to slip in would hardly escape my notice.

The Azure Emperor frowned, pondering in his heart how to counter the moves of the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Sovereign.

Skillfully bypassing the protective formation, Zong Wang took advantage of the moonlight to flee afar. After half an hour, he stopped atop a high hill.

As for selling their bodies, when they came to their senses, considering Qing Luan’s resolute nature, even in death, she would never allow Shen Kunpeng to insult her.

No matter how much one guards against external threats, a traitor within the sect is the hardest to defend against. The Xuanyuan Sect’s own members sabotaging the sect was the last thing Sun Yangsheng wanted to see. He immediately ordered Tao Xin, responsible for political affairs, and Tan Hanyuan, in charge of law enforcement, to launch an investigation.

Lin Qiuliu and another arrived at the Lin family gate but were met with no one. Their faces instantly turned cold and grim.

The fateful rat had avenged its grievance and was quite happy, squeaking wildly as it jumped back and forth on Xu Mu’s shoulder.

An hour later, the situation in Beihai was fully under control. Over 1,900 awakened cultists were slain. Twenty thousand impoverished villagers, who had been misled by the Awakening Sect, each received a measure of grain and a hundred copper coins before being sent home. However, the mastermind behind the chaos, Jia Xu, remained missing.

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Within the grand formation, the Qin man’s heroic spirit surged to the sky. His battle intent coalesced and astonishingly transformed into a towering giant with three heads and six arms, thousands of feet tall.

But eggs, mung beans, and licorice can detoxify poison—these are old folk remedies passed down for centuries. The Eagle Claw King specifically inquired about this; was there some special meaning behind it?

She was immediately enchanted, unable to utter a word, only nodding blankly as he smiled with a charm that could topple cities and nations.

If the opponent was a man, he could handle it easily. With his temperament, if someone publicly tarnished his school’s reputation, he would never let it go. The gentlest resolution would be to sue the offender.

Finally, the essence of the problem was grasped. No matter how foolish Zhao Jingdong was, he couldn’t fail to notice anything. He understood because Crown Entertainment shared the same conditions.

“The Dragon Phoenix Society! Why does that name sound so familiar?” Zhao Long suddenly furrowed his brow and spoke.

“Sister Meng Yan, I really know I was wrong. Please don’t be angry, okay?” Xiao Ling once again acted cute and apologized, hoping to win a smile from the beauty.

“Regret?!” Xiao Jin’s eyes widened, his arm suddenly tightening as if he wished to strangle Ye Mu into two halves.

Then Han Mi received the support vote from her admirer Ouyang Ming. The balance was suddenly broken, and Feng Rui immediately turned his gaze to Lin Anran.

“Master… aren’t you going to see Wu’er?” Wu’er had awakened. Wasn’t this Master’s greatest wish all these years? Now that Wu’er was awake, why was his reaction so indifferent?