Chapter 38: We Are Family

Old Master Xu gazed at Lin Yu with a solemn expression, his brows tightly knitted, making it clear how deeply concerned he was about Lin Yu’s situation. After all the hardship he’d endured to find Lin Yu, he was terribly worried that the young man might be facing some insurmountable difficulty.

Seeing the genuine care in Old Master Xu’s eyes, Lin Yu felt a wave of warmth surge through his heart. He knew that Old Master Xu truly regarded him as family, sincerely worrying about his well-being.

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“Hold it in, hold it in, I must restrain myself. I can’t stoop to the level of an imbecile; charity towards the mentally challenged starts with me,” Lei Yu repeated to himself, struggling to suppress the urge to turn around and give the Demon Dragon Ape a beating.

“The Child of Darkness…” Lu Yu suddenly recalled—the last time Bishop Jock had spoken, hadn’t he mentioned something about the Child of Darkness?

“That’s it! This might work!” A sudden idea flashed through Lu Shuangyang’s mind. Though it might not succeed, it was worth trying.

Many had their suspicions, but none dared to be certain. Across from them, the blue-robed youth, for once, refrained from bidding, maintaining a rare silence.

The Sword That Shapes Mountains and Rivers had been mastered, the Heaven and Earth Sword Technique had also been grasped at the basic level, and as for the Divine Soul Spirit Assimilation Method, Yun Xiao had spent the most time on it over the past month.

Yun Xiao could surmise that by now, the practitioners of forbidden arts had surely put him on their kill list, perhaps even dispatched the Seven Fiends to scour all of River City for his whereabouts.

Suddenly, the call-back signal from the elders rang out from the sky—apparently, the battle had ended, and they were to report to the flying vessel at once.

The Western countries demanded that Sorrento be taken away. If he had to die, it would be best if he fell to the weapons of the Hua Nation’s army. Yet now, Sorrento was shielded by six elite snipers. He hid behind a rock, and anyone who dared catch sight of him was promptly taken out with a headshot.

Thus, through a challenge, the bandit soldiers were drawn before the fortress, while Liu Zhi, battered and worn, emerged to meet the enemy as a defeated survivor.

No one knew whether, before this, Lilad had already broken the curse and crushed the Yamaguchi-gumi underfoot.

“Emperor Yue, you still have that foul mouth. Why so much pointless chatter before the match? Is everyone in Thunder Hall like you?” Chen Yun said with a gentle smile.

“Qi Qi.” Jin Yexuan was the first to shatter the subtle, complex tension in the room, but before he could finish his words, Tan Qiqi had stepped forward and embraced him tightly, resting her cheek softly against his chest, listening to his heartbeat and breathing in the familiar scent of his body.

The atmosphere grew tense—after all, this was their first meeting with the boss, and to witness such a display of authority would unsettle anyone.

At that instant, the room’s temperature plummeted to zero. Heifeng’s inscrutable manner plunged us all into silence, a flicker of shock darting through our eyes for several seconds.

Seeing Chen Yun take the initiative to attack, the Thunder Beast was unperturbed; with a light tap of his finger, the Ghost Shield enveloped in the lightning sphere shattered instantly, the sphere swallowing Chen Yun in turn.

“Then why have you come to inform us? I doubt it’s as simple as you make it sound,” the Liu family mused for a moment.

Suddenly, Chen Yun opened his eyes wide and let out a long howl toward the heavens, then recited four words: “A sky filled with fireworks.”

Heh, Mingyi was right—Jin Yexuan, for everyone’s sake, for her sake, you too need to calm yourself.

Zhou Chu glanced over and couldn’t help but laugh. He wondered who it might be, and to his surprise, it turned out to be an old acquaintance—Zhang Jun—showing up at just this moment.

Before the Sorcerer War, this world was filled with mighty wizards and evil creatures, giving rise to a golden age of adventuring.

So, Shen Ran would simply have to endure some grievance. Of course, she did want to teach him a lesson; after all, he hadn’t been fair—punishing one but letting the other go.