Chapter 54: Someone Is Always Bearing the Weight Forward

Biting her lip, Ye Ling met Jing Chuan's sharp gaze. After hesitating for a moment, she turned and left.

"Third floor, Urology Department of Jianmin Hospital. You'd better bring a few more men..." With that, Xia Fan recounted the whole incident.

Suddenly, a figure appeared right before his eyes—a black-haired youth who seemed to have gone completely mad. Facing the charging armored bear, he threw his fist forward to meet it head-on. This was nothing short of courting death, the bandit leader thought to himself.

"What kind of nonsense are you babbling about? I don't understand a single word. Now, let me make this clear to you: there are some things you simply cannot do." Too lazy to continue arguing with him, Xia Fan sent him crashing to the ground with a single kick.

Ning Hao watched with a bewildered expression, staring at Ling Kun as if he were looking at a demon king. This kind of approach wasn't about subduing the demon army at all; it was sheer self-destruction.

The Sixth Demon Emperor had a good number of his bones shattered by Qin Xiao's punch and was heavily injured. Yet, facing Qing'er at this moment, he still managed to fight her to a standstill.

Just the dodging alone consumed a tremendous amount of time in this battle. Before they knew it, another half-an-hour had slipped away.

From the other police officers, Xia Fan learned that her name was Shangguan Xue, a notoriously cold and stunning beauty in the police force. Well, he had certainly experienced it firsthand now.

Liu An was utterly speechless. Just as he finally had a chance to let loose and vent, the Imperial Noble Consort had to go and interrupt him. A trace of displeasure flickered in his heart.

This was precisely why the Yun family attached such great importance to this reception. It was a golden opportunity for them; if they could establish ties with the empire, they might not exactly dominate the grand duchy overnight, but it would at least guarantee the family's enduring prosperity and wealth.

Years of relentless currents had deposited a layer of slick, treacherous mud, making every single step forward an excruciating struggle for Liu Yuxi and Xie Tianhua.

"I told you, last time was just an accident, and she isn't truly insane!" Ying Lou held Da Siming close. Remembering the sudden change in Madam Xiang back then, he later realized that it must have been his desperate, unhesitating effort to protect her from harm that had managed to unlock a tiny crack in her heart.

The reason Lin Yuan wanted to look up Schmidt's background wasn't because he held him in high regard, but simply to satisfy his own curiosity.

"Well, we're still half a day's journey away from the main group. We've got a long way to go!" Yun Feng said with a helpless sigh.

"A green vein crystal card? Could it be that the vein crystals inside are fully charged?" murmured one of the scions from a prominent clan.

After exchanging more than twenty consecutive moves, the two parties each retreated fifteen paces, neither able to gain the upper hand. The opponent controlled the tempo so impeccably that they were unable to unleash their true martial prowess. The frustration was suffocating, making them feel like Li Yuanba trapped inside a cage, completely bound and restricted.

Nevertheless, thanks to the presence of the short, stout fellow, Yu Ji and the others did not sit at the main table, given that their status was merely that of attendants.

Ten to twenty minutes later, we reached the bottom of the tunnel—a man-made short corridor connected at a forty-five-degree slope to a natural limestone cave, from which the faint sound of trickling water could be heard.

"Attack!" At the command of the Yun family head, everyone unleashed their full battle aura, deploying their widest-ranging and most powerful techniques to rain a frenzied barrage down upon the plundering birds.

Just moments ago, driven by extreme hunger and without a single coin to her name, she had no choice but to use her Devil Fruit powers to steal a loaf of bread from the bakery's back kitchen.

Xu Miao was hopping mad, spitting a mouthful of saliva right at the tent flap. Coincidentally, a large head popped in through the entrance just in time to catch Xu Miao's spit squarely on the face and head.

Knowing that the stubborn blockhead Fang Yi'ai probably hadn't listened to a single word, Chai Lingwu simply recounted what had just happened.

Chu Tian casually found a seat and instructed those people to place the gifts he had prepared off to one side.

By now, Xu Miao had laid eyes on quite a few jade pendants. With just a glancing sweep at the one hanging from the other's waist, he could tell it was an absolute treasure of immense value—far more precious than the pendant Changsun Wuji had given him previously. Just looking at its color and luster made Xu Miao's mouth water.

The zero-gravity training on the ground applied a [Levitation Spell] to the trainees. They could feel the subtle differences immediately; for instance, a slight movement now would instantly alter their position and velocity.

Choosing to ignore the servant entirely, Old Wang and his companion swung their heavy iron hammers and flails, smashing them directly against the gates of the Liu residence. With a series of loud, thunderous crashes, their violent assault punched several large holes right through the estate's sturdy doors.

Furthermore, entering this thunder palace required obtaining the recognition of thunder itself. In other words, the only ones capable of entering would likely be himself and that Zhong Yue.

The entrance of Tiger City was surrounded by a crowd of people. A gray-haired elderly male was in the midst of a conversation with two males on guard duty.

It was this tiny shred of doubt that alerted him to the anomaly, allowing his formidable willpower to instantly break free from the dream and regain consciousness.

Earlier, when Xie Buyu was not around, he had heard that Song Zhiyu had appeared at the Hibiscus Pavilion. He had originally intended to go straight there to find her, but upon second thought, recalling all the events of his past life, cowardice had seized him, and he dared not seek her out.

These words jolted the Waterway Gang members awake as one of them rushed toward Xu Xiaoji, brandishing a large axe in his hand.

With those words spoken, the entire venue fell into absolute silence, leaving Song Zhiyu momentarily stunned. Supported by Qiu Qiutan, she looked somewhat perplexedly toward the wealthy merchant and his wife.

Feng Zheng staggered back a few steps, raised his head with a soft sigh, and retrieved a jar of wine from the corner, placing it on the table.

Stepping into the villa's living room, before he even had time to take in the interior layout and decoration, Lin En spotted Chuan Ge sitting on the sofa, looking dead serious while clutching a thick stack of pages that looked like a script.

His strength had not advanced by even an inch for over a decade due to the limitations of modern cultivation techniques. The arts passed down from antiquity had gradually been lost, and by their generation, even the Heaven and Earth Great Shift manual was incomplete. How could their family's techniques possibly be comprehensive?

Luo Juan gently blew upon Jiang Linlin's fingers, and the wound on them rapidly healed, leaving behind not a trace of injury.

Yet, upon second thought, the late emperor had already been secretly eliminated by him, and Song Zhiyu was, after all, merely a princess. There would be plenty of opportunities to torment her in the future.