Twenty-one thousand and twenty-one

"The Sword Intent of the Immortal Fighter is indeed tricky. I can sense that if I were to strike with my full strength, I fear I would not be able to withstand it," Wan Moyi said in a deep voice. It was precisely the Sword Intent of the Immortal Fighter that had scared him off earlier.

Within the pharmacy, Zou Duo nodded slightly, seeing that everything was proceeding largely as he had anticipated. Over a hundred years ago, he had slain the former King of the Realm and usurped his position, reigning for more than a century. A blissful smile bloomed on his face.

Shi Shanzhao sighed helplessly, yet he truly lacked the ability to excavate these graves independently without Zou Duo.

"Old Fei, if Uncle Ping and the others are rescued, that dharma treasure inherited by your Demon-Slaying Alliance..." Xu Yan asked after much hesitation, leaving the sentence unfinished.

"I don't play much ball," Qi Ge said with a smile toward Zhao Weidong. He knew well enough that his skills were mediocre, but his ambitions lay elsewhere; he played only for casual recreation.

"Fine, I'm idle anyway. Let's see what this new feature is all about." Qi Ge turned the car around and headed toward the location of the yellow question mark.

Early the next morning, Li Xue and Xiang Dong went to the office building and summoned the other department heads.

"Today's events are truly bizarre, do you realize that?" Li Siyu's voice was slightly choked with emotion.

"You really can't blame the government for this; it's just his bad luck to have encountered an unscrupulous contractor, working for a whole year for nothing," another passerby remarked, shaking his head.

The relationships in wealthy families are always so convoluted. With siblings and extended family, even if they don't live together, wouldn't they secretly plot to claim a larger share of the old man's fortune? Such domestic strife and palace intrigue are truly frightening. I would rather live a simple, plain life.

"Immortals lack spirit stones? Nonsense!" Ling Tian stared at the message on his phone, finding it hard to believe. If immortals were short on spirit stones, who in the world could possibly have any? It was entirely impossible.

Although the landing site had already been leveled by that "Namira" armored recovery vehicle using a stone mill the raw recruits had scavenged from some household, Kong Heng still followed standard procedure and arranged for combat engineers to conduct a manual sweep of the area.

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On one hand, this was to prevent Murong Susu from becoming desperate and fighting him to the death later; on the other, it was to facilitate his subsequent actions.

As the two great Heavenly Kings exchanged words, one of the three Golden Core stage cultivators kneeling on the ground fainted dead away. Of the remaining two, one was so terrified he lost his nerve completely, while the other, though slightly better off, was already streaming with tears and mucus.

Hearing the doorbell, she knew even with her eyes closed that it was Xiao Fei, but she did not go to open the door immediately, intending to let him suffer for a while.

Breaking through the shackles from a special-grade martial artist to a Qi martial artist is like entering an entirely new world. In the hierarchy of internal energy, every level difference signifies a vast gap in strength.

Li Yi sensed something was wrong immediately. In that instant, the figure of a young man rounded the corner and appeared in his line of sight.

"In your dreams! Why would I ever fancy you? No more talk—give me some more beauty serum, and we'll call it even." Liu Lingling’s eyes darted around playfully.

Red Skull looked stunned, clearly not expecting Ye Fei to forgo interrogating him about the "Dawn."

Ning Yue checked the time; it was past eight in the evening. By the time she finished her bath, Lin Fei would likely have finished her contemplations.

He raised his hand, Armament Haki and the power of blood-lightning surging to coat his palm, transforming it into a blade.

Pading, who had been filled with fear by Li Tianliang's methods, felt a flicker of realization pass through his eyes, as if he had grasped something.

He looked at Mu Qingli while explaining, and when she met his gaze, she blushed and lowered her head, unable to look at him any longer.

The first disciple ran over, and upon confirming it was truly him, he dropped to his knees before him.

"Heh, you want to compete with me, Deep Sea Yamato, for the right to tease the ship-girls? Don't you know I have special techniques?" Deep Sea Yamato, triumphant, set off with a fleet to begin her journey of teasing.

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Leading two battalions against an equivalent number of Japanese troops while maintaining an offensive stance was extremely difficult, but he had staked everything on it and was resolved to fight to the end.

His machine gun mowed down many Japanese soldiers, and seeing them hiding in alleys and blocks, he operated a mortar, firing it at them. The explosions sent the enemy into a chaotic scramble, leaving them dead or wounded and forcing them to continue their retreat.

This caused Li Yu to change his opinion of Higashida Hideyoshi slightly; he was not the man Li Yu had originally imagined, someone who viewed ship-girls merely as weapons rather than partners.

Fragile defense, high damage, but skills consume mana; once the mana bar is empty, one is no better than dead weight.

Although Liu Fan felt guilty that they hadn't been granted titles higher than Gongcheng, Zhao Yun and the others felt differently. They believed any title was a great honor, let alone Gongcheng and Gongdaifu, which were the highest tiers of civilian nobility.

Isha’s blood sprayed out, staining half his body. He quickly staunched the bleeding and looked at the arm he had severed.

Heitong Hiroto shouted, lunging toward Bai Mosheng and pulling a dark green magatama from inside his clothes.

"My Lord is wise! This subordinate is filled with admiration!" Tian Feng, usually a stern and serious man, found his vision blurred by tears at that moment.

Meanwhile, on New Earth, Guo Qiming looked at everyone with excitement. This "Operation Energy Stone"—a name he had coined himself—not only successfully promoted energy stones throughout the empire but also unexpectedly yielded a significant amount of Imperial Credits.

Zhuang Jian took a deep look at the world around him and strained his eyes, but he could find no way out. After all, their destination was not the Outer Zen Sect, but the opposing Asura Eight Sects.

Arriving at the exit, he saw a middle-aged man in a blue Zhongshan suit waving at Lin Peng from a distance.