26 Yurong

"But why are we planning for something a month away? I'm not misreading this, am I? The date is set for the eighteenth of next month," Iris said.

Such a shrew needed a taste of severity to be properly cowed. Fixing his gaze on the mahogany coffee table, he stepped forward and slammed his palm down. With a thunderous crack, it shattered instantly.

Xia Tian had initially worried that his parents were tired and didn't want them to cook, planning to order takeout instead. But Xia Dashan and Lin Shufen insisted on cooking at home, saying they felt truly satisfied only with home-cooked meals.

"This jerk isn't listening to a word I'm saying at all..." Chen Junyi’s eyebrows twitched rhythmically.

Before he could ponder further, a sharp pain flared in his ear. He had been grabbed and hauled up by it. Before he could even pull up his trousers, which had slipped down to his knees, he was dealt a fierce kick to his bare backside. He stumbled, nearly falling, leaving a muddy footprint on his plump, pale buttock.

Upon hearing this, Yun Zhaoding gasped, never expecting the origin of this battered wood to be so extraordinary.

Li Er, his beard bristling like halberds, and the Clan Head of the Array Masters, Chen Hugong, whose body was covered in fissures, stared in shock as Shentu’s martial soul transformed into a black ray, hurtling toward the eye of the Yin-Yang fish.

"Rest assured, I said if the competition were to be on something you two were better at, I would choose those specific fields. But a competition is meaningless without a wager. If I win, you release the captives! How about it? Do you dare?" Liu An looked at the two with absolute confidence.

He Yue had just woken up when the phone in his pocket rang. It seemed there was work to do; he wondered who was calling.

What to do? Refusal was no longer an option, and he couldn't think of a good solution no matter how hard he racked his brain. Then, a "knock, knock, knock" sounded at the door.

The elderly shaman sitting there turned his head, his deep green eyes suddenly rippling with waves of emotion.

For no other reason than that Linda felt "Verly" was truly too similar to their leader.

Thinking was one thing, but after glancing at Liu Yan, who had completely passed out, he could only shake his head helplessly.

"Senior Brother, I really need the 'Eternal Heaven' herb to save my life." Ge Dali writhed in agony, his hands pounding the ground as he struggled against the excruciating pain within him.

"Fleeting years, empty shadows forming pairs; carved railings and jade steps shine in the moonlight," an ethereal voice echoed in mid-air.

"Old man, could you keep it a secret that I was here?" A-Zhen asked with a smile instead of answering.

"Is there a reward?" That was what she cared about. If they intended to hone them through a trial like this, there had to be at least some incentive. After all, if they died, they would return to the outskirts of the city, and it would be very difficult to catch them again once they blended into the Hungry Ghost clan, unlike the ritual, from which escape was impossible.

"Boss," Bob said, looking at the oversized cotton coat he was wearing, somewhat hesitantly, "I feel just like a clumsy, big grizzly bear."

"This..." For a moment, everyone hesitated. To not save him was to watch their comrade die, but to save him was a risk none of them could afford to take.

Glancing at the Black Dragon, Cai Ju uncharacteristically didn't retort. Instead, she nodded gently, shot a glare at Cai Qingyun, transformed back into her original form, and returned to the sea of flowers.

That night, Jiang Fan and his two companions went directly to a nearby eagle nest to rest, a spot from which they could perfectly observe the situation at the Eagle Tribe.

Ying Fei had already crushed the seventh-grade Yellow-tier Dao talisman in his hand, which crackled and hissed as it released a blinding burst of silver sparks.

"Hahahaha, of course it has no healing effect when used on you!" The Flame Sparrow's voice rang in Ren Xiao's mind. "Why not on me?" Ren Xiao countered.

"The dirty and exhausting work only falls to us; that's the helplessness of our position." Chen Longxiang sent this message, telling me not to be anxious and that there would always be a way.

Once the secret realm opened, he would seek the inheritance himself. As long as he didn't compete with Jiang Fan, there was nothing to worry about.

Everyone present could tell what underhanded tactics these children were using, but their elders were too embarrassed to intervene.

Zhang Chunhua dared not delay any longer. She rubbed some dust onto her hands, tightened her waistband, and found a slightly more comfortable position to embrace the stone. She exerted all her strength; instantly, her face and neck turned bright red, and her veins bulged.

Li Changsheng and his two companions were very happy at this moment. Seeing Li Changsheng's state, the two from the Hidden Sword sect were also quite furious; a strange emotion flickered in the eyes of the Hidden Sword practitioner, but he suppressed it, never letting it show.

Just like that, as Renault and Murong Yan walked into the restaurant, they discovered how lively this "World's Number One Tower" was.

A massive aura swept through the surroundings. Trees, stones, and mountain peaks were crushed into fine powder by the dragon's breath, its might, and the immense body of the great serpent; the scene was truly terrifying.

Yunwu dealt the cards, while Yulu laid them out for the Shi family. Both of Shu Yuan's maids were attending to her; compared to Lady Mu, the Shi family member had more standing before Shu Yuan.

"Wife, why don't we come back tomorrow?" Liu Hua’s father, seeing Yang Guifang’s pitiful appearance, felt a surge of compassion.

Fire Wolf corpses continued to fall, and streams of pale blue light were instantly absorbed into Renault's Divine Fire Token. As he swung his heavy sword, more and more Fire Wolves fell.

Did this not mean that Grandmother tacitly allowed the Master to know these things, but she was unwilling to tell him herself, and thus had to borrow the Aunt-Grandmother's mouth to inform him?

After all, it was her first time meeting the Empress Dowager as the Crown Princess. It was inevitable that she would dress carefully. Xiao Yingdi still wore clothes in simple, elegant colors, which looked quite dignified. As she left Yi Mei Pavilion, she happened to run into Feng Xue. This was their first reunion after a long separation.

Operating on the spirit of "treating a dead horse as if it were still alive, and then treating the live horse until it becomes dead," Wang Yitian gritted his teeth and used his Steal skill on the back of the Bone Dragon.

The Prime Minister was not worried that the Qiao family would renege on their debt; after all, in the Lingyan Kingdom, the Qiao family could be said to be wealthier than the nation itself.

Jin Peng retracted his fist and said to the stunned bodyguards, though he himself did not understand why his strength had become so great. Could it be that the gene modification in his body also had the effect of enhancing his physical constitution?

Zheng Gan's expression shifted; he seemed about to lash out but held it back, finally saying, "You wait here. If Gang Leader Ma refuses to see you, there is nothing I can do." With that, he turned to give a few instructions to the guards at the door. The guard nodded repeatedly and bolted off somewhere, while Zheng Gan walked straight into the gatehouse and disappeared.