Chapter 231: Word of Mouth Explodes, Crisis!

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Just as the assembly of engineers and research scholars whispered among themselves, trading hurried murmurs,

The measured, steady cadence of footsteps echoed outside the encrypted classroom, and a figure both familiar and yet foreign to them all soon materialised before their eyes.

Upon catching sight of that face, every engineer and scientist present involuntarily widened their eyes in sheer disbelief.

The reason was simple: they discovered to their utter astonishment that the person arriving to lecture them was not some titan of the scientific community—

"Brother Chen, why have you brought me here? This is no place for the likes of us, we should head back!" Xiao Yu said, her face a mask of sudden panic as they arrived before the tavern.

Ignoring Fu Yuecheng entirely, Fu Annan shot him a sharp glare, threw herself into a chair, and began eating breakfast with aggressive, heavy movements, deliberately making noise to annoy him at every turn.

If one party had no genuine desire to wed, and the other had no true wish to marry, then it was precisely the most opportune moment to discuss an alliance.

To the denizens of the Water-Moon Plains, this Sun-Yang Elixir Method was a supreme doctrine, but to it, perhaps it truly was nothing more than a mere primer.

Yet Ye Qingtian stood there, utterly motionless, his internal spiritual energy surging as he effortlessly deflected Wu Xiao's force, nullifying the lethal strike with casual ease.

"Not so, not so! This demonic beast—well, let us just call him a dog—is precisely the beast that abides by Master's side. When I ventured out from the mountains this time, Master specifically assigned him to protect my path." Zhou Feiyang shook his head, speaking in a slow, deliberate cadence.

"Tell me, what secret does this spiritual jade hold?" Ye Qingtian asked Tai Xian'er, suddenly producing the jade before her.

Liu Zhaoying bowed to Gu Yihui, recalling how, by Meng Mianchun's design, both Gu Yihui and Xie Lingjing had been betrothed to the He family of the capital.

Having suffered such a catastrophic disaster, the disciples of the Heavenly Master Dao sect naturally found it difficult to appease their simmering fury, while certain factions within the Gongsun clan believed they should press the advantage and pursue the enemy.

Liu Zhaoying considered herself a clever person; having learned through years of osmosis, she naturally understood a measure of political maneuvering, yet the affairs of the imperial court were far too labyrinthine, ultimately beyond her sphere of mastery, and she and her brother had never intended to entangle themselves in the vortex of power struggles.

To say nothing of foreign lands, within the borders of China alone, countless visitors had come knocking over the past two days, all of them venerable elders of traditional Chinese medicine who had dedicated their long lives to its study; they had spontaneously formed an alliance to stand by Ye Qiu, supporting his mission to propagate the art.

The ground trembled, and as far as the eye could see, countless fierce beasts—each more powerful than the Human King Realm—roamed, a sight that made one's scalp tingle with dread.

"It is merely a momentary gain or loss, let them fight for it, we need only stand aside and watch," Shen Tianlong said softly, standing up to pick up his glass of plain water, his gaze drifting toward the brilliantly lit streets in the distance.

"No need, Yumou, you only need to protect the ancestral hall from harm!" Seeing Su Yumou preparing to strike, Jiang Yuxuan hastily exhorted her against it.

These stallholders were entirely aware of the City Lord's Manor's attitude; if the Manor truly intended to intervene, they would never have allowed this fellow to peddle counterfeit goods here so brazenly.

His hands moved in a rapid, continuous blur, and a pale blue barrier of light abruptly manifested across the clear sky, enveloping everyone securely within.

At this very instant, the two forces collided, battling amidst a flurry of flowing light and sword qi, the fury in Zi Han's eyes burning ever deeper; at this moment, he finally understood how the Blood Empire had earned its moniker—an empire built upon endless slaughter, where a single soul's ascension to godhood left a sea of corpses and blood in its wake.

"A fine assault, though it is not necessarily I who shall perish," Jiang Yuxuan laughed heartily, unleashing the Dragon-Elephant Ancestral Fist with a strike like a wild elephant displacing a mountain.

"How did you come to possess this dragon scale?" King Yazi took a deep breath, striving to compose his agitated emotions.

Suddenly confronted by the busty maiden's inquiry, Tang Mo quietly realised that he was now a successful man who owned both a house and a car. In an instant, he felt that her agreeing to this marriage proposal should not pose much of a problem.

Moreover, the reason Li Mei cared so deeply about the duration of time she had spent in Li Erlong's embrace was that she had always harboured a fierce aversion to being touched by men, yet Li Erlong had thoroughly shattered that boundary and taboo.