Chapter 46: A Fraud Living Off Free Meals and Drinks

"Stop making such a fuss and startling her. Her name is Xia Tiantian. We only met for the first time today, so talking about being a couple is still a bit too early!" Gu Xiaofeng explained with a grin to his mother. This time, he genuinely wanted to pursue Xia Tiantian, which was why he wasn't as reckless as usual.

Seeing her son's cheeky smile, Mother Gu knew he had taken a fancy to the girl beside him, so she began sizing Xia Tiantian up from head to toe with a critical gaze. In her heart, she thought this girl was much better than the scrawny one from yesterday—

However, once they accelerated, they noticed something was amiss. The spacecraft, usually so obedient, gradually veered off course and drifted sideways, showing a tendency to fly further and further away. This seemed somewhat incredible to them.

"Master of the Manor, Sister Yinhang, and Brother Zhou, do not panic! With me here, I daresay these scoundrels wouldn't dare act presumptuously! I will surely keep Miss Liu and the Liu Family Manor safe!" Xue Rengui once again uttered bold and grand words, though his eyes clearly held a hint of incomparable confidence.

"Have you forgotten?" Tong Long said, "The Ring of the Ancient Gods is the product of various energies between heaven and earth, and energy is the power of fusion. Since it was willing to choose you as its master, it naturally won't let you die so easily."

The Reaper Beasts also suffered heavy losses. When the Queen Mother began checking the number of Reaper Beasts that had escaped, she was driven to the verge of madness, never having imagined that the outcome would turn out this way—a result completely unanticipated by the other side.

At this moment, a grand banquet in the imperial council hall—truly unprecedented in history, with none before and none to follow—began. This was definitely unlike ordinary imperial banquets, where ordinary imperial banquets merely allowed ministers to take the food home, or even if they ate right there in the court, it was just a token gesture of a bite or two.

After finishing the large piece of fish meat in his hand, Lu Qi already felt exceptionally full. This was the warmest food he had eaten in all these days.

Because the combat inside the cabin used close-range weapons to avoid accidental injuries, even close-range weapons were more than enough for these pirates to deal with the incoming enemies.

Aiyan stared at Uenqi with some confusion, because in the caves of the Burning Ridge there was a deposed prince named Aleph. He looked remarkably different from Uenqi, yet both claimed to be the Toad Lord who had taught him battle qi.

Walking along the Red Rock Road, many people cast a peculiar gaze toward Lu Qi. Though it seemed like they were staring at Lu Qi, they were actually looking at the rare beast walking alongside him—a creature shaped like a horse with a single horn on its head, black limbs, a red body, and a mane and tail extending from its forehead to its back that were both white.

"Teacher said that without experience, one is easily deceived. As the saying goes, a fall into a pit, a gain in your wit; blood and tears are all telling us to learn how to grow!" Recalling the words his teacher used to chant to him and his fellow disciples every day, Yi Xuan said with a smile.

For instance, Zhang Chao had not planned for a long time at all, but rather was too eager to make achievements, leading him to attack before scouting out the enemy's true strength. Fortunately, the outcome turned out to be relatively favorable.

Jin Ge reacted a bit slowly. Before she even had time to pull her tongue back, she was gently embraced by Huan Sheng, who pulled her down together to kneel toward the palanquin whose identity could be told at a single glance.

However, Yi Xuan was not in a rush about this now. Once the matters concerning the Star Sect were concluded, the energy in his hands would not be scarce; the "Evil Thousand Treasures Vault" alone would probably be enough to fill an entire Heaven-Origin Qi-Gathering Bottle.

Reborn as a human, the very first thing she would do was have Yi Xuan buy lots of food for her to eat, and then she would refine all sorts of items together with him. Thinking of this, she smiled faintly and picked up the *Chronicles of the Wilds and Oddities of the Nine Provinces* collected by Yi Xuan, reading it quietly. The dawn light streamed through the doors and windows into the room, quiet and serene.

Finally, Shire finished her report, and Thea concluded her work as an assistant, stepping down from the judging platform with a complicated expression.