Volume 1, Chapter 51: New Doubts Within the Evidence

“Yes,” Jiang Shishi said. “You used to be busy with work all the time, spending most of your days at the company. But these past few days, you seem to have been spending much more time at home.”

As Jiang Shishi spoke, what flashed through her mind was the scene from not long ago, when Fang Yi had left in the dead of night...

“All right. Since you don’t really believe me, I suppose I’ll have to use this method!” A cold glint flashed through Ji Ya’s eyes as she looked at me.

Bai Yan glanced at Bi Yifei beside him, then gazed toward the distant lights. Suddenly, he found himself growing fond of this forest.

So he shrugged and gave her an expression that said, “Do as you please,” before turning around and continuing forward. Sure enough, the clanging of weapons immediately rang out behind him, mingled with the two young women’s delicate cries of anger and pleas for mercy.

“Put the footage on for me,” Xu Feng ordered the remote surveillance operator through the communicator he carried with him.

“Slaughtering fellow disciples, framing others in full view of the public—such crimes deserve death a thousand times over! How could mere execution be considered severe?” Most of the elders remained silent, but Mo Xiu showed no fear of Yan Kong. Meeting his gaze directly, he spoke coldly.

No wonder the two Five-Eyed Masks had failed to detect Tang Yun when they first infiltrated the place. It turned out that they had not simply failed to scan him—they had already become soulless shells.

Feng Wu’s body trembled faintly. Whether it was from fear or terror, even she could not say. The sight before her was simply too shocking. This phoenix was clearly one from ancient times, and its strength could easily be imagined. Yet it had been humiliated in such a manner. Just how powerful must the person responsible be?

Hu Xie sensed the disturbance at the front lines. After looking past layer upon layer of iron armor, he witnessed something he would never forget for the rest of his life. A line of towering flame giants advanced slowly toward the barbarian vanguard. Those barbarian soldiers who could not retreat in time were lifted into the air with one hand by the flame giants. Green fire erupted across their bodies, and amid their struggles and screams, they gradually turned to ash.

The child before him truly possessed something extraordinary. At the very least, the structure of his body was unlike that of an ordinary person.

Ma Zheng put all his strength into that slash. The blade sank deep into the door panel. He tried to deliver another blow toward that face, only to find that he could not pull the blade free.

Ye Qing had done this deliberately. Before coming, he had already made up his mind: he would perform excellently, somewhere between outstanding and genius, but not to the point of seeming too gifted. If all ten dishes he prepared were flawless and identical, as though cast from the same mold, it would be far too unbelievable.

As he spoke, he actually managed to calm himself somewhat. Reaching into his Cosmic Ring, he took out a cyan pill, and a rich medicinal fragrance drifted through the air.

He wanted to use an old saying from China: after wearing out iron shoes in a fruitless search, one finds what one seeks without the slightest effort. Yet faced with Qin Fan in this state, he could not bring himself to say it. Instead, a violent sense of unease assailed him from every direction.

“I’ll enter the competition as a racer and place a bet on myself. What’s the highest wager allowed?” Qin Fan asked again.

At those words, Qin Jiange nodded. When he heard A-Gou begin with that young supreme of the Sword Clan, the strange feeling in his heart grew even stronger.

His gruff voice echoed across the battlefield’s front lines. Under his orders, every soldier and combat engineer, along with the farmers and servants temporarily conscripted from nearby estates, sprang into action.

“I can’t concern myself with the future. I can only save people one moment at a time.” Yuan Shou turned and walked away, his back straight and resolute.

The two sides had originally been evenly matched. But with Gui Deng Man Yue’s intervention, even the neutral forces joined the main combat faction—something Suikazan Fuguki had never anticipated.

What does it mean to be brothers? True brothers share in each other’s happiness. When one is sad, they find every possible way to cheer him up. When one has something to be proud of, they watch from afar and offer their blessings. And when one is in trouble, they give him all the help they can, without hesitation and without ever changing.