Volume 1, Chapter 46: The Househusband's Manifesto

Beneath the seemingly warm and harmonious housewarming banquet, undercurrents surged menacingly.

However, Hu Weizong did not come in person this time, as he seemingly had pressing matters to attend to, so he sent Park Meixuan to accompany Li Hao instead.

From the moment Wu Yu first tried to prevent other disciples of the lower sects from entering the pit, Leng Lingqiu had found it somewhat peculiar. Yet, since he fobbed her off with the excuse that the spiritual energy within the passage was unstable, she had pressed the matter no further. Later, Wu Yu changed his tune, claiming it was to safeguard the secret realm's secrets for the sect. That reason was still just barely acceptable.

Now, as it turned out, the Emperor and Li Shishi had no interaction whatsoever, but rather, he himself had been ensnared. Having witnessed Li Shishi's beauty with his own eyes, Zhao Gou finally understood what it meant for a lotus to emerge from the water, and realized that a beauty who could topple kingdoms and cities was truly the peer of legends like Xi Shi.

After all, given the players' current attributes, clearing the Hard-mode Fire Demon dungeon would be exceedingly difficult without an assassin to draw the aggro.

His hair, which was originally only speckled with gray, had now turned entirely snow-white, without the slightest trace of any other color. The skin on his face was as parched as cracked farmland, covered all over with tiny dark spots. His cheeks were deeply sunken, and his eyes were a turbid, smoky yellow.

Money could not be spent carelessly. Since they hadn't started making money yet, every single coin they shelled out meant one less coin in their pockets.

Everyone knew that the wealthy folks from the city were extravagant with their spending, especially in this impoverished backwater. If they made a fuss before those two individuals walked away, perhaps finding the old woman pitiful, those rich folk would just pay off the disaster for her to clear their conscience.

Li Hao was genuinely terrified. After what happened last time, he had been left with a suffocating sense of dread; how could he ever tolerate Lin Ya leaving him again? What if something else went wrong?

Those words were like opening Pandora's box, causing Mayor Tu's expression to turn ugly in an instant.

Clutching his wound, he shrieked miserably, "Who is it?! Get your ass out here!" After swallowing a medicinal pellet, the bleeding stopped abruptly, but what had been severed could never be reattached.

Guchen's composure instantly filled Yan Yi, who stood beside him, with a sense of awe bordering on worship. Just moments before, she had been thoroughly startled by Jun Hui's chilling aura, yet Guchen, whose cultivation level was several tiers lower than her own, possessed such steadfast, pillar-like poise that she truly looked at him with entirely new eyes.

Ye Fengling and the others, hovering high in the air, shuddered simultaneously, their figures rapidly darting toward the rear.

After having her sit on the edge of the spring-cushioned stool, his large hand smoothly pulled a nearby chair over, placed the medical kit he was carrying onto it, and flipped it open.

In less than no time, he charged into the main courtyard's reception hall. At that moment, Chen Yuan and Chen Shu were accompanying Chen Rang on either side, sipping wine and chatting spiritedly with him.

The reason Guchen was able to discover it today came down to a half-closed glance right as he was startled awake; under normal circumstances, it would have been exceedingly difficult to notice. Besides, the longer he stayed within the temple, the more evil and lifelike his recurring nightmare became. Only starting from that day was he able to be frightened awake—something that had never happened before.

Yet, the most infuriating thing was that she had indeed been caught red-handed this time, leaving her completely helpless to construct any defense for herself.

A blossom blooming in the center—their situation hung by a thread. Once Gu Xunyi launched her attack, He Qingfan would undoubtedly launch a backlash at the very first moment. By then, caught between attacks from the front and the rear, they would surely not last long before being overwhelmed by the simultaneous onslaught of the two powerful figures.

Driven by the so-called ambition to strengthen the giant hyena clan, he forced the female he loved—Sweet Sound—to submit to accepting another female.

In less than a minute, Jiang Chengce fixed the burst water pipe—or to be precise, he stopped the pipe from spraying water.

Within Hua Wuque's mind, he had condensed a sword using the power of the Demonic Pupil, which, when paired with a Soul Strike, was more than enough to send Xun Gou to his death.