Chapter 33: Vengeance

The King of Gold appeared aged, yet he remained a man brimming with an explosive sense of power. This power did not manifest through sheer muscle, but rather, every part of him—from his clothing to his very gaze—was imbued with a formidable intensity.

"Pardon me, but I have no intention of having a pleasant conversation with you in the future," Chu Yunduan sneered.

Naturally, while the major families might not intervene directly, the He family was, after all, a top-tier clan in the capital with deep enough resources. As long as they were willing to pay a high price, they could still hire experts from within those major families to assist them. It was simply a matter of whether the He family was willing to part with the wealth.

However, since the drinks had already been poured, the three of them were not overly fastidious and simply made do with the meal as it was.

Leaving the encampment and crossing the mountain where the Yin Kui Sect was stationed, Li Guanguan led Li Cha to a valley thirty miles away.

The supervisors nodded in succession before bidding their farewells to return to their tents to apply medicine. Heichi Changzhi, needing to rush back to Shanzhou, also bowed and took his leave of Lu Jin.

The dense crowd of mechanical automatons before him, which had appeared as lifeless as the dead, suddenly opened their glowing red eyes. The "creak-creak" sound of gears turning resonated from within their bodies; indeed, in an instant, they had all come to life.

Xue Ning’s cold, emotionless eyes remained fixed as she issued a chilling order to the guards behind Xiao Feng.

To this end, Ayase had woken up before five-thirty this morning. After a simple wash, grooming, and styling her hair, she had boarded the train and hurried over.

However, the trigger for the Fire Jade Lotus to activate was even less predictable than sobering up. Hao Jun dared not rely on manifesting the full power of his bronze arm at a critical moment. It was not impossible, but there were too many unknown factors. At the very least, the symbiotic relationship between the Fire Jade Lotus and the YQT was currently unstable, and he dared not be blindly confident.

"Guo Tianzhao is your younger brother, isn't he? I once said I would break his limbs and throw him onto the street stripped naked. But your sister, Guo Ningjing, saved him," Li Fan said.

What the capital needed at this moment was unity; any act detrimental to this unity would only allow the enemy to seize an opportunity! Tan Cheng believed that Long Lingxiu was the person most likely to lead the people and the grand army of the capital out of their predicament.

Xu Nuo had temporarily set aside his personal vendetta so that he could leverage the strength of the Jiang family to eradicate Ghost Hand.

However, the Underworld Ghost Child would never succumb to such threats. With a flick of his wrist, the Bone-Eroding Soul-Dissolving Blade struck down in a flash.

More importantly, I was thinking that once I resolved this matter, perhaps Xie Zijun’s anger would subside, and I might be able to see her again.

Many martial artists at the Xiantian realm, upon touching the threshold of the Grandmaster level, would give up on further improving their physical conditioning, instead pouring all their efforts into cultivating various internal energy techniques, thereby abandoning the very foundation of martial arts: physical mastery.

"Dad, I beg you." Fearing that Ding Rongfa might actually hurt Shi Feng, Ding Xuemin spoke as if she were about to kneel.

In ordinary times, he would have undoubtedly stood up to help without hesitation, but today he really did not want to move. Although he did not want to deal with this matter, he still had to let Leng Moxi know that he was aware of the situation.

"I said you can't see it, so you can't! Just stay here obediently. There aren't many people inside; I'll go in first!" Mo Ziqian said impatiently.

Yet, Mo Ziqian, standing to the side, caught the hidden meaning in Park Xukun’s words. "Meet again!" This suggested they had met before, hadn't they?

Therefore, what Li Guinian needed to do next was to spare no effort in crafting the audiovisual effects for these artists on the competition stage, turning them into a benchmark for art and leading the entertainment trend of the Great Tang.

Compared to tanks and heavy armored vehicles with nearly a meter of thick plating, the Gundam was essentially entering the battlefield naked; its frame was far too fragile.

Lin Xiao sat on a high-backed chair in the corner of the room, a white bandage covering his left temple. Bright red blood seeped through the base of the gauze, staining it slightly like a painting. He kept his head bowed and his eyes lowered, his expression a mix of frustration and gloom.

"No, San Pang is different. His excess energy needs to be released," Li Guinian shook his head and said.

Shi Shouxin was not foolish enough to engage in a life-or-death struggle against Xiao Qian with a mere iron ladle. Even though he was wearing a bulletproof vest capable of stopping not just broadswords but bullets as well, if that blade were to slice across his throat, it wouldn't be quite so amusing.

Ye Minghan hesitated for a moment, pondered, and eventually disclosed the matter of returning the Yuhan Group's investment to Ye Zhenlei.

Although the two police officers could not forget those events, they lacked Javert's intense curiosity and deductive prowess; they simply felt a lingering fear after being awakened by nightmares.

From behind, this figure changing clothes possessed a graceful silhouette, with high breasts and a slender, narrow waist that made his heart race uncontrollably.

Li Xinluan had been working in the office when she was suddenly summoned by someone from the headquarters halfway through the day.

"You suddenly fainted just now, and then your chest glowed with a bright red light. It gave us quite a scare!" Jin Zhuan said, peeking out from behind Master Yue.

Clutching her wound, Debbie sobbed in her mother’s arms, while from an angle hidden from everyone else, a strange, cold sneer played on her face.

As Qin Tian watched Li Zhaoxiang close his eyes in resignation, he was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the Li Zhaoxiang before him instantly transform into a doll.