Volume 1, Chapter 48: Yuchi Gong and Sun Simiao!

With a single word of command from Zhu Youjian to execute, Lu Yangxing brought down his blade. A flash of cold light later, Han Tong's head rolled onto the ground. Inside and outside the teahouse, an instantaneous, deathly silence fell. Everyone stared in shock at the scene before them, their hearts filled with fear and awe.

"Aren't you going back?" Murong Xuan took a sip of honey water, observing her younger brother, who showed not the slightest intention of returning.

"What if Lu Mingchuan chooses my sister in the end... what will you do?" Lin Wei blinked, asking him as if she were completely serious.

The others were overwhelmingly delighted with this outcome. One must know that for most other teams, the majority of their funds were spent on medicinal herbs; consequently, the vast majority of teams had to rent and cultivate their own medicine fields within the academy.

The Barbarian Princess, previously deemed utterly useless, had just demonstrated immensely formidable power. More importantly, if she were the one in charge, she would not have done any better.

Yet Fu Ye relished it deeply. He glanced down, tightening his grip and causing Cao Ruoxi to frown slightly with her lips parted.

Xibai instinctively shifted inward. Before she had moved even a few steps, the man's long arm reached out and scooped her into the crook of his arm.

Cao Yimo's hands remained tightly clamped onto the armrests of her wheelchair, her fingertips long since turned pale, though a faint smile still lingered on her cheeks. Upon closer inspection, however, one could easily tell that her smile was somewhat stiff.

Suddenly, she noticed the man's movements slow down. When she raised her head to look at him, his lips were already pressing down upon hers.

He had heard every word of their conversation. Although it lacked any major focal points, he could still vaguely sense the deeply buried heartache that Ling Luoqi had harbored for so long.

The moment she fell upon the mattress, Lin Mubai abruptly held her breath. A weight not her own immediately pressed down upon her. In the split second their eyes met, she suddenly caught a glimpse of deep obscurity hidden within those hollow pupils.

The lightning bolt, having already had a portion of its electrical energy absorbed by the power grid, was partly repelled by Du Tie, yet its trailing arc still grazed across Du Tie's body.

One gold coin for a single card—this was precisely ten thousand times the cost of purchasing through the system. Moreover, with so many gathering players, combining their totals should yield a vast number of cards.

Ye Mei and Madame Wang were dragged away. When Ye Qi was shockingly met with the realization that his entire family was locked up together, he felt his life had lost all hope, turning his heart as cold as ash. At the same time, a morbid psychology sprouted within him; people in dire straits always loved to drag someone down with them so that the road to the netherworld would not be lonely.

Although Xie Banggui had been riding at a gallop the entire way, he did not forget to gather intelligence regarding the Zheng family. The messenger golden eagles trailing closely behind his horse flew back and forth in a continuous stream, steadily delivering all manner of intelligence directly into Xie Banggui's hands.

As the group chatted while moving forward, they suddenly stumbled upon a precious find—a mineral that appeared exceedingly rare.

"You..." Yue Jin was taken aback, instantly attempting to retract his long spear. However, Yan Yan's reaction was too swift; Yue Jin only had time to give a slight outward flick to barely dodge the blow, yet the razor-sharp spear tip still sliced an opening across Yan Yan's neck, sending bright red blood gushing forth.

At that very moment, Andy's gaming bracelet transformed into human form and snatched the lollipop right out of Andy's hand.

Chen Yu's final remark plunged Pang Yuntian into silence as he reflected on whether he truly was such a person.

"What is the situation in Wuji City? And Jizhou?" As soon as he sat down, Dong Zhuo asked with a trace of urgency.

"The northwest? Northwest of Suzhou—isn't that Nanjing?!" Fang Qingyun swallowed hard, disbelief shining in his eyes.

Hearing Elder Ban's words, Bai Yixue could not help but laugh out of sheer amusement. To think this old fellow would jump to such conclusions, actually twisting a master sword-smith into an old lecher obsessed with beauty.

Pulling open the car door, Han Xiaoxue froze for a moment before a smile bloomed across her face as she amusedly looked inside the vehicle.

The citizens of the capital, with doors and windows tightly shut, had assumed the turmoil would last at least until daylight. Yet before long, the sounds of battle gradually subsided. Unable to curb their curiosity, some trembling residents cracked open their doors and windows, eager to catch a glimpse of the latest developments in the chaos.

"Hey, hey, what kind of look is that?" The Red-Haired man's mouth twitched frantically. He merely knew Luffy's lineage and was administering a precautionary warning in advance.

"Young man, don't listen too much to other people's denials. Persist in what you want to do; you are who you are. No one understands you better than yourself, and don't let others define you," Lin Juan said with a smile, his tone carrying a note of admonition.

As for the Bat Man's side, a real confrontation was underway. J and Bailey had already vanished from sight.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang. Far away in Chuncheng, Li Jing was calling after months of silence.

After this batch of twenty-eight main warships successively entered service, the large shipyards across the United States began constructing a new batch of primary capital ships. This time, however, the Americans simultaneously laid down only four Lexington-class aircraft carriers and four of a new class of American super-dreadnought battleships.

Although the traversal ring did not explicitly state that the absorbed object was a cruise missile equipped with a warhead, Lin Dahai could be virtually certain that the spacetime tunnel had indeed absorbed the uranium-bearing nuclear warhead.

He had originally assumed that this weightless zone harbored only catfish monsters, never imagining there would be another species closely resembling them—possessing weaker combat power and no long whiskers, yet featuring a protruding, nozzle-like mouth capable of spraying green toxic gas to form highly corrosive and venomous miasma clouds.

"As long as it doesn't incur a loss, that's fine." Li 雪's eyes lit up. Having heard from Luo Wanmei that Moke was not only the jade-gambling consultant for Luo's Jewelry but had also profited tens of millions from jade gambling that very morning, she was relatively inclined to trust his words.

Touched by Jiang Xingfen's visit to her late at night, she naturally served him wholeheartedly and catered to his desires with fervent devotion, allowing him to attain the most unbridled release and guiding him through a ruthless, overwhelming conquest.

Upon receiving Bridget's orders, Austro-Hungarian naval fleet commander Rustid and Ottoman-Turkish naval fleet commander Ismail immediately led their two nations' warships to follow right behind the Russian and Italian navies, veering sharply to the right.

When the Spirits manifested in this world, they generated violent spatial tremors that inflicted catastrophic hazards—this was an indisputable fact. However, once the Spirits fully materialized in this realm, they could effortlessly control the fluctuations of the spatial tremors, using their own willpower to influence them.

Inside the Constitution Hall of the Xinhua Palace, at the Imperial Headquarters' conference room, the emperor's dragon-carved and phoenix-embossed throne at the end of the heavy oak table remained vacant.

Consequently, her dissatisfaction was redirected entirely toward Li Yalin, if only because he happened to be the sole enemy present here.

To curry favor with Yang Jinsi, this fellow had utterly discarded all bottom lines, gradually degenerating into the likeness of a meddling neighborhood gossip.