Volume 1, Chapter 27: Severing Ties!

Yinzhen, left in the outer room, clearly felt slighted, and his expression darkened. After finishing a cup of ginseng tea, he still saw no sign of Huizhu emerging. Realizing the situation, he nonetheless clung to his pride, and with a feigned, sullen air, he waved away Axing and the others.

All the doubts that had once piqued Peng Yizhen’s curiosity now had reasonable explanations—the most logical explanations imaginable.

"Oh, it’s just been so long since I last visited; I was afraid you and Grandpa Yan would blame me! So, I bought some things to offer a preemptive apology." Clearly, these were gifts meant for a patient, yet she claimed they were for an apology. She lied without a blush or a stutter, as if it were the absolute truth.

Before long, four six-sided imperial crystal cups were brought out. Suxin filled each one, and the four of them began to play cards.

Huangfu Song immediately introduced his subordinates to Liu Tianhao one by one. Liu Tianhao issued a military order to He Miao, stating he would select ten thousand men from the eighty thousand soldiers of the four Northern Army divisions. He was permitted to choose the quality of the troops and the accompanying officers, provided he did not select the Northern Army Commander or the four division colonels.

With a thunderous crash, the entire backyard of the Songhe Pavilion shook. Yi Bu and his followers appeared in an instant, the Medicine King Cauldron having smashed a deep crater into the ground.

"Zhongkang, Ju Yi, you two go out and take a look as well!" Liu Tianhao instructed Ju Yi and Xu Chu.

Raising his wine flask for another hearty swig, the leader waved his hand and shouted, "Lead the way! Brothers, we’ve got business!" With a heavy slap, he slammed the wanted poster onto the table, embedding the entire paper into the wood.

"This pebble is truly bizarre. I am at my wit's end. I think the only one with any hope is Xiaoqing, as he possesses metal-element true essence, the only one whose nature won't be entangled with the pebble's." After his failed attempt to collect it, Xu Da lost interest in the stone.

She lived as if in a dream, and he was the dream-weaver dedicated solely to her. When he told her he had a way to boost the strength of the Gu family and completely reverse their decline, this beautiful dream finally reached its zenith.

With fine wine to drink, Han Xin was in high spirits and summoned his old acquaintances from the Northern Army, Tian Shi and Zhao Wuji, to join him in enjoying the libations.

"Enough, let us not speak of the past." With a calm, unruffled demeanor, the Dragon Emperor spoke with casual ease, his attitude toward Lin Tiancheng no longer carrying its previous overbearing arrogance.

"Eighteenth Miss, Eighteenth Miss, are you finished yet?" Douhua squeezed out from beside a dough-figurine stall, tapping Gu Eighteenth Miss on the arm while holding up a vivid, lifelike rabbit worshiping the moon.

"Are we to act like elegant scholars admiring the moon and listening to springs? I don't think I’ve reached that level of lofty, ethereal detachment!" To liven the mood, Yan Wan stuck out her tongue and made a funny face.

The child's grandmother specifically asked ZZZ’s mother, "Where did you buy those shoes?" Then she went to the shop and bought an identical pair.

She despised herself in her heart, yet found his daily role as her dedicated chauffeur to be performed with meticulous care. To say there was absolutely no meaning behind it seemed like a stretch.

On the more intense side of the battle, under the fierce siege of three demonic beasts at the peak of the Immortal stage, the white-clad elder, who possessed the cultivation of the early Great Vehicle stage, was on the verge of defeat. As for those experts at the Immortal and Primordial Spirit stages, they stood even less of a chance.

Originally, he had thought little of it, but after meeting Zhi Yu, he realized he could not afford to be careless.

Jiaodong Commandery was located at the easternmost end of the Qi territory. In the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor, General Wang Ben conquered the Qi State, and the Qin Dynasty divided the Qi lands into seven commanderies: Linzi, Jiaodong, Langya, Jibei, Donghai, Dongjun, and Xuejun. Jiaodong Commandery was one of them, with its seat established in the great city of Zuoqiu.

Bo Yin, with a cold expression and his head slightly bowed, extended his slender, fair fingers to straighten the cuff of his white shirt. After a long moment, he asked nonchalantly, "Is it you, Uncle?" His tone was exceptionally distant.

Qin Tian let out a long whistle and drifted away. It was time to wander through the prosperous regions of the Yingyue Continent.

Two terrifying energies struck Ling Xiao simultaneously, then surged entirely into his body.

Si Junhao really wanted to rush over and warn Ai Mu, but he simply walked over, closed the door, and went to bed.

"A giant that cannot use light rays is just a slightly larger ordinary human, isn't it?" Daiku Daichi breathed a sigh of relief.

I learned later that this man was not incapable of love, but rather did not know how to love, and understood even less of the word's deeper meaning.

The assassination of James Garfield was still causing a stir. The moment George Dewey heard the news, he sought out Li Mu—not to ask for advice, but simply out of sheer anxiety. In times like these, those with close relationships must huddle together for warmth; no one knew what they would have to face next.

"Then I must ask, how did you critique him?" Qu Kai’s tone shifted.

Whether she lived or died, or which man she slept with, or whether she drank or took drugs—what did that have to do with him?

The crowd of kneeling people broke into an uproar. Yin Gezhi’s expression also sank, and he looked up at the head eunuch without reaching out.

No sooner had Zhou Tian finished speaking than a rumbling, earth-shaking sound erupted from the nearby dense forest.

"Boom!" The vehicle exploded on cue, but the people inside were unscathed; they had leapt out of the car before the blade’s energy even arrived.

Mu Yi sat cross-legged, first adjusting his breath and stabilizing the somewhat volatile origin energy. It seemed these three battles had yielded considerable gains, allowing him to grasp the power of the High Human Realm with greater precision than before.

Song Yuqing could not help but think of Lin Peng. She thought that if only Lin Peng could come, then after the convoy’s victory, they could go together to the top of the Qilian Mountains to watch the snow and take in the vast scenery of the Great Northwest.

Zhou Shan and Hong Ling were not particularly worried, for they knew how formidable Mu Yi’s mental energy was. It would have been truly strange if he had so easily perished under the desperate struggle of that wolf.

His palms were already suffused with the swirling aura of the Gale Fist. As a seasoned fighter, he knew that between life and death, one could unleash the greatest potential.