Chapter 44: Persuading Dao Zhenbang

Hong Daniun seized the moment and put forward his request:
"Zhenguo, Zhenhual. There is something I'd like to ask the two of you to help me with."
Dao Zhenguo and Dao Zhenhual exchanged glances, thinking that the Deputy Factory Director had just given them promotions and raises, only to immediately follow up with a favor to ask.
They suddenly felt a bit uneasy. It wasn't that they didn't want to help, but rather that they were just ordinary workers with no other skills besides manual labor. What kind of favor could the Deputy Factory Director possibly need? If it were simply assigning work tasks, he wouldn't use the word "help."
So they asked cautiously:
"Director Hong, the two of us are just workers..."
"I'm telling you, this is so boring," Erbang couldn't help raising his volume, almost shouting as if he were looking for a megaphone.
As for the comments praising Mi Niang, she was overjoyed, feeling as though someone shared her resonance. Mi Niang sometimes wanted to pin the comments praising her to the top, but later thought it would be too ridiculous.
Wu Que turned his head to look, only to see a huge, crystal-clear stone mountain in the distance, shining with brilliant seven-colored radiance under the dim twilight of the sky.
Unconsciously, she had walked a bit further, getting closer and closer to the center of the forest, yet Hatsune remained entirely unaware.
Puffs of white clouds rose from the lake, gathering toward the illusion, and then coalesced behind her, gradually transforming into a massive palace.
"Bullshit, keep dreaming. Still the same thing—if you want me, bring a million over." Peng Ying also smiled. Having said that, and perhaps realizing that Erbang had no intention of providing dinner tonight, she packed up her things by herself and quietly left.
The rest didn't even need to think; activation of teleportation initiated. With a flash of lightning, they dashed out of the protective barrier and disappeared into the portal following Bulguru.
"Then why haven't they conquered the Thirty-Three Heavens and dominated the Void Strongholds, instead of each guarding their own territory?" Diablo asked with puzzlement.

Li Shi wanted to use the Drunken Immortal Tower to entice Cui He into a date with him, but he never expected Cui He to be a regular there. Seeing Cui He reject him, Li Shi felt somewhat disappointed, took a breath, and said nothing.
Zhou Jing had spotted the scout long ago, but finding a scout here was completely normal. It would be stranger if Zheng Bao didn't send scouts, so he didn't pay it much mind and simply continued leading his army toward Crow Ridge.
"That's simple enough. You guys, bring over a few sticks of incense," Tang Chunyu instructed the men beneath him.
After the three figures appeared, an overwhelming and destructive aura of malevolent gloom shook the heavens and earth, soaring into the sky.
As for the identity of a Heavenly Punisher, Jin Dabao accepted it calmly. With this status, he could walk unhindered through Heavenly Punishment City.
He saw figures in black appearing in the surrounding void, rolling like dark clouds rising across the horizon, pressing in menacingly.
Gasps of astonishment rose one after another. A dignified first-tier Martial Lord had actually been knocked down in a single move by an eighth-tier Martial Master. If word of this spread, no one would ever believe it.
The year Leng Shuiyao breathed her last, Leng Bailifeng was eight years old. At that time, there was no such thing as a City Lord's wife in Viewing Sea City; City Lord Luo Ai struggled to maintain it himself, and his circumstances were extremely difficult. Only much later did Jin Guangjian come here and marry Luo Ai.
"This gentleman didn't know; the ignorant are not to be blamed," An Huailin said with a faint smile, signaling Luo Ren to stop there.
Then he heard the old gentleman say, "I do remember that horse—an old horse, not very gentle in temperament. As for the person, perhaps she was disguised as an old grandmother?" With that, as if he heard the sound of Tang Lilichuan walking over, he turned back to look.
Having made up his mind, he abruptly stopped in his tracks, gripped the sword he carried with him tightly, and suddenly whirled around to sweep backward.
After dealing with the incompetent fool beside him, Zhang Jiaming felt terribly anxious, but since the battle was not yet over and the overall situation remained unsettled, he could not come up with any brilliant strategy for the moment.
"Hehe, if you don't try, how would I know if I succeeded in refining it? What if it's ineffective?" Long Ming laughed.
His thoughts were dragged back to his lingering confusion, making him forget about Qianhuang, who was still being dragged along the ground like a mop.就这样,三人来到了羽宿宫中。 (This sentence seems duplicated/fragmented in source, translate meaning: Just like that, the three of them arrived at Feather Quarters Palace.)

With Tai Dan'ao's Heaven-tier cultivation, carrying such an item with him meant that practicing for a single day was equivalent to four or five days for an ordinary person—truly a heaven-defying treasure. It was extremely rare; it is said that there are fewer than a hundred such pieces in the entire Beidou Dynasty, all condensed from the dawn of heaven and earth.
"Dad, I'm begging you, I'll kowtow to you, I'll kowtow to you..." Guizhen kowtowed one after another in the snow.
Seeing Li Yilan's desolate and lost expression, a trace of eerie amusement flashed across Nangong Meining's eyes, only to vanish instantly in her distinct black-and-white eyes, leaving no trace behind.
That the director couldn't immediately give Shen Xinyi an answer was something she had anticipated from the start. But she still held onto her persistence.
Fan Xueyi took the clothes and turned around somewhat self-consciously to start dressing. However, with one hand missing, it was truly inconvenient, and her movements were extremely clumsy as she tried to put them on.
"Correcting coordinates?" Hu Shuntang didn't understand how he could correct them without using a geomantic compass, and the others, aside from Zang Qingyi, were equally baffled by this.
Only then did Yin Ling remember she hadn't eaten anything for many days. Prompted by Long Yu, she suddenly felt overwhelmingly hungry, and taking the food Long Yu gave her, she began to eat voraciously.
Fu Yan also felt a pang of heartache. Although Leng Yihe had paid for it, precisely because of that, the clothes shouldn't have been cheap, and they were very comfortable for him to wear.
Li Si was slightly startled, never expecting such a thing to happen, and at this moment felt extreme astonishment.
As for the Blood-Eyed Snow Ape, some of its eyes held joy, while others showed extreme fury. The two extremes diverged greatly, leaving Lin Ying quite puzzled, unaware of what kind of misunderstanding lay within this.
Fortunately, having been an official for so many years, he still possessed some composure. He managed to wait until the end of the workday, declined two dinner invitations, and then returned home feigning composure, preparing to make a few phone calls to inquire about the situation when Liu Bin triumphantly returned.