Volume 1, Chapter 60: Contention

The gymnasium was packed to the point of being shoulder to shoulder.

Having secured the eighth match, they ushered in the ninth, which proved to be even more arduous. Lan Qian successfully integrated the profound meaning of darkness into his Nether Capital divine abilities and soul techniques, rendering his footwork even more uncanny and his attacks utterly unpredictable. Following such a relentless series of assaults, he finally managed to defeat his opponent.

The man in red gave a light chuckle. Looking at the fierce and aggressive demeanor of the black beast, doubt still lingered in his eyes, and his gaze involuntarily fell once more upon Jun Wuxie.

"You want to have a grand wedding with my grandson? Did you ever ask for my consent? Now that you've been reduced to this state, you actually still want to marry my grandson? Do you want to make my grandson the laughingstock of the entire world by marrying a cripple?" Zhou Lindit was trembling all over with rage, pointing at Gu Changsheng as he stammered out those words.

Seeing one master alchemist after another return successively from the Pill Realm, a trace of joy could not help but surface on the Emperor of Wood's face... Most of the master alchemists he had previously favored had passed the trials of the Pill Realm and successfully returned to the Gathering Immortal Platform.

As the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, run; if you can't run, bluff. Zixiu was now preparing to activate her bluffing skill.

"Success achieved time and time again is no longer a coincidence. She... is already a master alchemist. I look forward to competing against her in the Royal City Arena." Regarding this, Master Shi made no further comments, uttering only these words before continuing with his alchemy work.

Yet, she still wore a hint of a shy smile, striking a somewhat bashful pose. Little did she know that the once pitiful and endearing loli face was now tainted with sophistication and worldly cynicism, making all her feigned innocence look entirely unconvincing no matter how hard she tried.

Initially, she had only approached it with the mindset of giving it a try, but the astonishing results made her admire Hu Tutu even more.

This dust was formed from dust-attribute spiritual energy, which was a special attribute spiritual energy possessed by Qian Chen. Qian Chen's physique was a spiritual body, with an 80 percent compatibility for earth-attribute spiritual energy, and a 50 percent compatibility for both wind-attribute and fire-attribute spiritual energy. The fusion of these three attribute spiritual energies evolved into dust-attribute spiritual energy, which possessed formidable might.

It vanished completely in just a fleeting moment, leaving behind only the brilliant sun high in the sky and the lotus flowers across the full lake gently swaying in the breeze.

The aesthetic here was completely different from the downstairs. The gloomy, damp, and mottled stone walls were covered in spiderwebs. Rather than a hospital ward, it resembled a grim and terrifying prison.

The telephone call had connected in less than ten minutes, and even more miraculously, Meier, Ruth, and Mimi all materialized collectively before Simon.

Inside the house, Xia Yi and Zhenwu finished breakfast, helped clean up, and subsequently headed out as well. Although they rarely went out ordinarily, they would still emerge for a stroll around dusk or evening. Sometimes they would accompany Keiko Sakai and her son, led by her to clothing stores to select a few appropriate outfits.

Since the Empress Dowager wanted him to take His Royal Highness the Crown Prince out to play more often, and even had intentions of bestowing upon him the title of Imperial Tutor to the Crown Prince, Zhou Xingyun simply unleashed his full might to thoroughly discipline Han Feng.

"As a high-ranking expert in the Daoist world, it is naturally inconvenient for the True Immortal to casually handle worldly mundane affairs. That worldly martial artist named Ling Qifan has already been disposed of by me, and I hope this hasn't disrupted the True Immortal's deployments," Wang Hanyuan said, half-fishing for praise.

He believed that the reason he lost to Qin Chen was entirely due to his own blind arrogance, failing to recognize Qin Chen's formidable cultivation in martial arts. He had abandoned his own strengths and instead chosen to compete with Qin Chen in Qin Chen's own areas of expertise, which was why he had suffered such a miserable defeat.

By now, the vicinity of the spacetime rift was entirely under the control of the Association of Mages, having been converted into a temporary encampment with the spacetime rift and the monsters enclosed squarely in the center. It could be said that the camp served both to prevent outsiders from approaching and to contain the monsters from spreading outward.

Just as she reached this point, she saw Nicole take out a crystal ball, stroke it, and with a flash of her figure, vanish from the spot.

The person Chen Guoxun stuffed over to Qin Chen was unquestionably a top-tier biological scientist who had achieved significant accomplishments in related fields.

Out of boredom, Chen Yuan simply closed his eyes, let his consciousness slip into the Nether Mansion, and mentally rehearsed the mental formulas and essential techniques of the Thirty-Eight Subjugation Forms from start to finish,正好 laying a solid foundation for the actual practice that evening.

However, Su Zhao and his companions did not pay too much attention to these posted notices; upon entering the medical clinic, they simply covered their heads and fell into a deep sleep.

With those words, Su Zhao activated the nightmare system, and the two of them entered the patient's dream world together.

Asking someone for a favor required compensation. Zhang Chenkai wouldn't give cash, but sending some "local specialties" was entirely acceptable.

This man, whom I had once sworn to resist even unto death, I was now willing to let crush me into pieces within his embrace, even if it meant eternal damnation.

Hearing about something can never be as shocking as witnessing it with one's own eyes. Qin Jieyong had already begun shielding his protégé; anyway, regardless of anything else, Wanli Financial Research Institute had a contract with Wang Huo, and Tyrone held shares in Wanli Financial Research Institute, so Wang Huo belonged to Tyrone's camp—outsiders should stop staring. Qin Jieyong had plenty of research business to handle.

Tian Xin's look towards Gao Pingfan no longer carried the past demeanor. At this moment, his gaze towards Gao Pingfan was filled with doubt, and the affection he held for Gao Pingfan was also exceedingly earnest. At this instant, it was also truly the first time he was properly sizing up the Gao Pingfan standing before him.

Not knowing how to respond, I fell silent and sat to one side playing with my fingers. As I played, drowsiness overcame me, and I dozed off resting against the edge of the bed.

As he spoke, his gaze was directed towards Zhu Longwu at the side. Zhu Longwu understood clearly in his heart that the other party was interrogating him.

As Su Zhao spoke, a chill emanated from his eyes, making the hair on everyone's arms stand on end.

For the same stock, some people were bullish while others were bearish—why? Because people are different, and human perspectives differ as well; even algorithms, research directions, and estimations of variable impacts are completely disparate.

Han Li merely offered a noncommittal smile at this. Hanyan and Lieyuan exchanged glances and actually nodded at each other, which seemed rather bizarre, at least in Han Li's eyes.

Yet everyone noticed that deep within the endless void, at a depth of at least three to four hundred thousand zhang, even that realm was scorched crimson by fire. Where the silk-like threads of fierce gale winds densely pervaded, illusory glows continuously "squeezed" out from the void, gradually accumulating as multicolored silk threads endlessly piled up and transformed.