Volume 1, Chapter 61: Ris's Confrontation

Huang Jianghui had originally only attended the reception day as a senior official to lend some prestige, acting solely upon Memet's warm and earnest invitation.

"I agree," an old man among them suddenly spoke up, his voice jarring and harsh.

Yan Kai nonchalantly scooped his outstretched hand through the air, brought it up to his nose, and took a deep breath.

Having taken a kick, Pei Yan instantly loosened his grip, clutching his stomach with a pale and sickly complexion.

The couple stared fixedly at the pointer in the center of the roulette wheel as the grand prize television set swept past the pointer round after round.

They had also assumed that Zhao Jie had broken through to the Origin Dan Realm, but upon closer inspection, they realized that these two humanoid figures, which looked identical to him and resembled spiritual energy avatars, were somewhat abnormal.

He Zhiqian fell silent, lost in thought. After a long while, he nodded and said emotionlessly, "I understand."

Lin Yuxi swiftly switched her phone call with Lin Kaixiong to speaker mode.

Shi Yu shuddered all over. It was precisely because next year marked the grand tribute selection that the Shi family was in such a desperate rush. They could not allow Shen Xiyan to stand out, which was why they went to such lengths to target her without sparing any effort.

"I am not lying to you!" After a moment of hesitation, Zhao Xiao'an sat down beside Chen Zihan.

Yet, never in her wildest dreams did she expect that before she could even utter a word, Huo Dongcheng had already pulled his arm away from her embrace, casting a gaze as sharp as a razor blade coldly upon her.

It was not until after the three successive disasters erupted that their research yielded a definitive conclusion: these monstrous insects possessed a primeval matrix, and until that mother entity was destroyed, the calamity would never truly end.

Teacher Li offered a few words of instruction outside the cafeteria, mostly concerning how to learn table manners from her, how to eat properly, and how not to waste food.

Over the phone, the other party explicitly demanded that Tulu immediately raise five million US dollars and wire it into a designated international account.

Living with a venomous snake—even though its fangs were pointed outward and it willingly placed its most vulnerable spot right into your hands—let one ask their own conscience: how could a snake handler in this world truly claim they had never felt fear? No matter how obedient the serpent might be, whenever the handler caught a fleeting glimpse of its inherent ferocity and cold cruelty, there would always be a chilling moment of goosebumps.

"Tyrant! To actually... sob! To actually... Have you no shame?" She first let out a sharp, phoenix-like cry, followed by a bitter and reluctant scolding, yet her body made not the slightest movement of resistance.

Of course, had Shen Shi told him the truth—for instance, that he hadn't raised the horse himself, but rather that the beast absorbed the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth—such a profound secret would have caused the old man to worship Shen Shi like a founding patriarch.

In other words, had he been as reckless as he was back in the old days, he likely would have found himself facing a police manhunt. After all, he was no longer the person he used to be. Back then, he genuinely believed that repaying one's debts was an absolute law of nature.

From this deduction, it was highly probable that the source of the anomaly was the long-closed Gate of the Demon Realm... beginning to loosen.

And how had Wu Daozi managed to acquire Xu Wuyou's aura? The aura of a powerhouse at the ten-step quasi-sovereign realm was not something one could simply obtain at will.

Along the way, Shen Shi ran into Meng Longtan. However, due to the heavy rain, they merely exchanged a brief greeting and a nod before hurrying off in opposite directions, promising to gather once the rain stopped.

That nonchalant expression of having completely cast aside thoughts of life and death was genuinely rather absurd, yet what happened next proved somewhat unexpected to Fang Yuan.

Naturally, to appease Daniel, Rody selected twenty robust young men from among the fief's subjects to be placed under Daniel's command as his attendants, assisting him in garrisoning Luming Town. Though not part of a standing army, these men would receive a handsome monthly stipend after following Daniel, a prospect with which they were quite content.