Volume 1, Chapter 48: Defender of the Realm, Emperor Xu

A single day came to an abrupt end, and the battlefield was mostly cleared. The scarred wilderness would have to leave its rejuvenation to the passage of time.

Just then, a military warship slowly descended to the ground. Mu Fan stepped out from it, followed by an officer in military uniform.

Looking at all this, he could not help feeling somewhat anxious.

From just these three parts of the quintessence, Xu Ruogu deeply perceived the profound intent of slaughter within them. Merely through deduction and evolution, a surging sense of killing erupted in his heart.

The master of the Azure Heaven Sect cast his gaze upon Xu Ruogu’s face, a flash of appreciation for talent and regret crossing his eyes. Immediately after, the oppressive aura belonging to a mid-stage Liquid-Returning cultivator burst forth like a volcano dormant for ten thousand years, targeting Xu Ruogu alone.

The Alligator Dragon's strength was actually not low at all; it was at least no weaker than Monk Sha's, and perhaps even stronger. It was only because Tang Seng's strike was too sudden and it had met the attack in haste that its ending was so tragic.

Meanwhile, inside the city, under the soothing and organizational efforts of the brothers, the order of the citizens who had fled inside gradually stabilized, and they began to walk in an orderly fashion along the main streets deeper into the city.

However, it would take a certain amount of time for the newly captured warships to form a combat capability. Moreover, according to the agreement, the Heavenly Heart Legion had taken twenty-five captured warships to supplement their own military strength.

The dozens of people embroiled in the fierce battle were all paying attention to this area. The moment Shadow Origin vanished, their gazes had already swept across all directions.

Yet when he saw people weeping and crying before him, his nerves seemed to be touched, stirring him into motion and prompting him to utter words of concern and comfort.

As if setting off a chain reaction, the other seed pods also fell into the soil one after another and exploded, sending seeds scattering in all directions. The neural worms hidden among them seemed to sense the presence of Hanyan, the only living creature here, and lunged forward eagerly, propelled by the momentum of the explosions.

The more Theodore thought about it, the colder he felt. Sixteen years ago, Byron had perished in a fire, and even his corpse could not be found. Afterward, in order to maintain their dominant position in the pharmaceutical industry, the four major families kept his death a secret without announcing it, substituting Byron with a remarkably similar impostor.

Meanwhile, the attacks of the eleven Heavenly Dipper Generals finally erupted completely, accompanied by the final transformation of the battle formation.

Looking at Xuanyuan, Fan Qin felt as though he were looking at its former master, Tianxuan, and an inexplicable warmth welled up in his heart.

With Xiu Niang and Old Man Lin taking the lead, the atmosphere instantly became both sorrowful and full of passion.

After crushing the black jade pendant that originally sealed Moyu, the compressive force became even more violent.

Axi naturally would not miss any important information in their words. According to what they meant, Su Muyun was locked away in the back courtyard.

Hearing Ning Que suddenly bring up this matter, a wave of discussion broke out among the audience again, while Jingxuan and other high-ranking officials of the Celestial Valley who had come to attend the ceremony furrowed their brows for a moment, unsure of what Ning Que meant.

Yet in this brief moment, Yi Xiaoyao’s cultivation had temporarily reached the Second Tribulation, granting him the qualifications to do battle with a powerhouse of the Third Tribulation.

In the past, as long as he did not remarry, there was still a glimmer of hope. But now, with a remarriage imminent, that hope was already terribly slim.

After a long while, Nie Tian finally calmed down, exhaled a deep breath of stale air, and understood everything in his heart.

Originally, when these people first entered the secret realm, they numbered well over one hundred thousand, but now only eighty thousand remained. Yet even at just eighty thousand, this vast and mighty crowd was still astonishingly large.

Murong Qianqian half-embraced Liu Yi, her face full of helplessness. In a situation like this, even if Lu Wuhai were present, he would likely struggle to come up with a good countermeasure, because this was an internal problem within Liu Yi himself. Short of entirely crippling Liu Yi's cultivation and allowing his Yin-Yang primordial source energy to leak away completely, there was no other way.