Volume One, Chapter 40: The Suspicious Sachet

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Yet Yang Xuan was timid and irresolute by nature, hardly capable of shouldering any great responsibility. Within the Heaven-Through Sect, she was little more than a useful ornamental figurehead.

At that moment, the sound of footsteps outside the Xuan Courtyard drew steadily nearer. Qing Shuang’s spirits lifted, and she thought to herself, Could it be that Nanny Gao has changed her mind and come back?

Mo Ruzhi was so anxious because she feared that Consort An would assign her some other duty. Otherwise, even if she grew three heads and six arms, she still would not be able to cope with everything.

If everyone brought out every available method, relied on their own specialties, and unleashed the Bankai of their own powerful Soul-Cutting Swords, most captains certainly would not think themselves inferior to Kenpachi Zaraki. But a battle fought through such pure, direct confrontation was another matter entirely.

Scene after scene from the past flashed through Qidie’s mind. She had never realized that she and Qiyu Han had endured so many hardships together. Whenever she was in danger, it was always Qiyu Han who stepped forward to save her. Even when the two of them had fallen from a cliff together, he had been wounded, yet he had still protected Qidie without fail.

The dry, howling wind drove grit as sharp as blades across the ground, while the enormous sun overhead radiated scorching heat without pause.

The more Mo Ruzhi thought about it, the more something seemed amiss. When the Empress had brought Qiu Qingshuang back from the Dowager Empress’s palace that day, she had refrained from announcing to the six palaces that this woman was Qiu Qingshuang, whom everyone believed dead, lest Consort An and the others cause trouble. The matter would only be revealed to the six palaces after Qingshuang had been arranged to attend the Emperor’s bedchamber. Thus, Mo Ruzhi had no idea that Qiu Qingshuang had returned.

To date, the Red Bull Group has invested a total of thirty-three million euros in developing its youth academy system. It has gradually established fourteen high-quality squads ranging from the Under-8 to the Under-23 age groups, and many of those players have already become starters for the German youth national teams in their respective age categories.

“Haha. In that case, I shall take my leave first.”

Xixiang Guankyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief before departing.

“What delicacy could be so rare? Dragon meat, perhaps, if it is truly that precious and sought after?”

Qian Xiangkun was thoroughly unimpressed.

Several ministers seated nearby trembled when they heard this, spilling wine across the table. Their cups fell to the floor with a series of clinking sounds.

As I said earlier, the evidence he had produced could not prove that Shen Qing had placed the toy in Tongtong’s room.

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Several men’s expressions changed. Lin Hu was one of Brother Du’s three foremost experts in this district, and his fighting style was exceptionally vicious.

It went without saying that without all those ways of exploiting perks and freebies, making money would have been impossible; no one could even say how much they would have lost.

At first, she had only intended to use them as inspiration. But those authors were so gifted, and their content was so captivating. She… surely copying just a little bit would not cause any serious trouble, right?

Apart from that—if this world truly resembled the world known as Witchmoon City, then those so-called “Heavenly Dao modifications” might not be fabricated after all.

Several men in white coats rushed out immediately afterward. One of them, a bespectacled man, seized Jiang Bei by the collar.

The feeling of seemingly knowing the truth while having no idea what had actually happened was unbelievably agonizing.

The bizarre object resembled a mask and carried an icy, sinister aura that made even Su Li’s heart pound with fear.

Confronted with Ouyang Na’s aggressive opening move, Qiao Yu showed little emotion. She merely smiled calmly.

However, the Ninth-Heaven experts present remained unmoved. That sword was useful to those of the Eighth Heaven, but of little value to them.

“Your Highness is merciful!”

All the generals bowed. Amid the chaos of the Four Seas, they knew very well how much courage it took to say such words.

The minotaur stared at Fang Ao in horror, its heart roiling like a storm. Was this truly a cultivator in the early Golden Core stage?

After spending another day at the Shen residence and gathering everyone together, Yan Shiyi drove a secondhand nine-seat Wuling Rongguang into the Shen family villa.

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The Triangular Eyes man was kicked so hard that he grimaced in pain. Yet when he glanced at Meng Tingting, his eyes flickered several times before he began crying out and begging for mercy.

The two ninth-level Martial Ancestor experts were far too powerful when they joined forces against him. The fact that he had lasted this long was already remarkable; it would not be long before he was slain.

It turned out that the man in black was Hu Ying. The assassination of Shen Yu had been entirely her own idea. She had suggested it to Tan Shuang, but Tan Shuang had remained hesitant, so Hu Ying had acted on her own. She had secretly waited at the Invincible Whitening and Beauty Salon, then, after seeing Shen Yu arrive at Zhang Xue’s villa, covertly laid down a killing formation.

Then Xuanzi Tian let out a grim laugh, and ten Black Lotuses of Heavenly Fire and World Destruction thundered toward Ling Tian. A vast and terrifying aura flooded heaven and earth, making everyone’s scalp prickle.

“My word, this is practically a divine artifact!”

Yan Shiyi tried placing various magical instruments and medicinal pills inside. When he tested it with his finger, the pills and instruments automatically sprang back out. There was no need to reach inside and fish them out, making it both convenient and practical. He also did not have to worry about the contents being contaminated, and its storage capacity was surprisingly large.

The speaker was an old Daoist seated at the far left of the chairman’s platform: Daoist Longya, the head of Dragonbeard Abbey. Members of his sect had also died, so he harbored deep resentment toward Yan Shiyi. In his agitation, he nearly revealed as well that Qin Danqiu was to be the final prize.

“Big brother, what kind of move is it to stick both legs into a spear? Is it some method of cultivating martial arts? Can you teach me?”

Ning Xin’er asked curiously.

Yang Hao was right. Vulture really was a war fanatic, utterly incapable of settling down. Hound was his complete opposite, yet the two of them happened to get along best of all.

In her previous life, it had clearly been Cheng Xu who had humiliated her, yet Cheng Xu’s mother, Madam Yuan, had claimed that she was the one who had seduced him… The people of the second and third branches all fell silent. Only her maternal grandmother had never asked her a single question from beginning to end, yet neither had she ever doubted her.

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