Chapter 41: In Utter Disarray

Boom!

An aura just as overwhelmingly powerful erupted suddenly from Qin Wenlong’s body.

The two forces of pressure violently collided in mid-air, bursting forth with a succession of sounds like rolling thunder.

"Little bastard, take my sword!"

Qin Wenlong roared, and instantly, five magical swords of five different colors materialized behind him.

The sword—

However, reality proved even more bizarre than his imagination. When Homunculus revealed the truth, not only was Roland dumbfounded, but Lyudmila and Anthony were left gaping in utter shock.

Onyo Masayoshi slowly recounted every detail of her journey with Dilraba from their first meeting to falling in love. Dilraba rested her head gently against Onyo Masayoshi’s shoulder, listening quietly as a mist of tears gradually welled up in her eyes.

Xia Zhi did not help with making the pancakes; today she was in charge of the soup and the fillings to be rolled inside. There were shredded cucumbers, sweet and spicy shredded potatoes, shredded tofu, alongside scalded bean sprouts. Xia Zhi even stir-fried some shredded pork and mixed it in, and with that, the preparations were complete. As for the soup, today she prepared a sweet luffa and pea milk.

Witnessing this scene, Lin Yi cursed inwardly, then immediately retrieved a bottle of medicinal pills from his spatial ring. Pouring out more than a dozen pills, he shoved them straight into his mouth.

Seeing the sudden appearance of the figure, everyone was filled with astonishment and froze for a brief moment, before uniformly cupping their fists in salute toward Lin Yi.

He gently squeezed the trigger and heard several piercing "whoosh" sounds coming from behind. Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat. The distance between himself and those Shadow Guards was currently no more than twenty meters; at the speed of those crossbow arrows, it would probably take less than half a breath of time to pierce straight through his heart.

Yet he would only think this way because he had been reduced to a human pillar. If he were whole, he would surely be thinking of avenging Anyang in his past life.

As soon as Zhang Ning spoke those words, Zhang Ruyan and Zhen Jiang were immediately overjoyed. While the former expressed all her delight openly on her face, glowing with a radiant flush, the latter buried that joy deep within her heart, looking remarkably calm on the outside.

Two gargoyles unexpectedly plunged straight into the whirlwind, dragged along by the air currents as they spun and flew. Realizing they were powerless to break free from the wind's confinement, they were forced to abandon their vaporized forms and revert to their physical bodies. What appeared before everyone were two ash-grey, ferocious-looking monsters with wings spread wide on their backs, flapping desperately in an attempt to escape the vortex's grip.

Everyone was deeply startled. Who could have imagined that just a moment ago everything was dead quiet, only for tension to erupt in the blink of an eye?

Tang Hai was essentially a computer with specs indefinitely equivalent to an obsolete vintage machine. Aside from watching movies and opening web pages, even launching Minesweeper would cause frame drops. How could such a rig possibly run a 3A masterpiece like "Nine Swords"?

Zhan Yeqing’s face flushed red, feeling deeply unconvinced. His long sword unleashed ultimate techniques in rapid succession, and as cold glares spun and flashed, he abruptly launched eight consecutive attacks.

Yan Wang let out such a howl that not only shocked and infuriated Tianya, but the three elderly onlookers with youthful faces also revealed ferocious glares. Exchanging a glance with tacit understanding, they charged forward together.

He continued to ponder: Unfortunately, Fan Lei had likewise overlooked a crucial link—the problem of asymmetrical information. Right up until this moment, he still had no idea that in Lansilin’s eyes, he was the so-called "traitor."

Clearly, this child had not spoken with anyone for a very long time. Now, seeing Li Mu was like looking at a beloved toy; he was completely reluctant to leave.

"This cannot be told. In short, I will let Zhang Xinheng live well, eating and dressing well every day. Of course, I won't clean up the mistakes he made himself; he will receive the punishment he rightfully deserves through another means!" Ye Tian said mysteriously.

So where should he go to earn these tens of thousands of yuan? If he participated in missions dispatched by the research institute, perhaps one or two missions would be enough to earn travel money... It was just that because of the previous college entrance exams, he had strongly declined several missions, making the institute seem to have recently forgotten about the two of them.

Their vision gradually recovered, yet everywhere the eye could reach remained a stretch of profound darkness, save for two faint light sources.

After dodging the issue repeatedly, the Demon Lord finally managed to send Liu Yulian away and walked back wiping beads of sweat from his forehead. Liu Yanxi accompanied him by his side, continuously struggling to hold back her laughter, her pair of eyes already curved into crescent moons.

He believed that two energetic young guards would undoubtedly perform exceptionally well in a game where momentum was on their side.

The sound of skin colliding with skin and muscle against muscle echoed out. Before everyone even had the chance to cheer for their boss, they were startled by the scene before them.

Although the four of them still held deep questions about Ahn Seung-woo, this sudden individual who had become Keul-chi-sin’s friend, since Keul-chi-sin had already explained it to them, they no longer pursued the matter further.

Truth be told, such a strategy was actually extremely simple. Yet precisely because it was so simple, when applied to the underdeveloped intelligence of the super queen mother Crocayi, it proved to be the most practical.

Zhang Luoye narrowed his eyes as he stared at Chen Jinnan, thinking to himself: Chen Jinnan appears heroic and bold on the surface, but inwardly he is exceedingly slick. I only just became a hall master a moment ago, yet he already received the news, and he deliberately avoided mentioning Daoist Yishui. This shows he is not nearly as easygoing as he looks.

When Ye Lei and his force of over three hundred men arrived at a mountaintop on the western side of Wangtian Mountain, he met the special operations team members who were observing the battle from there.

Zhang Luoye also drew a treasured sword borrowed from Huang Tianpeng. Having used a wooden sword before, he was naturally no stranger to a steel sword.

Damn it! Mi Heng’s curses were truly vicious; not a single one of Cao Cao’s subordinates was spared. In particular, his insults toward Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren were even harsher. As the saying goes: when hitting someone, don't hit the face; when scolding someone, don't expose their shortcomings. Yet Mi Heng exposed them all, from one being blind to another having paid a ransom. Every single weak spot was dragged into the open.

All Dragon Soul members gathered together, forming an impassionable ravine of mountains that barred the esper outside.

No matter what kind of hardship Huang Miyoung had encountered in the past, her face always wore that innocent, harmless, and pure smile. Yet now, it was clouded with contemplative sorrow, and her crescent-moon eyes were slightly reddened.

"This method seems effective, but its speed in gathering energy bubbles is far too slow. If this continues, the energy bubbles I can obtain will truly be limited. No, I must think of another way," Qian Ye thought to himself.

Saint Loyal hesitated. He had not expected his master, Yang Yulei, to explain so much to him. At the same time, he knew this confrontation was unavoidable; uttering those words just now stemmed from his genuine concern that Yang Yulei might not be a match for the True Saint Empire.

At that moment, the edge of the sky bizarrely flashed with a fierce, blinding blood-red hue. Before the minor extras could even react, that red shooting star violently smashed right into the center of the flagship belonging to the Whitebeard Pirates, a vessel named the Moby Dick. The violent tremor nearly flipped the entire ship upside down.